Sentence examples for toothless that from inspiring English sources

If these policies don't seem to have riled many feathers or appear a bit toothless, that's probably a good thing.

Perhaps just as interesting, Romney has demonstrated that the press is relatively toothless — that a candidate who is willing to take the heat for a while can outlast the media.

It was just a shame that the UK's new law on that issue is so toothless that any tax cheat could walk round it without any fear at all of that fact being discovered.

Ken Morris, a former Wall Street executive who began his career in the brokerage industry in 1979, said that he considered the exchange a toothless watchdog that protects its member firms.

Emery admits that the CCRB was previously a "toothless tiger" that failed to garner respect from the police department, and consequently, "its recommendations were ignored, for the most part".

The toothless lion that roared again?

The best-known species have alternate, toothless leaves that are made up of three leaflets.

But it is a toothless body that avoids matters of royal prerogative, like where the nation's oil revenue goes.

Sure, the commission is essentially a toothless organization that has no power to prosecute or issue subpoenas.

Every year for more than a decade, Brinkley recounts, donor organizations and states made toothless pleas that Hun Sen pass an anticorruption law.

"Blacksmile" opens the show with a wide, toothless grimace that might also be faceless, depending on how you read the modeled yellow area around it.