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This deal could then be given teeth by the UN Security Council.
It is the oldest international environmental agreement and one of the few with real teeth, because it can impose trade sanctions for non-compliance – and because virtually all countries have joined.
Many observers are once again gnashing their teeth at the United States’ continued monopoly over the top post, despite the poor performance of past US nominees.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has declared that China and Pakistan are “as close as lips and teeth,” owing to their geographical links.
She grit her teeth and gave in.
Such a clause could come with stronger or weaker teeth.
At this point, those untutored in economics are likely to start gnashing their teeth.
One testified that a US soldier had used a rifle to knock out a row of his teeth, and that he was forced to dance to music whenever he needed to use the bathroom.
It was possible to establish authority through collectivist myths, to assert your separate road against global trends, to molest neighbors in the teeth of international censure.
It cannot be extracted, like teeth, from the brains that possess it now.
New budget legislation, along the lines of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2003, but with more teeth, needs to be instituted.
China’s willingness to arm and defend African dictators, even in the teeth of UN sanctions, as in Libya, undermines its claim to a “peaceful rise.”
And by January, Britain, having just kicked the EU in the teeth, could find itself attempting to negotiate, under a new prime minister and cabinet, a new political and economic relationship with the EU’s 27 other members.
For China now has a bankruptcy code with teeth, and the country’s courts are beginning to enforce it with rigor.
Guards armed to the teeth surrounded him, yet he firmly supported the notion of democratization.
Left-leaning pundits claim that the dictator’s daughter has the same autocratic vision as her father, though Park invariably prefers incremental change to radical measures, and cut her political teeth in the tough-minded politics of the GNP.
I watch the head of this Las Vegas croupier, this kitschy carnival performer, coiffed and botoxed, drifting from one television camera to another with his fleshy mouth perpetually half-open: you never know whether those exposed teeth are signs of having drunk or eaten too much, or whether they might indicate that he means to eat you next.
The bankers will laugh, while politicians wail and gnash their teeth.
Previously, the enemy was solitary, armed to the teeth, and quite predictable.
To give this presumption teeth, it should be included in international trade and investment agreements.
Despite all of the current wailing and gnashing of teeth in Europe about its future, the euro isn’t going anywhere.
Mustering the cross-cultural political will to give the responsibility to protect real – and consistent – teeth will always be difficult.
Crucially, the agreements must have teeth.
In the wake of revelations by the World Anti-Doping Agency about large-scale state-sponsored doping in Russia, the country avoided an outright ban by the skin of its teeth.
China’s commitment to stability has teeth.
– and giving the OAS teeth beyond suspension of members for violating its precepts.
The Many Benefits of Vitamin DSINGAPORE – Vitamin D helps our bodies regulate levels of calcium and phosphate – nutrients that keep bones, teeth, and muscles healthy.
We are once again learning the hard way that this kind of austerity, when applied in the teeth of a major financial crisis, leads only to depression.
Owners and Winners in Eastern EuropeBUDAPEST: Only by the skin of his teeth did Vaclav Klaus, the blunt proponent of a "market economy without adjectives," return to power in Prague after last spring's parliamentary elections.
We know these creatures' apotheosis, Dracula, as a vampire from Transylvania, a bat-like person with long canine teeth who lies in a coffin during the day and bites necks and drinks blood for sustenance.
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