And toothless!

And when I'm old and gray and toothless and bootless,

That's not a man. That's nothing but a toothless rat.

Again, the Security Council failed to take meaningful remedial action and confined itself to pass toothless resolutions.

When international cooperation does succeed, it spawns rules that are either toothless or reflect the preferences of only the more powerful states.

9. The Government of Panama is of the view that the adoption of a code without adequate means for its implementation would render it toothless.

Israel is now proud to be in a world of its own, in which it feels free to act unilaterally and scoff at toothless criticism from Europe (and now partly from the US).

So many people lost their teeth that dead people s teeth were recycled. The teeth of the 50,000 soldiers killed at Waterloo in 1815 were extracted and used until the 1860s as replacements for the toothless.

Similarly, the US Treasury is legally required to determine if a country is intervening to an unfair and unreasonable extent. In practice, however, the Treasury s reports on this issue are generally toothless and lead to no real consequences.

Nor is any Indian election complete without the media publishing at least one picture of a female voter whose enthusiasm for the suffrage is undimmed by the fact that she is old, blind, crippled, toothless, purdah clad, or any combination of the above.

One shudders to think what lessons the US financial sector will draw if, after the multi trillion dollar bailout, there are only superficial, toothless reforms. And will China s coastal export interests again prevail in exchange rate policy decisions, at the expense of poor inland consumers?

It seemed odd to Gregor that, out of all the many different sorts of sounds of eating, what was always audible was their chewing teeth, as if by that Gregor should be shown that people needed their teeth to eat and that nothing could be done even with the most handsome toothless jawbone.