Examples of paper tiger in a Sentence

The new laws are just paper tigers without any method of enforcement.

Recent Examples on the Web Today, Russia looks like a paper tiger, albeit a brutally destructive one. — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 19 May 2022 That means the Fed, long a paper tiger, will have to keep pushing rates higher until the cost of living finally backs down. — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 13 May 2022 More on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is the Russian military a paper tiger? — James Nachtwey, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022 Perhaps worst of all from Putin's standpoint, Russia's military has been revealed to be something of a paper tiger, scarier in theory than in practice. — Joel Mathis, The Week, 21 Mar. 2022 The crisis in Kazakhstan has turned the CSTO from what formerly looked like a paper tiger into a functioning tool of regional elite solidarity. — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2022 The Pirates, with a 7-1 record highlighted by a road win over No. 4 Michigan, were no paper tiger. — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Dec. 2021 But at some point, talk without action threatens to recast the drive for judicial reform as a paper tiger, which might in turn embolden the right’s grand reactionary design. — Simon Lazarus, The New Republic, 6 May 2021 Withholding donations for a quarter or a year is a paper tiger, especially if the PAC usually only gives to candidates in election years. — David Yanofsky, Quartz, 15 Jan. 2021 See More

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