Many worry that Pruitt's EPA will be a toothless one.
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His surprise at the trumpets and being toothless was hilarious.
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He said it had only issued toothless resolutions so far.
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But a toothless agreement need not augur further Chinese aggression.
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But some environmental groups criticized the new plan as toothless.
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OPEC had "become something of a toothless tiger," Eibl said.
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"We're not a bunch of toothless, uneducated miners," Christina said.
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This time, however, the special counsel's indictment is somewhat toothless.
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That white boy's gonna be toothless as my old granny.
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When he smiled, you could see his toothless purple gums.
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For nearly a year and a half, I was toothless.
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" Schilling has repeatedly targeted Warren, calling her a "toothless politician.
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Multinational organizations that represent Muslims are viewed as toothless entities.
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But the Trump Administration is about to render it toothless.
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Artist's depiction of Inermorostrum xenops, an extinct toothless dwarf dolphin species.
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A "blundering" FCA has been "weak, toothless and anaemic", lawmakers said.
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But, as with most international treaties, the BWC was rather toothless.
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" Food & Water Watch called the treaty "largely symbolic and wholly toothless.
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Similarly, Trump without a political movement will be a toothless loudmouth.
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Except at this point the amendment is both toothless and terrible.
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There is no good reason to render the sanctions toothless now.
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It's a very toothless law but the criminal sanctions are strong.
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Perhaps most stunning is the idea that many laws are toothless.
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My grandmas toothless friend Anastasia, can also enjoy sunflower seeds too.
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We love a personal redemption story, even if it's ultimately toothless.
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Some legal scholars argue that it might be toothless in practice.
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This is far from the only toothless ethics outfit in Washington.
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Courts have grown resistant to toothless settlements that don't compensate class members.
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She had the best laugh, a toothless laugh, which made me laugh.
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And for the multilateral rules-based system to become still more toothless.
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People from Appalachia feel like they're stereotyped as toothless, barefoot and uneducated.
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Even in its soft and fuzzy days, the EU was not toothless.
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The snout is completely toothless and beak-like, unusual even among drepanosaurs.
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Adam Shapiro, its head of campaigns, said the declaration was effectively "toothless".
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This alone has doomed the Paris agreement to be a toothless deal.
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The spitting, toothless, undershirt-wearing, dead-eye staring hillbillies were no different.
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Justice's interpretation of the executive order "renders (it) toothless," the judge wrote.
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In practice, Trump's order is so vaguely worded as to be toothless.
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But lax regulators and toothless regulations were only part of the problem.
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It's like Lucy meets a toothless Mr. Robot, in a good way.
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If that's true, the courts are toothless as a check on discrimination.
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Even such toothless criticism has largely dried up under the Trump administration.
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Democrats countered that any agreement would be toothless without such a provision.
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The result of these creative decisions is a Joker that feels toothless.
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The team was in disarray, hapless on offense and toothless on defense.
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The president can veto the rejection, which usually renders the law toothless.
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Here, his contribution is as toothless as the rest of the movie.
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The Federal Election Commission is a toothless organization that is widely flouted.
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Georgia has a government ethics commission but it's generally viewed as toothless.
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Set within this exhibition,"Toxic" feels vague and, because of that, toothless.
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Given that Hiccup and his dragon-rider friends are formidable opponents, the trappers enlist the help of legendary dragon-killer Grimmel (Amadeus' F. Murray Abraham) to take out Toothless, as he's apparently eliminated every other member of Toothless' species.
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Speier has called the system "toothless" — and conversations with staffers support her claim.
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He may be the Apocalyptic Beast, but he is also lazy and toothless.
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Its name, Inermorostrum xenops, means "defenseless snout"—a reference to its toothless constitution.
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In a generally toothless season, "Vipers" at least provides comfort in its ending.
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The reality, according to three well-placed sources: These words are fairly toothless.
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To call the show a sendup is misleading; as a spoof, it's toothless.
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But the commission, almost from its inception 40 years ago, has been toothless.
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"If the material is good enough, the tactic of review bombing is toothless."
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So does this all mean that California's strict new law is actually toothless?
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But for much of the law's lifetime, advocates say it has been toothless.
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Similar legislation recently failed in the Senate after Democrats panned it as toothless.
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It reforms the TSCA, which numerous stakeholders had regarded for years as toothless.
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A government watchdog on police abuse is regarded by most experts as toothless.
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I believed that the conventions of male identity were toxic but ultimately toothless.
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It's called cleidocranial dysplasia," Dustin tells the bullies, who have labeled him "toothless.
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They were stocky like rhinos, toothless and had tusks and turtle-like beaks.
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Maybe if I was further away, it would be a beautiful, toothless vista.
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LL: It is pretty toothless, you're right, that's also part of the problem.
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His dragon Toothless is lured by the charms of another, very attractive dragon.
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It belongs to a group of dinosaurs called oviraptorosaurs, which have shortened, toothless skulls.
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The toothless carp fish – which are plant eaters – voraciously feast on dead human skin.
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Maisel to name but a few — that are earnest without being cloying or toothless.
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If the play's first act is toothless satire, its second is rip-roaring farce.
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Examples of Access-Hollywood-style toothless criticism have piled up since Trump took office.
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But in 2005, Congress created a loophole that made these income limits effectively toothless.
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Advocates framed that decision as evidence that the original law was ineffective and toothless.
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Jokes written for the Weekend Update segment in particular are toothless, bordering on glib.
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When he reviewed it, Mr. Cordaro concluded that "it was basically toothless," he said.
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Then there's financial reform, which the left considers toothless and the right considers destructive.
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Hatchimals' hatching Toothless is something any "How to Train Your Dragon" fan will want.
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BLM's management of the nation's largest and wildest unit of public lands is toothless.
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They are silvery gray with tiny eyes, extremely large gills and a toothless mouth.
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Proof that the congressional Ethics Committees are toothless and more symbolic than anything else?
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On climate change, this process often results in the most tepid and toothless actions.
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The discovery of the toothless, baleenless Maiabalaena nesbittae could very well be this missing link.
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However misdirected the current ire, the multilateral system for restraining currency manipulation is indeed toothless.
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Indeed, the conservative "free speech" campaign isn't limited to a relatively toothless federal executive order.
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I HIGHLY recommend going in and getting your nose bit by a toothless baby pitbull.
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UPDATE: The now-deleted Donald Trump tweet was rendered toothless thanks to a copyright strike.
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Nor will America's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) be rendered instantly toothless by a Trump administration.
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What will count is what each country does at home, not a toothless international mechanism.
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Ms Mayer, and the company's toothless board, did nothing to resolve Yahoo's split corporate personality.
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A very toothless law The reasons behind child marriage vary from region, caste and religion.
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Let's face it, some toothless, blood-thirsty player probably deserved a couple of F-bombs.
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The unfathomable platform risk here makes Facebook's exploitative Instant Articles program seem toothless in comparison.
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The group is investigating several high-profile harassment claims but has often been called toothless.
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As it steadily ratchets up its provocations, America and its Saudi allies risk looking toothless.
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More often, "Our Cartoon President" manages to be mean and toothless at the same time.
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But Open Carry Texas' experiment suggests that their new open carry policy is largely toothless.
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It's none of those — a tame and toothless creature that is neither fish nor fowl.
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But his jokes are not toothless: His material can be bawdy, political and aggressively absurd.
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She is toothless but wears bright dentures, and is quick to laugh and tell jokes.
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Just as cringeworthy as Disenchantment's dated take on relationships is its toothless commentary on class.
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It's a charming document, but ultimately toothless: Language in the memorandum contains no legally binding obligations.
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Unlike the Arab League, a toothless talking-shop, the GCC created an economic and customs union.
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But the resulting animations are toothless, particularly compared to some of her much more pointed work.
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Once upon a time, "toothless" is not a word I'd have used to describe South Park.
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Yes, you see the corpses of toothless children and yes, you deserve to know that beforehand.
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" Toothless should honestly have been in GoT, because the chemistry between these two is pure ðŸ"¥.
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When it comes to overseeing Canada's cops and security agencies, the privacy commissioner is uncomfortably toothless.
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The multibillionaire ridesharing app was widely criticized for its CEO's toothless response to the immigration ban.
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We didn't want to be toothless, but we also didn't want to show anything too offensive.
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Net neutrality supporters, though, say the consumer watchdog would be toothless if the rules are scrapped.
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There've been a lot of "toothless products that existed in the last decade," Levchin told TechCrunch.
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Some Democrats scoffed at the change to carried interest, suggesting that it was a toothless measure.
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The staging is so vague as to be toothless; this opera demands a stronger interpretive hand.
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But in practice, this law is generally toothless in disputes between Congress and the executive branch.
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I knew my maternal grandfather, Pietro Fontanarosa, only as a toothless old man with a cane.
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"They want to portray us as all toothless, redneck tobacco chewers," Mr. Ancona said this month.
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For many, the ban seemed toothless if Canada were going to allow Americans to travel north.
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It was fun and kind of funny and entirely toothless; a triumph of commercialism over content.
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For a movement to have universal appeal, you argue, it has to become banal or toothless.
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His attendance had been widely anticipated as he had derided OPEC as a "toothless tiger" in 2014.
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For those hoping for more sweeping changes, "Amoris Laetitia" seems toothless, even if it is pastorally sensitive.
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It's got all the bite of an herbivorous tree frog and its messages are just as toothless.
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"It's toothless without subpoena power," said Kirkland, the leader of Greater St. Mark Church in Fort Worth.
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That said, current Justice Department policy counsels against indicting a sitting President, likely rendering this option toothless.
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If you read tech coverage a lot, you might be forgiven for thinking it's a little toothless.
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OPEC, which Mr Hamm once called a "toothless tiger", is successfully leading efforts to balance the market.
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When it comes to enforcing a subpoena, Congress isn't quite toothless, but its teeth aren't particularly sharp.
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Big Tech Is as Strong as Ever Farhad Manjoo says the so-called techlash has been toothless.
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The 18-year-old, toothless Chihuahua basically told a coyote to get off his lawn this week.
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The FTC has been completely toothless when it comes to the internet platforms....The FTC oversees advertising.
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We got an inkling this week: if investors come to believe that central bankers are toothless tigers.
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The "good behaviour" standard is rather toothless, as the case of Justice William O. Douglas illustrates best.
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But with their world so toothless, readers — like people in the book — need never worry about them.
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"You talk about a toothless politician," Schilling said on Fox Business Network's "Cavuto Coast to Coast" Wednesday.
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On the one hand, we are using FARA as a toothless attempt to combat Russian information warfare.
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The result of Bernhardt's changes will be to make listing under the act as toothless as possible.
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That could make the law mostly toothless, since shelter beds can be so hard to come by.
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"When witnesses refuse to answer, without Chairman Nunes enforcing a subpoena, we became fairly toothless," Quigley said.
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Like many of Trump's orders, it was a little more toothless than its announcement made it seem.
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This is the strongest statement among Republican senators, but it is as toothless as a baby's mouth.
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Thinking of Southerners as stupid rednecks and toothless hillbillies has become the last acceptable prejudice in America.
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Thinking of Southerners as stupid rednecks and toothless hillbillies has become the last acceptable prejudice in America.
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" The scene stirred some emotions on social media, with one person calling it a "completely toothless response.
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Critics say the council, which is stacked with conservative figures and unable to summon witnesses, is toothless.
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In a sharp critique of the international trade body, Zhou Xiaochuan essentially called it toothless and ineffective.
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This new species, found in China's Guizhou Province, did possess a toothless beak, another key turtle feature.
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Toothless, thought to be the last of his breed, meets a female counterpart and is quickly smitten.
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That's assuming politicians, catering to countless constituencies, don't exempt so many routes that congestion pricing becomes toothless.
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Given what he wrote in Obergefell, it is hard to see Justice Kennedy agreeing with the toothless standard
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Top and bottom views of the remarkably well-preserved Maiabalaena nesbittae skull, an ancient species of toothless whale.
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Dress up as Toothless the dragon (from Dreamworks' How to Train Your Dragon) complete with wings and claws.
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But against a toothless police force and politicians on both sides engineering violence, even he cannot do much.
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So, piranhas are never toothless even though they are constantly replacing dull teeth with brand new sharp ones.
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He called the judiciary a "cowardly institution", the national football team "badly brought-up kids", the poor "toothless".
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And as the example of the skiing equipment shows, even the sanctions currently in place often prove toothless.
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If regions are legally toothless inside the EU, there are other ways for them to flex their muscles.
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When my grandmother finally turned to look at me, she gave me her brand-new toothless-baby grin.
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That leaves Money Monster fairly toothless as an indictment of Wall Street, America, or capitalism as a whole.
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The INCB is largely toothless and — aside from issuing reports — there's not too much it can actually do.
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Recode Decode with Kara Swisher: Apology letters, "decency pledges" and press releases are toothless substitutes for real change.
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Indeed, 11 GOP senators refused to even vote in favor of a toothless censure of his trade policy.
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You probably haven't heard of Ching Hai, because she's pretty toothless as far as cults of personality go.
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Human rights groups say that that body is toothless and that its work falls short of international standards.
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Toothless laws undermine people's faith in their government — and create all kinds of kindling for mistrust and anger.
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"The Cockroach" is so toothless and wan that it may drive his readers away in long apocalyptic caravans.
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The job was a mostly toothless, and often thankless, one, but Warren became a kind of political star.
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The senator has taken fire across the country for his toothless response to the shooting, calling it 'inexplicable'.
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The EU's largely toothless asylum body may be given more powers to adjudicate claims, helping to relieve national agencies.
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That when they rattle off terms and courses like Wireshark and Snort and OSI, they aren't debating toothless theoreticals.
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The youngest member of the royal family flashes a toothless smile with his hand held up to his mouth.
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The song crescendos, and Barrett's forever-young glare slowly distorts into the laughing face of a toothless old man.
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But President Nicolas Maduro and the pro-government judiciary rendered the congress toothless by striking down all its measures.
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Following a brief and, ultimately, toothless investigation, Brett Kavanaugh now sits on the Supreme Court, and I feel terrorized.
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Iceland played their typically organized game, while England put in one of the most toothless displays I can remember.
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The economic sanctions were so narrowly targeted they were "practically toothless", says Awet Weldemichael of Queen's University in Canada.
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They had parrot-like heads and toothless beaks, and some sported head crests, much like modern cassowary birds do .
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Sputnik's journalists say they are simply providing an alternative to the bland, toothless coverage offered by domestic news outlets.
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Some critics have argued that this counts for little, since the new constitution is expected to render parliament toothless.
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The iconic moment from Mark Zuckerberg's Senate hearing yesterday came before he faced toothless questions from profoundly uninformed senators.
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The 2016 bull argument, for the moment, seems a bit toothless: slightly better global growth, and U.S. keeps improving.
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It was only when Hardy was late for team meetings that the Cowboys' toothless threats to discipline him surfaced.
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Having been dubbed "toothless" by lawmakers, its effectiveness and potential role in preventing corporate failure is now under scrutiny.
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The really good stuff is in there too, from meeting the siblings to playtime to those adorable toothless smiles.
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Either the measures are ultimately toothless, or the administration simply can't get any meaningful policy past the finish line.
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But I've never seen a better example of it than the Clinton campaign's shocked, toothless condemnation of a frog.
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But all the Justice Department typically does in the face of corporate recidivism is merely increase the toothless fines.
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Any observer of global affairs might note that broad, multinational agreements are difficult to negotiate and yet frequently toothless.
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So the (now toothless) mandate remains on the books, as does Medicaid expansion for the states that accepted it.
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But a Trump-backed, Republican-led FCC could simply stop enforcing the net neutrality policy, rendering it essentially toothless.
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So why did Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-New York, spend time working to pass a toothless measure?
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And, ultimately, it's hip-hop's musical form and social context that make Coloring Book's escapism refreshing rather than toothless.
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Clinton was "toothless" and "lackluster," and they expressed disappointment that she had not mentioned alt-right leaders by name.
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Citizens of European Union member states are voting in elections for the mostly toothless, but symbolically significant, European Parliament.
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Last year, the Giants started 0-5 in part because of poor offensive line play and a toothless offense.
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Along with agricultural workers, they're still excluded from the (now toothless) Wagner Act that used to protect union rights.
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Without a means to enforce labor rights, the original, toothless NAFTA wasn't worth the paper it was printed on.
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But is she on the level, or is Grimmel, who has Toothless in his sights, using her as bait?
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A photo of Jonathan circulated online, putting the face of a toothless, grinning boy to yet another school killing.
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The plan was initially dismissed as a toothless gimmick, one that would do little to advance the #MeToo movement.
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They called the FRC "toothless" over its handling of the BHS audit, and the watchdog's powers are being independently reviewed.
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But rather than making the bill toothless, this narrow drafting may have done the anti-revenge porn movement a favor.
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On the big screen, Cumbuka best known for playing the "Toothless Gambler" in the 1989 Eddie Murphy comedy Harlem Nights.
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Opponents of the law are already preparing to challenge the measure in court (Arizona's law was gradually rendered almost toothless).
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Still, some lawmakers and technologists have perceived some of Twitter's efforts to clamp down on terrorist-related posts as toothless.
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But Koo notes the government will not investigate news shared on messaging apps like KakaoTalk which renders the crackdown toothless.
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In this case, the filmmakers try to innovate largely by making the movie as toothless and easily digestable as possible.
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He is also slimming down the unwieldy and toothless board of directors, even placing an activist investor on the board.
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We think he looks exactly like Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon, so now the name fits even better.
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We've talked about how the Paris agreement is toothless, but do you think an international agreement like this should exist?
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But buried inside Menu -> Settings & Privacy -> Your Time on Facebook, the toothless feature we'd previously scooped isn't doing much good.
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But the jokes are pretty toothless, and he spends much of it with an ain't-that-the-darndest-thing look.
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Activists have called Pelosi's plan to revive the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming a "toothless" proposal.
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The Nazi "party" had perhaps 200 members at its height, and was just as toothless as Spencer's National Policy Institute.
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Aside from outraged words of protest or toothless sense-of-Congress resolutions, none — not one — has suffered any serious consequences.
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Mr. Hollande habitually referred to the poor as "the toothless ones," she wrote — a devastating revelation for a Socialist president.
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Of the 215 eggs they found, 16 had embryonic remains, including one with partial wings and a toothless lower jaw.
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World leaders can hide behind toothless UN resolutions, or throw up their hands over the lack of an easy solution.
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And, isn't it time to demand legislation and legal recourse rather than Big Tech's toothless promises of industry "self-regulation"?
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" One of Brazil's favorites is a onesie that says, "Ladies: Today I'm bald and toothless, but someday I'll be rich.
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Jay Baruchel reprises his vocal role as Hiccup, a nerdy young Viking who's learned to ride his beloved dragon, Toothless.
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He remembers one guy in particular, a toothless addict who had been in and out of jail his whole life.
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At this point, release of the tax returns would be a vengeance victory at best and toothless evidence at worst.
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The code itself is considered relatively toothless by many Indigenous activists, but at least it operates as a minimum standard.
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Against an authoritarian president who seems desperate to run out the clock before Election Day next year, it's virtually toothless.
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The Office of the United States Trade Representative, which has traditionally focused on promoting trade, has been toothless in response.
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And they fear that the process for enforcing those protections will be as toothless as they were in earlier agreements.
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Though the genre has never been particularly biting, the attention being paid to producing viral videos has made it increasingly toothless.
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The Asian Civilisations Museum's latest exhibition is a toothless interrogation of Sir Stamford Raffles, one of Southeast Asia's most notorious colonizers.
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They even helped inspire the look of the main character Toothless in DreamWorks Animation's hit "How to Train Your Dragon" movies.
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Uncertainty about the scope of the report's recommendations is matched by criticism that such policy documents are, at this point, toothless.
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Unlike the show, I have picked sides and feel good about it, making the show's apolitical stance ring empty and toothless.
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The act, much of which turned out to be toothless, also asked the government to create a "reservoir of public employment".
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The EU has been working for more than a year on the common blacklist that would replace largely toothless national lists.
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Lawmakers have called the FRC "toothless" over its handling of the BHS audit and the watchdog's powers are being independently reviewed.
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Like fellow Oviraptorosaur Baby Louie, it strutted around on two legs and and sported a toothless beak with ridged chewing surfaces.
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But that's vulnerable to a veto by President Trump — a problem that this toothless bill, if it passes, likely wouldn't have.
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There's been a conscious rejection of the twee, toothless banter that has rotted mainstream FM shows previously lauded for their bite.
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Republicans may well end up pursuing the sort of strategy Jonathan Bernstein outlined: Pass a toothless resolution and call it reform.
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As my toothless cab driver battles the winds along Flamingo Road, she tells me she first visited Las Vegas in 23.
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Trilobites For years, scientists have disagreed about which species of baleen whale came first, and how the toothless species were related.
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But until now, the actual steps it's taken to change federal policy to crack down on "sanctuaries" have been relatively toothless.
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By proposing to empower a toothless advisory body, President Vladimir V. Putin set off new speculation about his long-term plans.
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It looks a bit like a toothless beaver, but instead of a nose, it has what looks like a rubber flipper.
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If Iran is at fault, and Trump does nothing, he will look like a paper tiger who makes toothless military threats.
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A toothless I.R.S. will encourage more tax evasion, and more tax evasion will create more distrust between Americans and their government.
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But sloppiness that led to 211 turnovers, a lethargic offense and a toothless defense doomed the Mavs to a sixth consecutive loss.
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The development from toothy juveniles to toothless and beaked adults probably let dinos young and old live together without competing for food.
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Minor adventures ensue, but mostly, Toothless meets a female of his species for the first time and starts trying to woo her.
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It's unclear why Grimmel hates Toothless so much or why he doesn't take any of his multiple opportunities to kill the dragon.
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Harington did a fake audition for an "Untitled Fantasy TV Drama" along with his How to Train Your Dragon co-star Toothless.
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Due to toothless legislation and Native Americans' economic and political disenfranchisement, counterfeiters continued to produce misleading goods despite attempts to strengthen laws.
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The site of the battle of Waterloo, which left over 50,000 dead, was said to have been left toothless within 24 hours.
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His lipless, toothless mouth agape, his hollow eyes aslant, he stared into an audience that packed the Royal Horticultural Hall in London.
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While losing a pet is always hard, Mulroney understands that it was time for the blind, deaf and toothless Maverick to go.
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If your pup has a cute, toothless grin, this member of the Stranger Things crew might be your go-to get-up.
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Unfortunately the IG has no prosecutorial powers and the office is relatively toothless when the offenders have already been fired or resigned.
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Why this matters: These orders are directions to write a study and a plan, so critics could safely describe them as toothless.
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The Europeans, who had been cut out of the talks, derided the deal as toothless, but Mr. Obama learned from the experience.
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This Requiem is prevailingly gentle and meditative, more Brahmsian than Verdian in mood, but by no means toothless or lacking in drama.
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Once he breaks out of the shell, the little Toothless makes noises, moves his wings and ears, and his eyes light up.
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" Last March, Doctors Without Borders wrote an open letter expressing its "concern and disappointment" about CEPI's "vague, toothless and weak new policy.
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The result is a New York that doesn't feel quite like New York, and a revolutionary whose quest for revenge feels toothless.
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While the act called for the federal government to cease actions that could be detrimental to Native culture, it was largely toothless.
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One might expect satire to thrive with such an outsize figure in the White House, but Trump comedy has felt strangely toothless.
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But the Joint List was also supported by Jewish leftists who felt that the country's traditional left-wing parties had become toothless.
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Though the Colombians survived without him against a toothless Poland attack in their second game, Sanchez will be crucial in slowing Senegal.
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The character is an amiable-to-the-point-of-toothless sendup of Smith's celebrity persona and many of the roles he's played.
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Republicans criticized the Democratic-led effort as toothless, noting that it is non-binding and therefore will not reach the president's desk.
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Thompson ran Britain's tax collection authority before taking up the FRC reins last year to overhaul what lawmakers called a "toothless" watchdog.
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"Let's be clear," said Peter Saunders, a Briton who was forced off the Vatican's child protection panel for criticizing it as toothless.
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Sinclair's critics, including Free Press' Aaron, worry that warning could prove toothless in the face of arrangements like that proposed with Williams.
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Her thesis is simple: at some point, feminism lost its political moorings; it became vapid and toothless in its quest for universality.
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I mean, a lot of people do feel a lot of tech boards are toothless, like around Tesla and the SEC stuff.
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But when their community is threatened, Hiccup and Toothless must embark on a dangerous journey in order to protect their beloved home.
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They should have doubled their advantage when Jorgensen flashed a header wide as Australia looked ragged at the back and toothless up front.
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"My guess is he's making it toothless on purpose so he looks good to his constituents without doing so much harm," he said.
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"You might think a toothless old cat this old in failing health would just want to be left alone," says a video caption.
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Critics of Hasina's government say she has failed to rein in extremist violence by failing to defend secularism and carrying out toothless investigations.
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And yet, when the movie hit theaters, it was dismissed by critics as formulaic, toothless — adolescent, in the worst sense of the word.
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His choices to lead the EPA and Department of Education support policies that would render their own agencies toothless or see them eliminated.
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But their plot gets much less attention than Toothless' frantic attempts to wing-waggle or silently soar his way into a female's heart.
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Yet with little to play for Argentina brought on Dalila Ippolito and Milagros Menendez midway through the second half, rejuvenating their toothless attack.
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Trump's own top-billed event of the day was a photo op in which he signed three basically toothless executive orders on crime.
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You may recognize 13-year-old Gaten Matarazzo from his role as the curly-headed, "toothless," voice of reason on Netflix's Stranger Things.
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After he befriends a black dragon he names Toothless, he changes his society and teaches his people to accept and work with dragons.
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When the president's party controls Congress, it will line up behind him; when it does not, he can just ignore its toothless demands.
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Scott Wiener, sponsor of SB 822, attempted to withdraw the bill and failed, and the committee went on to pass the toothless legislation.
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What could have been the very first vote with congressional blessings has in effect become a toothless rallying-cry for pro-statehood militants.
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You are caged in an ice box with 12 gigantic, toothless men with sharp blades on their feet and a taste for blood.
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Digital-age movements tend to be organizationally toothless, good at barking at power but bad at forcing ultimatums or chewing through complex negotiations.
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But even the book's mythologically justified racism, which had Gilead deporting black citizens because of the Curse of Ham, would seem toothless today.
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The high court may now be poised to render the Fair Housing Act toothless -- and, some say, dramatically narrow the definition of discrimination.
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Macron, on the other hand, simply ignored his domestic critics, as they held a toothless debate without any vote at the National Assembly.
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Exhibit 4: Trump's conviction that the Paris climate deal is "killing" the U.S., when in reality it's a voluntary and pretty toothless agreement.
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The scenes he'd constructed had the toothless satirical bite of circa 1950s MAD Magazine, when the periodical still emulated the comic-book format.
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The miniature Toothless was one of the cutest things I saw at Toy Fair in February and small enough to easily tote around.
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They detour to the dentist, and then end up in a Georgia motel, with now-toothless Granny alternately sleeping and groaning in pain.
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All of this has prompted lobbyists to hunt for advice about how to comply with laws governing that sphere, long viewed as toothless.
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Last Thursday the Philharmonic gave a rather toothless performance of Mahler's Seventh Symphony, part of Alan Gilbert's farewell to the orchestra's music directorship.
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Over the past two years, some Western governments (including the US) have criticized China over the camps, but the criticism has been toothless.
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Yes, but: The individual mandate is now essentially toothless, and it turned out not to be particularly effective when it was in effect.
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In one of the villages along the road, Blahyi greeted the local land commissioner, a toothless man in a torn Dolce & Gabbana shirt.
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He says Americans would be 'toothless' if they couldn't cross the border Crossing the border is a regular part of Carlos Flores' life.
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Russia also were toothless up front until Gerard Pique's handball gave them a chance to level with a penalty in the 41st minute.
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After 11 years together (they started when they were still in school), they've decided to go on a little hiatus and so Nash is free to explore his solo tendencies under the guise of Toothless—named after a Raymond Pettibon drawing which features a tiger biting off a boy's head with the caption, 'Even toothless, she can still bite off a boy's head.
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No disrespect to anyone living in Plymouth, but I went there when I was eight and got taken on a seafishing trip and watched a toothless fisherman smash the face of a squirming fish with a rock and since then I've thought of the place as an awful little town populated by toothless blokes who go around smashing fish up with rocks.
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But he sees another issue that could prevent Rihanna from barring her music from Trump rallies: that cease and desist letters are legally toothless.
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Jeezy's grill reportedly fell out during a performance last weekend, leading to a widely shared photo of the apparently toothless rapper grinning sans chompers.
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How to Train Your Dragon Toothless Kigurumi See Details You can even dress up as the comic strip cat turned Facebook sticker sensation, Pusheen.
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The Astros churned out All-Star infielders dating back to the Killer B's era, but never a shortstop better than the toothless Adam Everett.
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The Voting Rights Act is toothless with Jeff Sessions, seen by civil rights activists as a staunch supporter of vote suppression, as Attorney General.
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These organizations have been rendered illegal or toothless across half the country by legislation often supported or even proposed by ISPs and telecoms. Sen.
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With political pressure to deliver, some deals are likely to be toothless memoranda while others will re-hash previous orders, executives and diplomats say.
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On the same day the truce was brokered, Mr Assad promised to hold elections on April 13th for the toothless parliament that supports him.
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The resolution is short of a formal censure, which, although toothless, would carry the institutional weight of a chamber of Congress rebuking a president.
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The RIAA said existing rules, introduced in the late 90's in the Clinton administration, are toothless when it comes to protecting original content.
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Why is Earth Day so benign and toothless when the immediate threats to the planet—particularly to its most vulnerable populations—are so severe?
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Though this proposed revision might seem toothless, it has the potential to have significant effects given colleges' dependence on federal grants and student loans.
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Instead of being brutalized for his lack of cooperation, Suitter is time and again met with either bemusement or toothless exasperation from the cops.
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Democrats rejected a Republican proposal to ban the sale of firearms to people on a government watchlist as toothless and conservative Republicans opposed it.
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But the Hatch Act is ultimately self-enforcing, and toothless if the president chooses to ignore warnings from White House lawyers about possible violations.
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The survey suggests that people want "fair and equal" standards, which sounds like a great idea unless the standards in question are equally toothless.
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If an eight-member court was deadlocked or toothless, it turned out that a seven-member court was prepared to take a major step.
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But the root of the problem isn't Davidson; it's an SNL writers room that's toothless when it matters and ruthless for the wrong reasons.
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Andorra, however, were toothless and Gomes saved them again on the half-hour by tipping Raphael Varane's fierce 30-metre shot over the bar.
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For one, the framework would strengthen the budget resolution, which currently functions too much like a toothless messaging document instead of a real plan.
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And in what truly makes the Board toothless, Facebook only has to take the Board's guidance on changes to policy going forward under consideration.
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"Tiburones" is a critique of "West Side Story," and the legitimate question it asks, in a toothless way is: Who are the real sharks?
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Viewers who grew up with the "Scream" franchise, or with the toothless array of "Saw" films, will doubtless fidget and sigh at such ambivalence.
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The internet-famous cat Lil Bub, known for her toothless appearance and tongue permanently hanging out of the mouth, died unexpectedly over the weekend.
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"Even it is fairly toothless in the end, it will be a weapon that OMB can use to harass agencies and slow regulation," Freeman said.
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For all their slick passing, the Matildas proved quite toothless in the area, having managed only a single shot on target by the hour mark.
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"The senator has taken fire across the country for his toothless response to the shooting, calling it 'inexplicable,'" Ruby-Sachs said in a press release.
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"Once farmers realize laws are toothless, then they could cultivate GM soybean, corn and other crops," said one official, who asked not to be identified.
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Dawson's stumbles are a consequence of his generally toothless approach to Jake Paul, one that has come to define the series, for better or worse.
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In our world only the toothless group of birds (Aves) survived among the dinosaurs (remember, all birds are dinosaurs, but not all dinosaurs are birds).
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Rumor has it before this toothless tot was singing her heart out for sold-out crowds she was just another grinning gal in London, England.
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This will be a new world for Merkel, who has grown accustomed to cozy coalitions and toothless Bundestag opposition during her 12 years in power.
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Yet far from a toothless declaration, the Paris Agreement is designed to control U.S. and global energy markets, policies, and infrastructure for decades to come.
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In the Colorado bill, you can see pretty toothless penalties maxing out at $300 or $85033 and up to 30 days in jail crossed out.
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"The IRS is already a toothless watchdog when it comes to overseeing nonprofits," said Robert Maguire, political nonprofit investigator for the Center for Responsive Politics.
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He seems to understand that charges of racism are essentially toothless, because the bar of proof is now so high that it's impossible to clear.
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The nation can ill afford a toothless watchdog of our nation's ethical standards — standards that are the bedrock of the public's faith in our government.
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Sid, an ex-Aryan Brotherhood member with a bald, tattooed head, mustache, and toothless mouth, was pushing Whitey's wheelchair around, hovering over and hoarding him.
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Whatever happens in the Manafort case, the lobbying industry saw it as a giant neon sign that FARA can no longer be dismissed as toothless.
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Then, starting in 22013, two fatal crashes in quick succession brought public scrutiny and withering criticism to the unit for its incomplete and toothless investigations.
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Several officials on the financial control bodies also have said privately that their reputations could be harmed if their work is seen to be toothless.
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An executive order that promised American steel would be used for energy pipeline projects was toothless, as most of the purchasing had already taken place.
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This toothless, blonde kid grew up to become a talented entertainer with two Emmys and a New York Times bestselling author title on his resume.
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Ru ushered in the runway challenge, titled simply, "Feathers," which released a flock of toothless avian puns from the judges that largely did not fly.
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Companies could face lawsuits over perceived failure to live up to their ethics guidelines, and corporate boards could devise toothless rules to satisfy such requirements.
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Hamm, who called OPEC a "toothless tiger" in 2014, has begun encouraging fellow shale companies to focus more on profitability and less on profligate production.
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The result of these creative decisions, however, is that whatever power Joker, as a pop culture icon, might wield, Joker, as a movie, feels toothless.
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Even with their support, the measure is likely toothless — it may not pass the Senate, and even if it does Trump can just veto it.
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Russell Wilson threw for a toothless 245 yards, and his interception on the Seahawks' final drive sealed his team's fate in the 28-12 loss.
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While it is naive to assume indictments will stop all malicious activity, it is equally naive to assume they are toothless acts of name-calling.
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Handicapping the agency with additional budget cuts will make matters worse, experts say, emboldening scofflaws to take their chances against an increasingly toothless tax collector.
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Existing laws on sand mining should be adequate to regulate the trade, but as is so often the case in India, the laws are toothless.
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Things went from bad to worse for the hard-hitting Mladenovic, who appeared toothless in three consecutive first-round defeats at U.S. Open warm-up tournaments.
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Griffin's severed head was a toothless piece of sub-Banksy commentary that produced only fake outrage from right-wingers eager to paint Hollywood celebs as crazy.
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The passage of a toothless net neutrality bill in the liberal haven that is California's legislature would serve as a humiliating moment for the Democratic Party.
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These included labor rights rules unions said were toothless, rules that could have delayed generics and lead to higher drug prices, and expanded international copyright protection.
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The species of fish used—a toothless carp known as Garra rufa—are usually plant eaters, but in a pinch, they'll also eat dead human skin.
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If the sanctions order in the Chabad case ends up being toothless, he said, it could affect how other countries respond to future US court orders.
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Some Republicans have long hoped to turn the FCC into a toothless management office, and these early actions demonstrate Pai's power to help them do it.
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One is to abandon the complacency about Mr Trump that, until Mr Baldwin took over in October, had rendered SNL's portrayal of him toothless and pointless.
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Last month MPs held debates on Brexit in the House of Commons, but as there was no binding vote afterward, the discussions were academic and toothless.
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The GDPR, as toothless as it is, is a wake up call to every spammer that ever slammed your email or followed you around the web.
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A compliant Supreme Court has left the new opposition-led National Assembly toothless and major marches in Caracas and the provinces have not led to change.
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It's a strange record, often toothless and superior while the world goes to shit, and their performance on last night's SNL didn't provide much more bite.
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What the articles describe is both unfamiliar and too familiar to us—a toothless version of the way that straight women behave sometimes towards queer women.
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Aileen would be out prostituting all night to make sure she could feed that stupid toothless Ty, because that's the only reason why Ty was around.
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They have played some nice soccer at times but a calamitous defense and a toothless forward line has left them with no points and no goals.
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Trump's most Bannonesque executive orders were crafted with crazed delusions but in toothless, vague language, and then passed to Trump with no counsel from relevant agencies.
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Its acceptance is a victory for excluding those who push hard against old tropes as much as for those who seek a toothless path to inclusion.
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But it quickly became clear — both when it was new and when an amiable revival opened on Saturday afternoon — that Mr. Eyre's take was pretty toothless.
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The Brahms Double Concerto that opened the concert, with Gil Shaham as violinist and Alisa Weilerstein as cellist, was a little lightweight and toothless by comparison.
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We meet dozens of equally vivid fictional characters, among them a toothless Army sergeant who, midway through the novel, gleefully shows off his portable antique guillotine.
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Section 1373 specifies no punishment for noncompliance: It is a toothless tiger, passed by a Congress more intent on winning political points than punishing sanctuary cities.
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A toothless budget is still better than none at all, and perhaps a struggling committee is worse than acquiescing these decisions to executive or administrative power.
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MEDICINE HAT, Alberta — Kurt Remple, a toothless, unemployed, struggling alcoholic in Medicine Hat, the curiously named prairie town in Alberta, is a success story of sorts.
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Critics of the Obama-era deal say the agreement was toothless and that Iran was moving toward becoming a nuclear power in spite of the deal.
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Tyler's presence on the ship has been strange and toothless to me from the start, so again, this was a plotline I couldn't get invested in.
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But a handful of Republicans are expressing skepticism at Trump's move — and some reactions have carried more consequence than the usual toothless slap on the wrist.
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But rather than taking concrete steps to protect her and other students from further danger, the lawsuit alleges Stanford offered toothless solutions that it failed to enforce.
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While it is likely that the Chinese will surrender the drone after a few days, a toothless US response will only embolden further belligerence on Beijing's part.
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But the event has more often been toothless—the first modern comic to perform there was Bob Hope, and Colbert's successor was the milk-bland Rich Little.
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Matt Stoller, a fellow at the Open Markets Institute, sees the proposed positions as toothless, a sign that the current FTC isn't capable of reining in Facebook.
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But the vote was ultimately toothless after the resolution was stripped of the privileged status that would have invoked the War Powers Act to end U.S. involvement.
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But that office has been rendered largely toothless over the years, and enhancing its authority and ability to enforce ethics and conflict of interest rules would help.
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That might be why Suburbicon, which attempts to illuminate the connection between "great" and white as if this reveal were a surprise, comes across as so toothless.
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In a statement, the Brady Campaign did not specifically attack Hinckley's release but noted that gun control laws remain toothless more than three decades after the shooting.
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Pro-gun-control experts and some former law enforcement officials say that a lack of resources combined with vague and toothless laws make federal gun prosecutions difficult.
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As MIT Technology Review pessimistically wrote:University-led investigations are typically private, toothless affairs with few consequences for important faculty, especially those who pull in millions in grants.
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Last October, Facebook told TechCrunch that it works with NGOs and the local community in Myanmar to communicate its policies there, though its efforts seemed fairly toothless.
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A toothless Gypsy isn't feeling so up for being celebrated — until Dee Dee hands her the dentures that the dentist allegedly only made for Gypsy this morning.
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At the center of this drama is Walter Shaub, who as director of the Office of Government Ethics is tasked with enforcing Trump's now-toothless executive order.
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The firm already obeyed, on paper, the new governance code's requirements on outside board directors, which suggests that those at other firms may prove just as toothless.
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The Trojans already have matched their Pac-12 win total from all of last season, morphing from toothless and limited into arguably the conference's most athletic team.
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The rules were largely toothless when they were enacted because, according to the European Union charter, no member nation can discriminate on the basis of national origin.
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Many in Riosucio are expecting a repeat of the disappointments that followed a 2011 victims law that looked good on paper but, critics say, has proved toothless.
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Canada's long-awaited missing and murdered Indigenous women inquiry hasn't yet begun, but leaked documents outlining its mandate have already been panned by Indigenous communities as toothless.
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Along the way, he collected stray plastic bottles that had been left behind, depositing them at a Hobbit-like house that belongs to an ancient toothless woman.
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Contempt has become a toothless substitute for impeachment when the House is controlled by one party and the Senate and executive are controlled by the other party.
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In 2015, after Silicon Valley weighed in, the bill that the White House put forward was so toothless that almost every major consumer privacy group opposed it.
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You're a toothless, yellow old man without even the excuse of real grief for playing on your own credulity and that of a lot of other fools.
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Repeatedly calling the decision a "whitewash of justice," Emanuel said the deal struck between the actor and the prosecutor's office threatens to render hate crime laws toothless.
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And Camarena, while seeming eager to do what the team needs of him, already expresses surprise to his superiors at how toothless the D.E.A. seems to be.
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The UN Security Council has been widely criticized as toothless, having failed for years to find a political solution to the Syria crisis that broke out in 2011.
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Toothless and the gang are back in How to Train Your Dragon 3: The Hidden World with a whole new host of characters to fall in love with.
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Ludacris' ecstasy face looks as if he has his penis attached to a toothless prostitute who presented him with her clean bill of health before getting to work.
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"The burden for de-bunking fake news should not rest on people," she said, adding that the non-binding code of principles could turn out to be toothless.
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"How can a court be so toothless?" said Gertrude Angote, executive director of Kituo cha Sheria, a legal aid charity which is an interested party in the case.
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Both songs are, relatively speaking, toothless, with borrowing so casual as to be inoffensive — there is no play for authenticity, only an acknowledgment of the genre's universal appeal.
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It overhauls the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) of 1976, which lawmakers and advocates across the political spectrum have criticized as leaving the EPA toothless in recent years.
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And Francois Hollande was accused by his former partner of referring to the poor as "toothless", undermining his efforts to portray himself as a friend of the needy.
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Described by Kray biographer John Pearson as a "skinny, gnarled old boy" who resembled "an ancient toothless crocodile", Grandfather Lee had once been a famed East End boxer.
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Just a couple weeks ago, Trump signed a budget deal that didn't include funding for his famous but hypothetical wall after making toothless Twitter threats about vetoing it.
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Congress isn't totally toothless, though: It can still make new laws, control the purse strings of the federal government, and block Trump's ability to appoint new federal officials.
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Over time, however, Marinetti began to think that fascism had become toothless and reactionary, so he resolved to revolutionize the lives of his countrymen in a functional manner.
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Unfortunately, not only do we rarely take time to ponder their needs, but most of the ways we've been told to go about it are trite and toothless.
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The result was a toothless board, internal watchdogs with no authority to investigate top executives and, according to Nissan's new leaders and former employees, an imperious corporate leader.
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The crisis that has so far claimed more than 700 lives in the EU gives authorities in Brussels a chance to prove they are more than toothless bureaucrats.
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Baltimore finally took the lead with 5:20 left in that quarter on an easy seven-play, 13-yard drive through the toothless Steelers defense in 3:06.
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In practice, if not in constitutional structure, the modern presidency has near-total control over foreign policy while Congress, at most, occasionally passes a toothless resolution of disapproval.
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"'Not there right now' is just another one of the toothless statements that have become Ryan's hallmark since becoming Speaker," said DCCC spokeswoman Meredith Kelly in a statement.
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It's time to stop psychoanalyzing Trump's statements — and time for congressional Republicans to stop issuing toothless statements denouncing them — and take this seriously as the president's governing agenda.
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Even when these resolutions are approved, they are typically toothless since the companies don't need to abide by them, so they represent more of a symbolic victory for supporters.
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And so we'll see if the Democrats get in power if there's more regulation, but so far the U.S. and where most of this is taking place, is toothless.
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The toothless performance was Lady Gaga at her most decidedly apolitical; it could've meant anything to anyone, from the most zealous gun-toting patriot to her own Little Monsters.
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The Tennis Integrity Unit, the governing body meant to police these issues, has long been toothless and still "remains inadequately resourced and lacks adequate investigatory procedures," the report found.
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But the bill that Congress passed last week represents both a symbolic affront to Saudi Arabia (and other nations) and a toothless vehicle for any actual recovery against them.
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I mean, just the other day, you had some guy -- I believe it was from "POLITICO" who said everybody at the Trump rally was a bunch of toothless hillbillies.
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Radical reform of the sector was proposed last December to rebuild public trust in audit, including replacing the FRC, described by lawmakers as toothless, with a more powerful watchdog.
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But the POGO report notes that instead of imposing tough guidelines to protect networks and prod carriers to action, the FCC proposed toothless and voluntary guidelines preferred by industry.
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The Hollywood Reporter: 'Zoolander 2' Gets Critically Savaged Despite its relentless name-checking, Zoolander 2 functions strictly within its own goofy screen-comedy universe, so its satire is toothless.
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Or maybe we were just wrong to assume that the turd's gleaming smile was the result of expensive dental work, rather than a toothless hole in the emoji's face.
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People wore outfits that would get them censored on cable television, yet they were eating the kinds of food served at a birthday party for a picky, toothless toddler.
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It also supported the House bill, which didn't go far enough for the lawmakers leading the charge in the Senate and was seen as toothless by trafficking victims' advocates.
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For nearly four years we watched as America became a toothless tiger, forever huffing and puffing but never striking at Assad for the use of nerve agents against children.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Australia on Thursday became the latest country to tackle the scourge of modern slavery with proposed new legislation that campaigners instantly dismissed as toothless.
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The issue: Democrats' argument hinges on a lawsuit from Republican attorneys general, which argues that because the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate is now toothless, it has become unconstitutional.
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Because Facebook does not sell our data directly (or even want to), extracting promises from Mr. Zuckerberg that it not do so would be worse than a toothless remedy.
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American comedy has long depended on overgrown baby boys — Lou Costello, Will Ferrell — whose naïveté, entertaining misbehavior or outright stupidity suggests that men are finally as toothless as infants.
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A weed dealer in the shadows peddles "Purple Haze" for $25 as a near-toothless older man chases women with a seven-foot Burmese python draped around his neck.
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" Jonathan Moreno, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a medical ethics expert, said the decision not to report Dr. Tyndall "makes the medical board sort of toothless.
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"Johnson is a toothless prime minister who desperately needs a snap election to give some credibility to his Brexit strategy," wrote Kallum Pickering, a senior economist with Berenberg Bank.
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"Johnson is a toothless prime minister who desperately needs a snap election to give some credibility to his Brexit strategy," wrote Kallum Pickering, a senior economist with Berenberg Bank.
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According to scientists, the fossilized embryo is a giant oviraptorosaur, a large feathered dinosaur that weighed up to one ton and had sharp claws and a toothless beak. 13.
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He is big, strong, toothless, and has facial hair that makes him look like Bigfoot if Bigfoot hadn't left his apartment for three months after having been laid off.
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The NAB has in the past been described as toothless because of its low conviction rates, especially when it comes to powerful politicians, and investigations that last many years.
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In the end, Thunderstruck is a sweet and completely toothless smile, and a well-meaning attempt at a brand extension for Kevin Durant that just didn't quite extend the brand.
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Baby Charlie Crenshaw has gorgeous sky-blue eyes, a toothless grin and a captivating giggle – but that's not what most people first notice when they meet the 7-month-old.
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"But a snap election could be positive for markets: It would be better than a toothless minority government and could bring the business-friendly opposition to power, " he also noted.
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The fact that cities across America actually did the company's bidding was proof of just how feckless, toothless, and seemingly powerless government at every level in this country has become.
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Beyond toothless executive orders and one that has already been placed on indefinite hold by the courts, this administration isn't making policy, isn't laying out a plan for legislative action.
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"The set of four principles is toothless, lacks any implementation authority and is worth only the cost of the paper they are written on," Ms. Claybrook said in a statement.
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Get ready to read all about how "Toothless George" could've tried a little harder at naming the greatest democratic society since ancient Greece in Trump's inevitable tell-all memoir, everybody!
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Courts are likely to look skeptically on the EPA issuing a weak, toothless provision that will not reduce an air pollutant it has identified as a threat to public health.
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But even if the law is toothless, the fact that it exists is still a victory for the anti-GMO movement, and hence for yet another public backlash against science.
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With Ghost, it often feels like the theater of what they do exists as a toothless way to feed their own publicity, and that it all comes before the music.
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Location: Vintage Dog Rescue, Colorado This little lady is a nearly toothless, 12-year-old shih tzu who would make the perfect companion for weekends on the couch watching Netflix.
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The fact that cities across America actually did the company's bidding was proof of just how feckless, toothless and seemingly powerless government at every level in this country has become.
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She adds that while she strongly opposes the policy, she does know that ultimately the Goldwater rule is "somewhat toothless" and is merely an ethics policy, meant to guide professionals.
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Rather than making housing more accessible to right the wrongs of redlining, it was simply more paperwork for cities and the consultants who authored hundreds of pages of toothless assessments.
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Meanwhile, the Federal Election Commission is largely toothless, and it's hard to imagine how routine political messages, never mind campaign tech, could be regulated, let alone if they should be.
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Having also recently shredded the fuck out of Nirvana's "Lithium," his newest offering is a faithful rendition of "Salad Days" featuring a vocal clearly inspired by the toothless Viceroy himself.
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The commission's decision was not unexpected, given its reputation for being a "toothless watchdog," and more broadly because of the legal history of judges giving weak punishments for sexual assault.
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Passed in 2010, the same year Mr. Kobach was elected Kansas secretary of state, Arizona's S.B. 1070 set off a six-year legal battle that rendered the law largely toothless.
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Since our Federal Trade Commission seems relatively toothless in big tech acquisitions, methinks Facebook is going to face a lot of pain in the E.U. over the next few years.
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Behind these, in a sort of outer ring, stood the old men of the village, toothless, musty-eyed, their mouths open, their gray beards tickling the tops of their canes.
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Before Trump signed this tax law, Obamacare required most Americans to either buy insurance or pay a tax penalty; the 2017 law removed the penalty, rendering the mandate effectively toothless.
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Congress has perennially passed toothless "sense of Congress" resolutions that have reaffirmed 1995 legislation recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel but done little in the face of presidential waivers.
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When families of the victims called for an independent inquiry into the disaster, the presidential office and the ruling party agreed to their demands, but rendered the special commission toothless.
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To combat rampant corruption and nepotism, Nigeria should strengthen its toothless anticorruption bodies by adopting harsher penalties for unscrupulous officials and foster greater transparency by joining the Open Government Partnership.
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Russia: President Vladimir Putin prompted new speculation about his future role when he proposed constitutional amendments on Monday that would empower a previously toothless advisory council that he now leads.
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The bottom line: The offloading of enforcement to companies is a result of vague, toothless laws and weakened agencies like the FTC that would otherwise be in charge of enforcement.
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We're one day into the NHL playoffs and we already have our first toothless interview ... courtesy of San Jose Sharks star Joe Pavelski ... who scored a goal OFF HIS FACE!!!!
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He's turned toothless and pollyannaish when everyone else is gripping their armrests in fear; the information that paralyzes us flows off his back into some infinity pool in Hidden Hills.
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Oviraptoridae (not to be confused with oviraptors—that's a different kind of dino) are known for their toothless, parrot-like beaks, and in some cases, elaborate head crests known as casques.
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On the other side of the issue, some supporters of increased bargaining power for fighters see the Ali Act as a vague and toothless law: ceremonial at best, counterproductive at worst.
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Dustin, the toothless, lisping boy of the group, is Chunk 2.0 thanks to his sweet but clueless demeanor and his prioritizing of finding chocolate pudding even in the most dangerous situations.
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Whether that was a choice or a mistake was unclear, but the ensemble adjusted in a blink, shifting focus to his character, Toothless Anne, who speaks gibberish that everyone somehow understands.
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The VR story they engage with will take them on a five-minute journey into the movie's world, where they interact with other characters, including Astrid, Hiccup, Toothless, Hookfang and more.
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He co-chaired a so-called "task force" on bank crimes that did nothing but ink more toothless settlements and proudly proclaim fake headline numbers about fines from behind a podium.
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The right "to serve in public office" is downgraded to a right to "participate in public affairs" (ie, choosing which Communist Party-approved candidate will serve in a toothless local legislature).
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The targets are European carp, also known as koi: toothless, mud-sucking, bottom-dwelling fish that breed like crazy, destroy the habitat of other species and go unchecked by native predators.
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"The question will be if this is an executive order that's kind of like a press release and toothless, like a lot of his orders have been this year," Bacon said.
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While Trump's toothless legions of "Deliverance" extras proclaim their status as "deplorables", folks like Gonzales remember that Trump fired the first shot when he defined Mexicans as rapists, murderers and thugs.
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The curled-up posture is positively birdlike, and if Baby Louie had survived, it would have emerged as an oviraptor, a theropod with a parrot-shaped head and a toothless beak.
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Why it matters: Attorney General Jeff Sessions can insist that the administration's zero-tolerance policy is still in place, but without the cooperation of the Department of Homeland Security, it's toothless.
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But I warn you: You may begin to find network television toothless, as so many plots lazily circle around infidelity, the threat of infidelity, or humor based in tension surrounding infidelity.
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The original is set in a space station called Citadel, the sequel on a ship called the Von Braun, run by the sinister TriOptimum Corporation and a toothless futuristic United Nations.
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"We are at a watershed moment," Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the Democratic leader, declared Thursday, calling on Congress to overhaul its fairly toothless internal process for dealing with sexual harassment.
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Put those in a bag along with your toothless "thoughts and prayers" tweets for hurricane victims and dump them in the ocean just like you permit corporations to dump their waste.
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The Facebook post by the Bernard Brewery in Humpolec, about an hour's journey from Prague, features the likeness of a nearly toothless old woman with the hashtag #MeToo superimposed in white.
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The pact is not legally binding and was decried by critics as toothless because it lets signatories pick and choose guidelines rather than setting goals, and sidestepped the problem of overconsumption.
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Some former city officials said the investigation into the yeshivas was made toothless by political considerations from a mayor with close ties to the leaders of an influential bloc of voters.
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The researchers found that women who were toothless and who had had periodontal disease were at 46 percent higher risk for death from any cause than those without these dental problems.
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The mandate has been enforced with "a muffled bark and a toothless bite," said Thomas P. Miller, a health economist at the American Enterprise Institute and a critic of the law.
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All told, fact-checking seems pretty toothless when it comes to persuading citizens to change their impressions of a political opponent — even when the opponent is in the same partisan family.
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Since then, Maduro's government has gone after other opposition leaders, forcing them into hiding and further weakening the National Assembly, the only government institution controlled by the opposition, albeit a toothless one.
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Every time a contestant leaves, the toothless piano music plays and the show offers some platitudinous sentiment: They came, they saw, but they didn't really conquer, but that's going to be okay.
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Known for his outspoken views on U.S. energy policy and other matters, Hamm once referred to OPEC leader Saudi Arabia as a "toothless tiger" in the face of growing U.S. oil output.
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Hosuk Lee-Makiyama of the European Centre for International Political Economy, a Brussels think-tank, says they are toothless against China's "state-capitalist model", which is far more influential than was envisaged.
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231, which endorsed the JCPOA, lifted the ban on Iran's ballistic-missile activity entirely, replacing it with a toothless call for Tehran to refrain from doing so.
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Despite support from civil rights and religious groups, Carter refused to provide an enforcement mechanism for the legislation, which passed, but in a gutted, toothless form, just like the earlier Employment Act.
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As Mueller is well aware, FARA is a notoriously toothless law and has only been successfully prosecuted once since reforms crippled it in 1966 by allowing lobbyists to register after the fact.
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Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and former Treasury Department spokesman Tony Sayegh joined the White House staff to coordinate messaging, but the president's tweet underscores how toothless their efforts may be.
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Now is the time for Congress to actually do something inspired to get Beijing's attention, rather than dilly-dally with the toothless but "feel-good" Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act.
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One wonders why "Whitetail Deer Hunter" chose such a relatively toothless route, but one doesn't wonder too long, as it's the kind of movie you forget about 20 minutes after seeing it.
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The indictment was the subject of intense interest on K Street, where the Justice Department's enforcement of the foreign lobbying requirements under the Foreign Agents Registration Act is widely seen as toothless.
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Grandpa is an extreme example, but this loss of support and subsequent facial "shrinkage" (what the experts call it) doesn't occur only in the toothless, because teeth gradually change shape throughout adulthood.
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In March 2011, as the popular revolts spread through the region, more than 100 activists in the U.A.E. signed a petition calling for direct elections and reform of the country's toothless Parliament.
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This is not to render them toothless but to provide a mechanism allowing company policy to recalibrate at given points, and adjust to the fluidity of the internet and evolving social mores.
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Or is he content for his magazine to promote the toothless, status-quo "equality" of "opportunity" most tech leaders seem to have in mind when hawking "Big Ideas" like Universal Basic Income?
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Democrats dismissed the proposals as toothless and well short of the president's campaign promises to allow the government to negotiate drug prices for Medicare while promoting the importation of medicines from abroad.
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But the pain and embarrassment of my new face — a crooked nose and a toothless smile — didn't come close to what I felt when I discovered I was a lesbian at 13.
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It is not just that he is president in a hyper-presidential system, with a wide range of powers, a toothless and obedient legislature, no meaningful opposition, and sky-high personal approval ratings.
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The stock price rose despite news that the FTC had started a new investigation of the company related to antitrust, presumably because recent history suggests to investors that such investigations are essentially toothless.
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Senators can choose a toothless FCC that will protect huge companies, allow them to further consolidate, charge higher prices with worsening service, and a create bigger disconnect between broadband haves and have-nots.
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Del Potro, who had played a total of nine sets in the two previous rounds as Nadal cruised into the last four, ran out of gas and looked toothless against the Spanish juggernaut.
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I could see those ubiquitous Sri Lankan smiles -- from the toothless old accis (grandmothers) wearing fragments of flowered clothes saris, to the old men with red betel juice oozing out of their mouths.
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But as she went to present her son with a chocolate cake featuring the dragon Toothless' eyes around the edges, Garner found out the hard way that her son was already becoming embarrassed.
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The bigger danger is to Turkish online-news platforms, which have thrived by offering an alternative to the toothless coverage produced by mainstream outlets, and which will now be placed under RTUK's supervision.
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Oviraptors are an unusual group of bird-like theropod dinosaurs, featuring shortened, toothless skulls, and ranging in size from a turkey to nearly the length of an elephant, or 23 feet (7 meters).
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Pikuniku knows that you—trained on platformers since you were old enough to hold something without sticking it into your toothless drool-hole—want to climb anything climbable and interact with anything interactable.
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Colombian Nairo Quintana (Movistar), runner-up to Froome in 2013 and 2015, has been promising attacks but has been toothless so far and the other big names just do not seem strong enough.
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Crack is cocaine, and yet while cocaine is regarded as a casual party drug, crack users are seen as far more erratic, or even pathetic; as out-of-it, homeless, toothless, and desperate.
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All this busy-looking inaction and wild rot, the crushing executive pettiness and toothless bluster and whack-a-mole futility, is as familiar as it is strange, wherever in the world you are.
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Like most people, Daniel Ibrahim remembers exactly where he was the first time he came across a tiny, bug-eyed, toothless, limp-tongued cat called Lil Bub, the internet-breaking Queen of Cute.
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Abu Sin, whose nickname loosely translates to "toothless," has been video chatting with Crockett on YouNow, and their conversations are mostly giggling flirtations and teasing made more endearing by a constant language barrier.
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Trudeau's predecessor, Conservative Stephen Harper, established a Corporate Social Responsibility Counselor in 2009, but critics have said it is toothless as the office focuses mainly on facilitating dialogue between companies and affected communities.
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Muslim Advocates, a topic critic of Twitter's moderation efforts, said that while the change was a positive one, it may be rendered toothless, depending on how Twitter chooses to enforce its new policy.
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Related: Critics say Canada's inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women will be toothless NWAC had also called on the government to include engaging with the provinces and territories in the inquiry's mandate.
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But even she urged that matters be addressed in an obscure and toothless venue called "the Normandy Four Format," where Russia has a seat — and effectively a veto — while the U.S. has neither.
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"While some are calling for the FTC to enforce privacy, we believe the agency is toothless and has issued the equivalent of parking tickets to companies," Eshoo said in a call with reporters.
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Croatia's possession lacked a cutting edge but, with a draw enough to top the group, they had little incentive, especially as Iceland looked toothless until news of Lionel Messi's opening goal reached them.
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For decades, efforts to ensure chemical safety were stymied by an ineffective regulatory regime: the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) of 1976, which regulated household and industrial compounds, was widely regarded as toothless.
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"We plan to adapt the books as the books were written," said Tranter, in response to an audience question that referenced The Golden Compass being a little toothless in some of its discourse.
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The agreement — which prohibits either country from hacking businesses to benefit its own companies — has faced continual skepticism from lawmakers who believe it is too toothless to force China to keep its word.
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When Russians view these policies and others, like sweeping but so far toothless U.S. economic sanctions, they don't see American efforts to exact specific concessions or even to punish Putin and his entourage.
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Splayed out on a pink towel next to Ms. Xu was her companion, a toothless white Chihuahua named Maomao, who was burying his snout into a mound of torn-up hot dog pieces.
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As Toothless chases and tries to impress his female equivalent, they engage in goofy comedy routines and charming aerial ballets, both strongly reminiscent of similar scenes in Pixar's Wall-E, but visually impressive nonetheless.
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The latest Saturday Night Live served up a relatively toothless cold open set against the backdrop of yet another debate between Democratic contenders who hope to take on Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
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The California-based advocacy group Consumer Watchdog similarly abandoned work on Do Not Track about a year and a half ago because the recommended standards would be voluntary — so therefore, in its view, toothless.
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As officials hold a morning meeting under a golden bust of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam's first communist leader, a toothless former soldier, still in uniform, pushes his bicycle through a courtyard with peeling paint.
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Even as he ostensibly chases fame and success, he's always the toothless dork we met in the first few scenes, chuffed to be at the party and play a few songs while he's there.
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If it sounds like a lot like a toothless attempt at winning over younger users with a design method borrowed from the soulless dating app paradigm of our time, you would be quite correct.
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As The Economistsuggested in December, with analysis provided by Dan Altman of North Yard Analytics and data from Opta, Leicester are toothless when building slow attacks—but ruthless on swift counter-attacks (see chart).
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The senators responsible for this toothless political stunt have tried to frame their actions as an attempt to rein in executive power and respect the Constitution, but a closer look reveals that is nonsense.
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If Moore wins, it will be the latest proof of just how toothless the GOP establishment remains in the wake of its embarrassing rout at the hands of Donald Trump in the 2016 primaries.
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Harold Hamm, chief executive of Hess rival Continental Resources Inc, famously called Saudi Arabia the "toothless tiger" in 2014, saying the country's influence on global markets was diminishing, a statement that now seems misguided.
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Explorer With a face as creased as a walnut shell and a smile as gleeful as it was toothless, 4003-year-old Augustina Lamagril welcomed us into the small shop inside her adobe home.
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It's part of canonical heavy metal history now that, for example, without Reagan and his suffocating policies, 80s thrash metal would've been toothless and that 80s punk would've had far less to sneer about.
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Arlen is scrappy, and she eventually escapes the cannibals' clutches, making her way first on her own and then with the help of a scummy, toothless drifter (Jim Carrey) to a town called Comfort.
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GOP senators revised language repealing the individual and employer mandates to instead zero out the tax penalties of not complying with them — thereby rendering them toothless while staying in compliance with the Byrd Rule.
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My reading of that swastika as no more than a toothless warning — like my confidence that it would not apply to me for long — was an act of historical ignorance and naked racial privilege.
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If Thompson is soft on the Trump administration, the WHCA can claim a victory, while its critics' concerns will have further proof that the event is doomed to be a toothless and unfunny endeavor.
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The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has been criticised by lawmakers for being "toothless" in its response to failures at retailer BHS and construction company Carillion, which collapsed with little warning to staff and investors.
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On this point, Republicans note that the parliamentarian has ruled on the reconciliation bill that passed in 85033 that lawmakers could eliminate the penalty for not complying with the employer mandate, rendering it toothless.
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Once that played out, Manfred opted for a toothless penalty, suspending Preller for 30 days — a stretch that was over before the World Series even began — and taking no draft picks from the Padres.
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I think that you have to go back seven years to those discussions with the FEC to see where this problem began, and then ... HR: That's the Federal Election Commission, which is pretty toothless.
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A few hours later, he turned the Treasury Department's Congressionally-mandated and much-feared "Kremlin Report" into what observers called a toothless hybrid of Forbes Magazine's richest Russians list and an internal Kremlin directory.
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Happy Ending is ultimately a disappointment — a toothless, one-note story that chides upper-class white people for their insensitivity and obliviousness, in part by treating a series of mute, confused black refugees like props.
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That means even if Pruitt doesn't challenge the endangerment finding for carbon dioxide, which forces the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases, he can come up with a toothless regulation to replace the Clean Power Plan.
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On Monday, the Kremlin announced an overhaul of the Human Rights Council, already a toothless body but one that had on occasion spoken up for victims, including Ms. Prokopyeva, of Russia's often lawless security apparatus.
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In the third installment in the series, young Viking chieftain Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) has to learn that his identity isn't entirely bound up in Toothless, the dragon partner he befriended in the series's first installment.
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Democrats say the bill is toothless, and are pushing Ryan to allow votes on two measures -- one to expand universal background checks, the other to ban gun purchases to people on a terrorist watch list.
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The researchers, led by Elizabeth Martin-Silverstone from the University of Southampton, categorize it as an "azhdarchoid" pterosaur—a group of short-winged and toothless flying reptiles that represented the final phase of pterosaur evolution.
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An attempted preemptive strike on its nuclear holdings would be a catastrophic decision that would probably result in the death of millions of civilians, and sanctions and diplomacy are toothless without China being on board.
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Nor can it afford to pat itself on the back by making dramatic, but ultimately toothless, declarations that opioid addiction is a serious problem and one that needs more resources but they are not forthcoming.
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"We have a crisis that has to be dealt with, and that means we need a statute that is more than toothless," Mr. Squadron, a Democrat who represents parts of Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan, said.
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Now, in an odd nuclear safety yin and yang, while Japan's NRA strives to beef up its role as an effective, independent regulator, the NRC is backsliding towards becoming a cozy captive enforcing toothless regulations.
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The UKAD suspension, issued in May 2018, retroactively began almost a year before, in October 2017, and ran to October 2019, but during this period Molina fought twice in the US. The suspension was toothless.
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Ms. Lublin had girded herself for a grilling, but compared with Ms. Bliss's questioning of Ms. Dickinson, whom she would later call a "failed starlet," Ms. Lublin said her own cross-examination felt almost toothless.
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Many are angry about the FCC's dismantling of the popular Obama-era rules and believe that any bill that a GOP-dominated Congress can come up with will be toothless compared to the 2015 regulations.
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Tina Luongo, who leads the criminal practice at the Legal Aid Society, said that for victims of police abuse, the revelations about Officer's Pantaleo's disciplinary history only reinforced that the department's disciplinary system was toothless.
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And they found a weapon: the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, an obscure — and, for a long time in Silicon Valley, beleaguered and toothless — agency chaired by the secretary of the Treasury.
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I do not believe in the Talion Law, in a "tooth for a tooth" or an "eye for an eye," because, if we go there, we'd all end up toothless and blind in one eye.
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Eventually, some 5 million to 7 million years later, around 26 million to 28 million years ago, the toothless whales began to sprout baleen, facilitating yet another transition, this time from suction feeding to filter feeding.
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Related: Editor of Bangladesh's First LGBT Magazine Killed by Suspected Islamist Militants Critics of Sheikh Hasina's government say she has failed to rein in extremist violence by failing to defend secularism and carrying out toothless investigations.
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At the wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, nothing captured the joy and celebration of the day more than page boy Brian Mulroney's huge toothless grin as he walked into the chapel, holding Meghan's veil.
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Around the same time, Pete Makovicky, a paleontologist with the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago who was not an author on the study, noticed the toothless lower jawbone resembled one from another oviraptorosaur species.
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With nothing to study, critics say, the task force is toothless and able to provide only broad policy recommendations — the kind that experts would have been able to suggest without convening a task force at all.
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An outspoken critic of the Kremlin, Alexeyeva also served on the presidential human rights council — she quit the toothless advisory group in protest in 2012 but later rejoined it — and maintained a cordial relationship with Putin.
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Without the penalty that Congress eliminated last year, the ACA's individual mandate is "largely toothless" and not essential to the remainder of the law, said Ilya Somin, a law professor at George Mason University in Virginia.
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"A soon-to-be-toothless FCC, is handing the keys to the internet — the internet, one of the most remarkable, empowering, enabling inventions of our lifetime — over to a handful of multibillion-dollar corporations," she argued.
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But Ukrainian authorities have a patchy record on that score, and the wealth-declaration reform has been criticized by some lawmakers who want it either watered down or delayed, raising fears that it could prove toothless.
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You've got Trump-loving southerners, trans people, man-bun-wearing millennials, salty old blue-collar workers, toothless former meth addicts, and Youtube or Instagram-famous #vanlife influencers, and somehow, everyone seems to get along just fine.
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The administration is rewriting regulations intended to hold for-profit colleges and vocational programs accountable for whether their students can pay back their loans later on — and the Education Department's new version would be essentially toothless.
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As "normies" gained familiarity with "cuck" as an alt-right insult, the term began its toothless third stage of life as lefties playfully and sarcastically insult one another with it à la the "thanks, Obama" meme.
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Whether this Iran team have the firepower going forward to match the 2014 vintage remains a moot point after a toothless display against Morocco in their World Cup opener, which they won with a late own goal.
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In honor of April Fools', which will no doubt rain down a torrent of inane corporatized "pranks" and toothless media hoaxes upon us all, let's look at one of the few people to do online pranking right.
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Ben Mulroney usually has the cameras on him as a Canadian television host, but it was his three kids who stole the show at Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's royal wedding — including one viral (and toothless!) grin.
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Whether the laser or treat dispensing is worth the dough, really depends on your pet—I have a feeling a younger pup would have a better time with the Bites 2 than my toothless granny Daisy did.
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In those articles, federal agents complained that OCI managers forced them to pursue toothless cases involving mislabeled foreign-imported injectable drugs such as Botox, at the expense of cases with more potential to protect the public health.
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As the annual session of China's toothless National People's Congress got under way, the one-party state forbade the country's media from reporting on diverse topics including smog, the use of land for burials and delegates' wealth.
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But late Tuesday evening, Miguel Santiago, a California assemblyman and chair of the Communications and Conveyance committee, edited the bill to allow for gaping loopholes that benefit the telecommunications industry and make the net neutrality legislation toothless.
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In March, China's mostly toothless parliament passed a series of constitutional amendments ceding significant power to Xi. The Chinese government removed presidential term limits as part of the package, effectively enabling Xi to remain in office indefinitely.
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He recently persuaded his own legislature to set up just such a toothless oversight board in Puerto Rico, but he hasn't nominated its members because he knows that such an enterprise is futile: it has no credibility.
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Trump's comments came on the heels of the historic summit with North Korea, where Trump and Kim met to discuss the prospects of nuclear disarmament on the Korean Peninsula, coming to a historic, if relatively toothless, agreement.
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Legendary U.S. oilman Harold Hamm, who once called the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries a "toothless tiger," will step down as chief executive of Continental Resources and become its executive chairman, the company said on Wednesday.
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Throwing a bunch of speeches that made the same points again and again, and that is the entirety of the 14 hours the committee spent sitting there working through and rejecting attempts to make the articles toothless.
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"They have put the Department of Justice into a position of looking utterly ridiculous and toothless if it simply walks away from this type of false claim," said Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University.
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Believe me, if they added the smallest iota of value I'd consider thinking different, but the crazy toothless lady who kicks everyone that gets too close to her cardboard box hasn't made anyone's life better in a while.
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Enough people had listed their occupation as racist bile like "Jew Hater," their employer as "Jew Killing Weekly Magazine," or their field of study as "Threesome Rape" that Facebook's algorithm, toothless by design, compiled them into targetable categories.
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By peering into the rock, the researchers were able to identify the tell-tale signs of a toothless and baleenless whale—including a thin and narrow upper jaw that had no proper surface from which to suspend baleen.
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Trump's decision to lift sanctions that were already seen as largely toothless could deepen frustrations among lawmakers angered by the President's refusal to impose legally required sanctions on Turkey for its purchase of the S400 missile defense system.
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" Warren says the tougher labor standards in the new deal are toothless, the environmental standards are lacking, and it's "stuffed with handouts that will let big drug companies lock in the high prices they charge for many drugs.
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But it's likely to be changes to the Facebook and Instagram feeds that prioritize content you'll comment on rather than look at and silently scroll past that will contribute more to healthy social networking than today's toothless tools.
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Alongside the previous names, the Recorded team includes London MC Giggs; the toothless rapping mayor of Manhattan, Wiki; cosmic jazznaut Kamasi Washington; The Internet's soulful frontwoman, Syd; Blur and Gorillaz' man Damon Albarn; and a whole load more.
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The lawmakers referred to the Federal Trade Commission, the consumer welfare agency currently tasked with overseeing privacy issues, as "toothless" and accused the agency of issuing "parking ticket" fines to companies when they took advantage of user data.
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As more and more once-admirable musicians turn out to be toothless shadows of their former selves, then, it's nice to know that some are able to stick to the principles that propelled them in the first place.
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Early on, his investigators seized on a law rarely used and long viewed as toothless — the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA, which requires anyone working to advance a foreign government's interests to register with the Justice Department.
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The Mekong River Commission, established in 1995, was meant to ensure that dams did not harm the river's fragile ecosystem or affect villagers downstream, but its provisions are nonbinding and its consultation process has been criticized as toothless.
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And since nobody can say for sure that the Constitution will become toothless if congressional Republicans let yet another infraction pass, their instinct will be to defer their patriotic duty to some more opportune moment in the future.
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Although capable of punishing subpoenaed witnesses who fail to appear, refuse to answer questions or assert the inapplicable executive or attorney-client privilege, Congress has chosen instead to bark its dismay to the media like a toothless dog.
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HOUSTON, May 3 (Reuters) - U.S. shale oil billionaire Harold Hamm, who once called the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, a "toothless tiger," here is now crediting the 14-nation group for its steps to boost crude prices.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission will propose rules on Tuesday to make companies disclose activities in tax havens, but campaigners say the measure may be toothless as EU states have no common view of what constitutes a tax haven.
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The big picture: A federal judge ruled that since Congress repealed the ACA's fine for not having health insurance, the still-existing-yet-toothless mandate that people have insurance is now unconstitutional, as is the rest of the law.
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The film's eye-candy is endlessly impressive and a worthy reason to see the film in a theater, but it's never as memorable as authentic, unique story moments like Hiccup's first connection with Toothless in the series's first installment.
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Corzine suspects that two factors might contribute to the Senate's proposal of toothless bills: On the one hand, the National Rifle Association maintains a stifling financial grip on Capitol Hill, mostly — but not exclusively — with respect to Republican lawmakers.
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Their hair stands on end, they're missing patches of fur, their wrinkled tongues peek out from toothless mouths — and still, every year, the contest captures our national imagination, garnering coverage in the New York Times and slideshows on PEOPLE.com.
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Soho, that last bastion of bacchanalianism for the sake of bacchanalianism, a place where pimps and prostitutes mingled with Saturday night's squaddies and skinheads, has, in recent years, became another sanitized section of edgeless, toothless, corporate-sponsored central London.
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Legalism and art rarely mix well; lawyers will always err on the side of caution, which in a creative context can mean censorship and encouraging artists to make things that are inoffensive, toothless and of little interest to anyone.
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar has been doing the media rounds to sell his plan to lower drug prices, but that is not tamping down many of the critics who say the plan is largely toothless.
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The law aimed to stop illegal immigration by imposing sanctions on employers who might hire undocumented workers, but a proliferation of fake documents, outsourcing employment to third-party contractors, and a lack of enforcement rendered the new regulations toothless.
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If Bobby "Boris" Pickett's "Monster Mash," illustrated with fittingly toothless spookiness by David Catrow, is the most successful lyrics-to-text transfer I've come across, it's because Pickett wrote the words with a schlockmeister's soul and a percussionist's ear.
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At the same time, for all its clever ire — as in the word "SIOUX" with the "IOU" set off in a different color ("IOU," 2017) — Stirring Wirds also shows that protest rhetoric can feel toothless when unyoked from action.
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It doesn't help Britain or the rest of Europe to have, in Donald Trump, an American president who until recently was publicly infatuated with Putin, and has so far allowed only toothless sanctions on Russia for its electoral meddling.
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These groups scored recent victories against net metering in Indiana and Maine, and have turned the renewable energy mandate for utilities in wind-rich Kansas — known in the industry as a Renewable Portfolio Standard — into a toothless voluntary goal.
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Born as the runt of her litter with a form of feline dwarfism, Lil Bub's genetic mutations gave her the unique features of looking like a permanent kitten, and a toothless jaw that left her tongue adorably hanging out.
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Where access to product and REMS programs are concerned, though, the antitrust laws are toothless, since as currently construed by the federal courts those statutes are not viewed as imposing a duty on monopolists to do business with competitors.
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In a statement, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund said it took encouragement from the diminished number of attorneys general signing onto the DACA letter, and urged Trump not to "cave in to the toothless threat" of legal action.
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While many have mocked this accord as being toothless and unenforceable, it is noteworthy that the policy makers settled on a number that is based on the best science available and is within the predictive capability of our computer models.
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" Former NHTSA Administrator Joan Claybrook called the deal "toothless" and said the "safety of the American public will not be best protected with a kumbaya between the federal agency charged with issuing regulation and the industry seeking to avoid regulation.
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Photo courtesy of Dine AloneThe only thing more tired and toothless than people saying Ottawa is a lifeless government town is a self-congratulatory take juxtaposing a particularly ~ edgy~ or ~ fun~ piece of the city against the broader Boring Ottawa®.
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While Toothless is cozying up to the first female of his species he's ever seen, Hiccup is similarly trying to figure out his relationship with his crush Astrid (America Ferrera), under pressure from a village that expects them to marry.
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Along with plans to deepen Europe's capital markets, spreading financial risk and breaking the "doom-loop" between governments and banks overburdened with sovereign debt may do much more for the euro's resilience than a modest budget or a toothless finance minister.
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In other words, the ESRB, which is an arm of the video game industry's largest lobbying group, seems to have taken a rather toothless approach to microtransactions and loot boxes at a time when regulatory pressure only continues to gain steam.
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The records and artifacts we do have show that the bases for these dentures were carefully carved out of hardwoods such as boxwood to naturally adhere to the toothless human mouth (thanks to saliva, mucous membranes, and the principles of absorption).
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A life shared with a toothless grandad with a pair of balls for a chin, a life spent avoiding bullies, a life as oddly average in its not-quite-rightness as more of us experience than we'd like to admit.
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The tone-deaf ad centered on a mock protest involving attractive Millennials, holding toothless signs, gathering for some nondescript purpose—although given that the actors are almost painfully multicultural, we're encouraged to ask: Is this a Black Lives Matter rally?
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"With President Trump as one of labor's biggest supporters, the United States has put forward a detailed proposal that replaces the original NAFTA's toothless approach on labor with enforceable provisions to benefit workers across America," USTR spokeswoman Emily Davis said.
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Sarkozy's successor, Francois Hollande, suffered with the publication of a tell-all book in which his former partner accused the Socialist leader of describing the poor as "toothless", undermining his efforts to portray himself as in touch with the needy.
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A culture is a belief system that every employee must buy into or else a company may risk creating a toothless value system that no one follows, explained Chuck Blakeman, founder of Crankset Group, which helps companies build strong cultures.
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But on a night in which the baseballs flew as if they had wings, the supposedly toothless Tigers beat the Yankees at their own game, hitting five home runs — two by 39-year-old Victor Martinez — in an 8-7 victory.
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Angélica and Lola Torrente prefigure Angélica and María Font, José Arco anticipates Ulises Lima and a toothless Tiresian poetess named Estrellita gives a foretaste of Tinajero; but these characters, archetypes for Bolaño, are integrated here into a narrower time frame.
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A role on Google's AI board was an unpaid, toothless position that cannot possibly, in four meetings over the course of a year, arrive at a clear understanding of everything Google is doing, let alone offer nuanced guidance on it.
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They observed vestiges of genes that were rendered useless by evolution: enamel-making genes in toothless whales, fat-digestion genes in sugar-dependent fruit bats and DNA repair genes in armadillos with armor that protects them from harmful UV radiation.
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Partly because of the I.C.C.'s inherent defects and its missteps — but also because of a shifting political climate worldwide, including the rise of nationalist and populist governments, which typically are hostile to supranational justice — it now seems nearly toothless.
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There's no comparable sense of ethics or political awareness in "Like a Boss," which peddles toothless sisterhood while operating from the premise that there's something inherently funny about women cursing, having sex and getting stoned, you know, acting like (stereotyped) dudes.
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MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia submitted constitutional amendments on Monday that empower a previously toothless advisory council as a powerful policy arbiter, setting up what could be a future role for himself as Russia's long-term paramount leader.
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From his Gutai period, "A Visual Point-A" (1965), a three-dimensional, vinyl glue form built onto a golden yellow canvas, contains a disturbing horizontal slit that is simultaneously a toothless mouth, a sexual eclipse and an empty eye socket.
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In addition, this administration imposed a toothless requirement on importers of asbestos-containing products from countries that still use asbestos, requiring them to notify the agency before discontinued uses are resumed rather than permanently banning them from entering the United States.
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Washington (CNN)Immigration advocates are unveiling a fresh advocacy campaign on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program aimed directly at President Donald Trump -- even as a March 5 deadline has been rendered toothless and Congress is retreating from action.
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The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), generally considered the template for California's weaker legislation, has been criticized as relatively toothless in practice given that there have been few serious efforts to hold companies accountable under the new law.
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But the conservative judges on the appeals court overturned one favorable ruling after another in what at least from the outside looked like a systematic effort to "clean up the mess" by rendering a potentially powerful rights-protecting decision toothless.
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In the first movie (2010), Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel), through a secret friendship with a not-so-fearsome dragon, Toothless, broke with centuries of Viking tradition to bring about a cease-fire (and cease-firebreathing) in human-dragon affairs.
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Companies will have to disclose activities in tax havens, an amendment which has been added to earlier proposals, but campaigners say the measure may be toothless as European Union (EU) states have no common view of what constitutes a tax haven.
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A role on Google's AI board is an unpaid, toothless position that cannot possibly, in four meetings over the course of a year, arrive at a clear understanding of everything Google is doing, let alone offer nuanced guidance on it.
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Addressing the largely toothless body at the presidential palace, the deputy head of the military council said on Sunday it was ready to form a technocratic government, a remark that suggested the council may seek to navigate the transition alone.
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Later this week, Speier will also introduce legislation to overhaul the process that victims of harassment undergo when they file complaints to the Office of Compliance, which she has called "toothless" and says is designed to protect harassers and not the harassed.
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Because the public can plainly see, that a soon-to-be-toothless FCC, is handing the keys to the Internet – the Internet, one of the most remarkable, empowering, enabling inventions of our lifetime – over to a handful of multi-billion dollar corporations.
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As younger people abandon cable and these kinds of self-congratulatory spectacle shows, producers have more and more incentive to keep their jokes middle-of-the-road and their satire comically toothless, even when it bites down as hard as it can.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a humid, tropical jungle in southern China eons ago, a remarkably bird-like dinosaur with wing-like arms, a toothless beak and a dome-shaped crest atop its head became trapped in mud, struggled in vain to escape and died.
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And while it teases at some kind of dragon-hunting murderous baddie (apparently voiced by Amadeus star F. Murray Abraham), it mostly focuses on Toothless meeting a female of his species for the first time, and acting like a goober around her.
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To critics, though, the Parliament is no more than window-dressing for his authoritarian rule — a fractured and toothless institution that marks the culmination of five years of sometimes bloody political tumult, and that represents the dashed hopes of a truly representative democracy.
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Other mayors came away from the meeting with the impression that the order would actually be enforced in a very narrow way, saying the interpretation that Orrick later in the day called "toothless" was what they were told would go into effect.
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SOFIA (Reuters) - England bounced back from their first tournament qualifying defeat for 10 years with a 5-0 thrashing of toothless Bulgaria on Monday in a Euro 2020 Group A clash marred by racist incidents in the first half that stopped the game.
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"With President Trump as one of labor's biggest supporters, the United States has put forward a detailed proposal that replaces the original NAFTA's toothless approach on labor with enforceable provisions to benefit workers across America," spokeswoman Emily Davis said in a statement.
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The latter is probably a comment on how Kris Jenner has framed her new relationship as tabloid-worthy simply because it's interracial, but it's hard to make a sharp social critique in the midst of a toothless parody and expect it to land.
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But he reserves his most angry, pointed, and well-constructed criticisms for what he paints as a toothless, crony-driven Democratic establishment and — in a turn that might surprise some viewers — Barack Obama, and particularly Obama's visit to Flint, Michigan, in 113.
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Right-o. The moment a character in a British novel craves country life, gleeful readers know what to expect: the doddering, besotted aristocrats; the grand old manor decaying; the local folk toothless perverts; even the animals not pleasingly pastoral but randy and repulsive.
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But experts are skeptical about Zuckerberg's overtures, and say he is once again abdicating responsibility for the worst content on his platform and avoiding real scrutiny, all while spending tens of millions on lobbying efforts to ensure any new regulations are toothless.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Two polar bear cubs born a week ago at Sea World in Australia's Gold Coast are expected to make their public debut in three months time, but staff have seen the blind and toothless pair suckling milk from their mother inside their den.
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But it's also so fucking good—featuring melodies, rhythms, and vocal performances that, when you're jogging through urban residential neighborhoods with manicured lawns that are abutted by toothless and pock-marked homeless men smiling at you in front of 7-Eleven, still sound incredible.
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Wang, who was previously vice governor of the central bank and helped oversee China's recovery from the 2008 global financial crisis, built the once toothless and obscure CCDI into a feared watchdog that felled party heavyweights, including the former domestic security chief, Zhou Yongkang.
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Separately, the prosecutor in the case tells CNN that Tennessee's kidnapping law is so toothless when it comes to girls Elizabeth's age that it's possible Cummins could be found not guilty of kidnapping if Elizabeth says she left with him of her own accord.
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This could have been avoided if the Treasury had just abandoned its toothless role as the policeman of the Arm's Length Principle, whereby tax authorities allow internal and fictitious transfer pricing so long as the prices are set as if independent entities were involved.
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Just as Iran has cheated on the nuclear deal while Obama and his UN mouthpiece Power have buried their heads in the sand, Syria also ignored the toothless warnings of the president and kept enough weapons to continue to slaughter civilians and rebels alike.
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With the help of a squinty Alec Baldwin and long-time Trump friend Lorne Michaels reportedly working behind the scenes to keep those Trump zingers toothless in the run-up to the election, SNL quickly cemented itself as the premiere destination for milquetoast political satire.
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Not a 'toothless tiger' The last time Naimi spoke at CERAWeek, seven years ago, OPEC was slashing output to lift prices that sank to $40 a barrel amid the global financial crisis, and he railed against speculators who he blamed for the price plunge.
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Stronger enforcement of those rules would help, but that would require broader reforms, like replacing the Federal Election Commission, a toothless watchdog often paralyzed by partisan gridlock, with a new agency that has an odd number of members, including a nonpartisan election law expert.
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But when it went to the House, a fellow lame duck, Republican Representative Bob Goodlatte, held up the bill before introducing a version that stripped all punitive measures included for law enforcement agencies that did not comply with the new law, rendering it toothless.
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Perhaps his main claim to fame is his durability: Mr. Kolb has served 17 years in the State Assembly, about half that time as the leader for the influence-free Republican minority, acting as an articulate, if toothless, foil to the overwhelming Democratic majority.
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I think the fact that they put this "argument" in the mouth of Lisa's character, the character who usually champions the underdogs and is supposed to be the most thoughtful and liberal, is what makes this the most ridiculous (as in worthy of ridicule) and toothless response.
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The review came after Reuters reported that FDA agents were concerned that managers, including former OCI Director George Karavetsos, were forcing them to pursue often toothless cases involving mislabeled foreign-imported injectable drugs, at the expense of cases with more potential to protect the public health.
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Now, a new species of these freaky little critters has been identified, and its fossilized remains pile onto the anatomical strangeness, showing that this ancient reptile evolved a toothless, remarkably bird-like head in a world 100 million years before birds with heads like this even existed.
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Nothing ever came of it, however, because the TIU, as it was formed, was not necessarily toothless, but the people running the show—particularly Jeff Rees, a former cop who founded the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption department—seemed disinclined to use whatever teeth they did have.
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""Dragons: Rescue Riders" — "In the new Netflix original series, Hiccup and Toothless lead the Dragon Riders as they soar beyond the borders of Berk and discover the mysterious Dragon eye -- an ancient artifact filled with secrets that will lead them to new lands filled with undiscovered dragons.
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The prime asset of this friendly but toothless show, which opened on Tuesday night at the Pershing Square Signature Center, is Duncan Sheik's pastel score, a hazy evocation of roads not taken by two square, 30-something couples floundering through a bewildering new world of erotic freedom.
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In The Confession Killer, a new 5-part docuseries set to air on Netflix on December 6, filmmakers Robert Kenner and Taki Oldham explore how a one-eyed, toothless drifter with a low IQ was able to manipulate a flawed justice system and become a media sensation.
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The Post confirmed that said investigation concerns a 2011 consent decree on user privacy that Facebook signed with the FTC—violations of which could potentially result in mind-boggling fines in the billions of dollars, though the agency's approach to monitoring such breaches of agreements has historically been toothless.
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It was a decision that was patently absurd, the kind of thing that should have gotten them dismissed as a gimmick and never given a second thought, but it was their commitment to it, coupled with McCabe's cult of personality, that made this more than some toothless schtick.
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And while the recent shakeup in the House could apply some greater oversight to Ajit Pai's FCC in the form of public hearings, this erosion of consumer protections leaves the government rather toothless when it comes to holding carriers accountable until new laws are passed, consumer advocates have warned.
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There are credible reports that a "blue wave" of Democratic Party wins is coming in the midterm elections, and should the GOP lose one or both houses of Congress, no matter what happens in the states, ObamaCare — toothless as it has become without the mandate — may never go away.
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During a meeting in the Canadian House of Commons in 1914, Graham said, "If…we were to go back to…'an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,' there would be very few [Honorable] Gentlemen in this House who would not…be blind and toothless."
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About 50,000 people watched the Prado's director, Miguel Falomir Faus, discuss a mythological renaissance painting by Titian, but slightly more listened to Mr. Osuna highlight a favorite portrait by the Spanish Baroque painter Jusepe de Ribera of a ragged Greek philosopher with a toothless grin and grimy fingernails.
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Still, the fact that China or other large exporters are not now manipulating says nothing about future efforts, and it is increasingly mainstream thinking that we need some enforceable rules in place (besides being too late, the Trump administration's formal labeling of China as a manipulator is toothless).
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With this toothless punchline, Colbert and the Emmys cast a jolly sheen over Spicer's tenure as press secretary, which began with that ridiculous lie about Trump's inauguration crowd size and continued with him berating the press for asking after the truth while evading it with all his might.
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Related: Critics say Canada's inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women will be toothless During pre-inquiry consultations across the country, relatives of the dead and disappeared women said they wanted to know what happened to their loved ones — but police won't tell them information about the cases.
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If you've spent any time with these characters, it's hard not to get swept up in the saga, and it's easy to be moved by the bond between Hiccup and Toothless, who is, in effect, a very loyal dog who can fly and harness the power of lightning bolts.
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In his painting, Picasso has collapsed a woman's head and torso into a rather grotesque shape: the left eye caps a breast-like protuberance; the right eye juts in the opposite direction, becoming the "nipple" of another breast-like shape; the toothless mouth can be read as the woman's vagina.
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In addition to putting on a huge show of letting Kesha sing while flattening her specific condemnation into a toothless platitude, the Grammys returned throughout the night to applause lines with the overall message that "women deserve better" — not seeming to realize that the ceremony itself was proving that point.
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The FDA, after its proactive start in the late 1930s, is now pretty much toothless on weight-loss supplements: if they contain ingredients that were sold legally before the early 1990s, there's no obligation to prove that a new concoction is effective, or safe, before it's put on the market.
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Yet as Americans struggle to make sense of a public health emergency that can only be likened to the AIDS crisis of the 80s—and lobby for something better than President Trump's toothless declaration, offered without any new funding or programs—we're also trying to figure out how we got here.
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Its suggestion that device maker "self-certification" can substitute for the rigorous statutory safeguards that protect personal viewing data is simply wrong – a toothless tiger that would let device makers circumvent the spirit, if not the letter, of the framework created by Congress to protect viewing data from prying eyes.
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Mr. Edelman was the creator of the short-lived HBO series "How to Make It in America," which was notable for a not wholly inaccurate but largely toothless depiction of downtown New York mores; "The After Party" makes "How to Make It" look like "Last Exit to Brooklyn" by comparison.
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The standing of the two plaintiffs, Mr. Hurley and Mr. Nantz, was challenged in the Fifth Circuit and upheld by the panel's majority, which credited the assertion by the two men that they felt obliged to comply with the now-toothless mandate because they believed that people should obey the law.
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"The One" ends up somewhere near chillwave, "Break Up Every Night" is toothless pop-punk, and "Last Day Alive," a collaboration with the pop-country duo Florida Georgia Line, is 100 percent pure pablum, a collection of dim anthemic sayings in search of a stadium, a twinkle with no diamond.
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The music video for "Drop," from 2014, showcases the band's loud and fast brand of optimism—filmed in black-and-white and hand-painted, frame by frame, in shades of turquoise, goldenrod, and salmon, the clip features a toothless ten-year-old flashing peace signs, and at least one puppy.
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As Robert Caro has recounted in his brilliant history of this period, while Johnson believed that even though the toothless legislation fell far short of the goals that civil rights activists were struggling to achieve, passing the bill would be the first time since Reconstruction that Congress had enacted legislation on this issue.
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For procedural reasons, that version of the bill is unlikely to pass with the bare majority Republicans have in the Senate, but Republicans are still floating other options, like "skinny repeal," which would make the individual mandate toothless (likely resulting in a marketplace death spiral) and keep the Medicaid expansion largely intact.
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I have always supposed this to be because Gould suffered from graphomania—he could not stop writing—which is an illness, but seems more like something a writer might have to envy, which feels even rottener than envy usually does because Joe Gould was a toothless madman who slept in the street.
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Given that supplement use is associated with some 23, 000 ER visits and 2,000 hospitalizations in the US each year, it's clear we're looking at a big problem here, but what's even more shocking than the brazen selling of these illicit additives is how tame and toothless the FDA's official actions were.
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The crisis comes from the fact that the challengers decided also to argue that the entire Affordable Care Act must go down with it — that all the benefits that exist apart from the toothless purchase requirement could not function without it, despite the fact that the A.C.A. is indeed functioning without it.
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"I think the fact that they put this 'argument' in the mouth of Lisa's character, the character who usually champions the underdogs and is supposed to be the most thoughtful and liberal, is what makes this the most ridiculous (as in worthy of ridicule) and toothless response," wrote comedian W. Kamau Bell on Twitter.
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"I Know You" is from Mr. David's forthcoming album "Time Is Now," and it begins with nods to club music, but at the hook it begins to swell, and in comes an unlikely partner: Bastille's Dan Smith, usually toothless, but who here sings at his meatiest, perhaps mindful of the royal company he's in.
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To reflect this, the guidance that they receive tends to be less from functional adult figures (the omnipresent Coach Steve, for example, is a disaster of a person who still has his own hormone monster, an ancient creature whose burbling, toothless speech comes with subtitles) than the weird apparitions of their hormone monsters and Duke Ellington (Jordan Peele).
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Tapping into a vein of bratty bravado, he careens past toothless PG-13 peacocking into the kind of unrepentant sleaze that made him successful in the first place, culminating in a breathtaking stretch on the bridge where he sneers about fucking your girl, guzzling cocaine, and buying his mom a station wagon all in the same breath.
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The history of the hard-to-access oasis an hour's drive north of Phoenix has involved a quail-hunting, self-made mogul, Native Americans, new age crystal worshipers, scheming hoteliers and a gun-toting, toothless caretaker who had an enormous pet pig and strategically placed dead rattlesnakes to scare off people — and those are just the recent chapters.
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"The international community's lack of attention to the attack on Idlib is a sign of widespread fatigue regarding the Syrian conflict, and of violence in Syria being seen as routine" Observers say that years of toothless international opposition to Syria's abuses have given the regime and its backers a sense of impunity in the later stages of the conflict.
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"Senators can choose a toothless FCC that will protect huge companies, allow them to further consolidate, charge higher prices with worsening service, and create a bigger disconnect between broadband haves and have-nots," Gigi Sohn, a leading tech policy advocate who served as Counselor to former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, wrote in a blog post this week.
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As a satire of wealth and social climbing, the movie "Greed" — which centers on the rise and fall of a crass English billionaire named Richard McCreadie (Steve Coogan) — feels especially toothless when compared with the Oscar-winning "Parasite," which not only looked at both sides of the haves/have-nots equation but did so in a far fresher way.
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In the village of Unizh, they stayed with a toothless grandmother whom their baby took to "like calf to cow," dropped by a music festival beneath the cliffs of the Dniester River, watched rural families ("including small children") haying in the fields and visited a master craftsman famed for his skill at making bagpipes out of whole goatskins.
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"With this toothless punchline, Colbert and the Emmys cast a jolly sheen over Spicer's tenure as press secretary, which began with that ridiculous lie about Trump's inauguration crowd size and continued with him berating the press for asking after the truth while evading it with all his might," Caroline Framke wrote for Vox at the time.
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The egregiousness of the gold leaf and the inscription's ambition to morph the fair into a circle of Hell seemed intended to tweak and not offend, allowing its targets to feel as if they are in on the joke, and off the hook — a facile and toothless form of entertainment that, like membership on a museum board, normalizes excess and abuse.
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The FTC's privacy audits are widely viewed as one of the strongest enforcement mechanisms for keeping tech companies in line with the privacy promises they make to their users—but a new paper by privacy attorney Megan Gray suggests that the FTC's privacy audits are relatively toothless and need to undergo major reforms if they are really going to protect consumers.
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Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain has said he would be willing to "revisit" the issue if previous "wrongful conduct" meets his Biblical proportion of burden of proof, but he also has said he's "confident" the 2022 World Cup will be held in Qatar, despite the tiny host nation dragging its feet on implementing even the most toothless human rights reforms.
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Neither the Arms Trade Treaty—the international agreement disavowed last year by President Trump—nor the E.U.'s equally toothless Common Position seem to have much impact on Europe's determination to cash in on the chaos, despite requirements to assess arms exports against likely human rights violations, their contribution to internal unrest, or the chance of them falling into the wrong hands.
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"We will not block websites, we will not throttle or degrade internet traffic based on content, and we will not unfairly discriminate in our treatment of internet traffic (all consistent with the rules that were adopted—and that we supported—in 2010, and the rules in place today.)" Ignored by Quinn is the fact that the FCC's 2010 rules were, quite by design, utterly toothless.
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" In a commentary, the New York Times art critic Roberta Smith called Mr. Safer's performance "a relatively toothless, if still quite clueless, exercise," adding: "Basically, he and his camera crew spent a few hours last December swanning around Art Basel Miami Beach, the hip art fair, and venturing nowhere else, letting the spectacle of this event, passed through quickly and superficially, stand for the whole art world.
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Josh HawleyJoshua (Josh) David HawleyRecessions happen when presidents overlook key problems Government regulation of social media would kill the internet — and free speech Juan Williams: We need a backlash against Big Tech MORE (R-Mo.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Monday slammed the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) response to privacy scandals at Google and Facebook as "toothless" in a letter to the agency's chairman.
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And the more I watch this show and engage with others who've seen it and find it a little toothless, the more I wonder if its true audience isn't people like me — raised in this culture and now suspicious of it — but people who are currently in the culture and could maybe benefit from some satire about it that questions many of its underpinnings.
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And then go down the longer list and the establishment keeps winning: Planned Parenthood was funded in the budget deal and the border wall was not, the promised NAFTA rollback looks more likely to be a toothless renegotiation, Trump's occasional talk about breaking up the big banks is clearly just talk, we haven't torn up the Iran deal or ditched the Paris climate accords, and more.
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What he proposed was: to give the lower house of Parliament more power to pick cabinet ministers, including the prime minister, all of whom are currently proposed by the president and rubber-stamped by the legislature; to bar a president from serving more than two terms over all (it's currently two consecutive terms); and to give some teeth to the currently toothless State Council.
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Writer-director Dean DeBlois (a veteran of all three films) juggles a whole lot of moving parts, as well as disparate tones, specifically in the lyrical nature of Toothless' interaction with a female Night Fury dragon -- scenes played silently for long stretches, other than John Powell's lush score, in a manner that almost approximates a nature film -- and Hiccup's familiar assortment of comic-relief sidekicks.
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The show feels oddly formless to me, due to some combination of Cohen's new roster of characters seeming surprisingly toothless, too many of the show's segments largely running out of gas, and the fact that the various politicos Cohen and his producers managed to book always feel a little like mini bosses, the monsters you fight right before you're told the princess is in another castle.
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That America has so readily bought into the myth of Silicon Valley as this weird Robin Hood/Walt Disney hybrid is an indictment of a lot of things, chief among them the way our politics have spawned an increasingly toothless public sector, which is in turn used to justify apps and laws and worldviews that consider unions to be archaic and cab drivers to be rubes.
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Sen. Josh HawleyJoshua (Josh) David HawleyRecessions happen when presidents overlook key problems Government regulation of social media would kill the internet — and free speech Juan Williams: We need a backlash against Big Tech MORE (R-Mo.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Monday slammed the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) response to privacy scandals at Google and Facebook as "toothless" in a letter to the agency's chairman.
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He wears a perpetual smile laced with preoccupation, for even as he comes out to welcome me he must also see to it that the massive amounts of food are being prepared on time, the toilet isn't stopped, the guests are being hosted, the drunk and toothless Ukrainian cutting dozens of peppers doesn't slice off his finger, and that the spirit of Uman is pervading his temporary home.
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