Sentence examples for toothless one from inspiring English sources

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Under Yeltsin, at first we were a young democracy to pat on the shoulder; under Putin, we again became the empire of evil, although a toothless one.

"There remain some concerns over how efficient HMRC can be in maintaining those safeguards, as well as whether this initiative is in fact a toothless one that will make no difference at all to collecting taxes owed.

The summit sought to make progress on a new ASEAN human-rights body but the Burmese said it must not have powers to monitor or investigate abuses only a toothless one would do.Singapore's prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, reminded ASEAN leaders that they had, in 41 years of summitry, honoured only 30% of the fairly modest agreements they had signed.

Unless you believe the GOP can pull off some sort of convention heist, Corker's demand is a toothless one.

He had become an old lion now, but not a toothless one — and he was still The Chairman.

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He has been hit by a recent cabinet revolt over austerity measures and criticised in a book by former first lady Valerie Trierweiler, who claimed the Socialist leader despised the poor, labelling them "the toothless ones".

He was toothless, with one eyelid stuck shut.

However, in private, according to his ex, the president mocks the poor and, echoing a 16th-century French proverb, a man without money is like a wolf without teeth, calls them "les sans dents", the toothless.' No one here cared much about his trysts with Gayet or his bad behaviour towards Trierweiller but people do care about this.

One toothless toothpick fiend explained to me that he was only addicted to Barcardi and "dead white men on green paper".

I can count on one finger how many times I've remembered that I had a job to do when my kiddo was toothless, sleeping and dreaming of greenbacks for a tooth he outgrew.

Aaron Roxby of Collider described "Simpsons Bible Stories" as his least-favorite trilogy episode, and wrote "Considering that, in earlier seasons, the show had some of the most thoughtfully edgy religious humor on television, this one feels surprisingly toothless".

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