Sentence examples for will be toothless from inspiring English sources

If Europeans refuse to consider force as a last option to support diplomatic efforts, analysts believe that the European Union's foreign policy will be toothless.

And if he doesn't, Labour will still be so damaged that it will be toothless as an opposition for years to come.

Despite criticism that market regulation will be toothless unless it is enacted globally, the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, on Tuesday proposed extending a ban on what the draft legislation called "certain transactions that amplify the crisis".

Doctors say these have been the only successful protections against doctors working too many hours each week and suffering burnout, and believe that alternative safeguards proposed by the Government will be toothless.

American legislators would find this more palatable; so would developing countries, which fear that internationally binding commitments could be used as justifications for imposing tariffs on them.Opponents of this approach complain that unless the targets are internationally binding, and there is a compliance mechanism to enforce them, any global agreement will be toothless.

Many feel that Wada will be toothless until the funding increases.

Therefore it is only appropriate that it is placed under the government department that oversees the prosecutorial system.The ACA will not be "toothless": about 150 of its agents will have the status of police, it will investigate corruption cases exclusively and will be able to carry out corruption prevention work in the ethics offices of central and local government agencies.

Then the publishers' grip on the reins of power will be revealed and the tiger will be shown to be toothless after all.

The government has already determined that the reformed second chamber will be as toothless as the current one (which has limited power to delay and revise legislation).

With the Supreme Court's ruling dissolving Parliament and the military's declaration curtailing the presidency's authority, Mr. Morsi will be a toothless figurehead under the thumb of an authoritarian military council that doesn't seem likely to relinquish power anytime soon.

Anticipating the victory of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi in the election Sunday, Sara Khorshid, an Egyptian journalist, wrote in IHT Global Opinion: "Mr. Morsi will be a toothless figurehead under the thumb of an authoritarian military council that doesn't seem likely to relinquish power anytime soon".