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The new laws are just paper tigers without any method of enforcement.
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But for the acquisition to fail so quickly, was Autonomy a paper tiger after all, and Lynch simply the mastermind of a spectacular fraud?
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airmail.news, 19 Aug. 2024
Assad's fall is an embarrassment to both Moscow and Tehran, the latter of which is increasingly exposed as a paper tiger with the degradation of Hezbollah and Hamas.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
As Israel continues to pound leadership bunkers and weapons caches at will from uncontested airspace — at the cost of hundreds of civilian lives in Lebanon — the Lebanese Shiite militia has been revealed as a paper tiger.
—Robert Grenier, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Washington would be unwise to test the theory that China is a paper tiger that would back down in the face of concerted American action.
—Ryan Hass, Foreign Affairs, 9 July 2024
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airmail.news, 19 Aug. 2024
Assad's fall is an embarrassment to both Moscow and Tehran, the latter of which is increasingly exposed as a paper tiger with the degradation of Hezbollah and Hamas.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
As Israel continues to pound leadership bunkers and weapons caches at will from uncontested airspace — at the cost of hundreds of civilian lives in Lebanon — the Lebanese Shiite militia has been revealed as a paper tiger.
—Robert Grenier, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Washington would be unwise to test the theory that China is a paper tiger that would back down in the face of concerted American action.
—Ryan Hass, Foreign Affairs, 9 July 2024
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“Paper tiger.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paper%20tiger. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.
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