Sentence examples for toothless resolution from inspiring English sources

In October, the Security Council failed to pass a toothless resolution condemning the violence, in the face of a rare veto by both Russia and China.

But if she winds up with a toothless resolution, it could be an embarrassment, setting the tone for the rest of her ambassadorship.

It passed the toothless resolution last month, overruling a veto by Mr. Jukowski, who has argued that fighting the state will only prolong its short leash on the city.

When Russia and China refused to sign on to a toothless resolution condemning Assad and calling for him to step down early this year, Hilary Clinton called their action (or inaction) "Despicable" and Susan Rice said that any further bloodshed would be on their hands.

Half of CCAMLR's member countries insisted that the proposal was withdrawn, and more toothless resolutions adopted instead.Yet although the toothfish was not listed, the fact that it was discussed at all is seen as an extension of CITES's influence into activities that are big business.

In fact, if the United Nations was the New York State Senate, instead of passing a semi-toothless resolution, the Security Council members would have started locking the doors on each other and arguing about whether France could be counted as part of a quorum if its delegate just walked across the room to get a cup of coffee.

In pushing through a unanimous, albeit mostly toothless U.N. Security Council resolution, Washington has positioned itself expertly.

The Democratic leadership, meanwhile, instead of hammering Mr. Bush, has busied itself behind closed doors, producing a toothless, loophole-ridden resolution that showcases the party's generic antiwar stance while trying to establish troop readiness requirements, benchmarks for Iraqi progress and withdrawal timetables.

Still, as toothless as all this reads, UN Resolution 1820 was a small step toward ending what Jan Egeland, the former United Nations undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, called recently "one of the biggest conspiracies of silence in history".

The Security Council resolution on Syria was dismissed as toothless, since it did not include an enforcement mechanism.

I brought the subject up with Tumuruu, a jovial and mostly toothless herdsman who, on the afternoon we visited, was monitoring his yaks through high-resolution binoculars.