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In the last three years, various drafts of a bill to give the law more teeth have been proposed.
But it would have spared Europe the spectacle of its member states’ governments baring their teeth at one another.
Aristotle was preoccupied with dental issues, writing about treatments of decayed teeth and gum disease, extractions conducted with forceps, and the use of wire to stabilize fractured jaws.
Queen Elizabeth I of England used bits of cloth to plug the gaps in her teeth, in order to improve her appearance.
Louis XIV of France had all of his upper teeth removed after a dentist fractured his jaw trying to extract a lower molar.
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.
My grandmother lost all of her teeth during her life, and my parents lost many of theirs.
My friend’s young daughter, who recently asked if she would ever have “in and out” teeth like her grandparents, can be relatively confident that she will not.
Potential army recruits were turned away if they had tooth decay or missing teeth, because they would be unable to bite open a powder cartridge for a musket or use their teeth to remove a grenade’s safety clip; they would also struggle to eat properly.
Why not take teeth – their relative cleanliness and health – as a mark of economic progress and human happiness?
We gritted our teeth and for the sake of our national economies supported our governments as they bailed out the banks with public money.
Until laws adopted in Brussels are enacted in national law and properly enforced, they remain paper tigers, entirely without teeth.
Suppose a terrorist is pulling out his victim’s teeth one by one, and that the only way to stop him is to kill him.
Most people would say that doing so is permissible, even though the harm to the aggressor is much greater than the value of the victim’s teeth.
The ambition of a country and a society born of the principles of the Enlightenment cannot be to create a people armed to the teeth with guns yet entirely disarmed in the face of illness.
Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi is holding on by the skin of his teeth, and political leaders in Algeria and Morocco are scrambling to maintain authority.
My dentist-guide also described her work spreading “sanitary propaganda” – that is, visiting local grade schools to teach children how to brush their teeth.
MUNICH – Last month, Austria avoided the election of a president from the xenophobic Freedom Party by the skin of its teeth.
But, as confidence in the group’s decision-making – and in the impartiality of the secretariat – improves, members might give it some teeth, such as the ability to impose collective economic sanctions on recalcitrant members.
Meth users often develop rotten teeth and horrible scabs caused by scratching themselves due to a sensation of insects crawling under their skin.
Meanwhile, the General Assembly, the most “democratic” and representative of the UN’s structures, lacks teeth and is rendered ineffectual insofar as every country has one vote, regardless of its size, population, wealth, or military might.
Why, one might reasonably ask, is Trump arming America to the teeth?
Moreover, international climate and environmental agreements often lack teeth.
But without compliance, these are weapons with all the teeth of a paper tiger.
The list of reforms that would remedy this situation – such as adaptable work schedules, modernized severance payment schemes, easier part-time work, better job training, and anti-discrimination laws with real teeth – is pretty self-evident.
The only force that proved capable of maintaining a degree of legality was the self-organized “people’s guards” who have cut their teeth during past periods of unrest.
A global health framework with teeth must also be agile enough to cover the whole chain of public-health interventions, from scientific research and early warning to policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation.
Like Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders who cut their teeth in the US-backed war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, this new generation of jihadist veterans could haunt the security of Asia, the Middle East, and the West for years to come.
The US-Hong Kong Policy Act has teeth to deter China from violating its commitments.
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