Sentence examples for toothless rules from inspiring English sources

The Environmental Protection Agency has issued basically toothless rules under which the states give permits to any factory farm that comes up with a plan for handling manure, mainly by building larger lagoons to hold it.

Suddenly a toothless rule had fangs.

As a result, the unthinkable consequence of the toothless Brady rule will be that an innocent man is executed and the prosecutor goes unpunished for his misconduct.

The discredit to the court caused by the toothless recusal rule is now unmistakable, as it faces the most controversial legal matter in the state since the budget-repair/collective-bargaining case.

Britain, alas, has some of the most toothless data-protection rules in the developed world: the government recently rejected a plan to make reporting of breaches compulsory.

A low standard will make the new rule toothless and fail to reduce the number of marine mammals killed in fisheries that sell into U.S. markets.

Late Monday, a majority of the FCC's commissioners indicated that they're going to vote with Chairman Julius Genachowski for a toothless Net Neutrality rule.

"If the new arrangement turns out to be too toothless to enforce the rules, we'll be back to square one," said Thomas Klau, a political analyst and head of the Paris office of the European Council on Foreign Relations.

At the same time, it may not even be worth getting too upset over this latest setback given how toothless the Net Neutrality rules the FCC passed actually were.

But student advocates, who have spent the past few years trying to convince the Obama administration to crack down on poor-performing for-profit colleges, derided Thursday's rule as toothless.

But those rules are not totally toothless.