And toothless!

She is deaf and he's toothless.

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

Next time I tell a story, keep your hands in your pockets... you toothless old buffalo.

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

One thing is certain it will require a lot more than a warmed over Lisbon Agenda, with easy targets and toothless enforcement, to restore confidence in the euro and safeguard the monetary union.

They held that if the institutional background and skills were weak, a toothless competition agency might result and if the broader issues related to market structures were not adequately tackled, it would operate inefficiently.

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.

In short, the growing, bloody challenges of the twenty first century are to be confronted by a toothless UN, a morally weakened US, and a Europe well on the path toward disarmament. If that prospect worries you, it should.

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.

When international cooperation does succeed, it spawns rules that are either toothless or reflect the preferences of only the more powerful states. The Basle rules on capital requirements and the World Trade Organization s rules on subsidies, intellectual property, and investment measures typify this kind of overreaching.

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). There is no reason to believe that Netanyahu s new government will seek to revive the increasingly feeble and moribund peace process, beyond offering verbal promises and inconsequential half measures.