When he signed it, Clinton complained that the reimportation measure had no teeth.
But without the threat of tighter sanctions western policy has no teeth.
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It's going to be a watchdog with absolutely no teeth.
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It's a noble effort, with 539 signatories to date, but it has no teeth: no firm deadline for offsetting greenhouse gas emissions and no penalty for not doing so.
However, given their small size (two million of them would be needed to cover a semi-colon) their options are limited - no teeth to grab, no claws for fighting.
Yet Kyoto, in truth, has no teeth.
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But those recommendations have no teeth.
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No watching it limp away into the dark night, no gnashing teeth.
In 1968 over one third of the total adult population of the UK had no natural teeth, and only a small number of people of pensionable age had any teeth at all.
But a survey carried out in 1998 showed that only 13% of adults had no natural teeth - and over half those of pensionable age retained at least some of their natural teeth.
That means no tattooing a boxer's nose to make it more black, no braces for a pointer to straighten its teeth, no removing a basset hound's inner eyelid to improve its appearance.
The next day I felt pretty good and my teeth no longer throbbed when I breathed through my mouth.
It does their teeth no good, but otherwise seems to do little harm.
If your nails are dirty (male or female) or you have black bits in your teeth, no one is going to take you seriously.
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Back from their half term break, peers waste no time in sinking their teeth into the Health and Social Care Bill.
No wonder content creators grit their teeth when talking about the computer companies that the rest of the world is so enthralled by.
Why do I no longer need an antibiotic before teeth cleaning?
Do not confuse this with the seriously inconvenient condition known to the world as buck teeth (without which we would have no orthodontists, and no mortified adolescents with mouthfuls of rubber bands and wire braces).
No one goes through life without getting just kicked in the teeth from time to time.
First, finding a shade that's not dowdy nor too electric, that makes my teeth look whiter and my skin look alive, is no easy feat.
This dense little kernel is so potentially dangerous that some restaurants no longer sell cherry pies because if just one seed is not removed, teeth can get broken and a lawsuit could ensue.
If I was paid enough and if I was a scientist, I could probably tell you that there's no relationship between cigarette smoking and bad health, or sugar eating and bad teeth, or whatever.
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