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The new laws are just paper tigers without any method of enforcement.
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It will be cited in climate change cases around the world, but may ultimately end up being a paper tiger - looking strong but having no real power.
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Jon McGowan, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Europe's paper tigers could have placed forces from their own nations into eastern Ukraine in January 2022 to enforce the 1994 treaty, thereby preventing the entire war.
—John Davenport, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
Intermediate scrutiny, it should be noted, is not a paper tiger.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 27 June 2025
Iran will appear a paper tiger; its non-state partners defeated or deflated; its nuclear program in shambles; its military a shadow of its former self.
—Hussein Agha, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025
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Jon McGowan, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Europe's paper tigers could have placed forces from their own nations into eastern Ukraine in January 2022 to enforce the 1994 treaty, thereby preventing the entire war.
—John Davenport, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
Intermediate scrutiny, it should be noted, is not a paper tiger.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 27 June 2025
Iran will appear a paper tiger; its non-state partners defeated or deflated; its nuclear program in shambles; its military a shadow of its former self.
—Hussein Agha, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025
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“Paper tiger.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paper%20tiger. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.
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