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But they soon find that the system can seem more like a paper tiger.

We must not let this strategy become a paper tiger.

The first year in this job, you're a paper tiger.

"How can we talk about a force if it only exists as a paper tiger?"

But actions in other states have proved to be paper tigers.

Without such a procedure, the whole article remains a paper tiger.

The guidelines are basically nothing more than a paper tiger.

Ever a paper tiger, Martin is not much of a physical fighter despite trying to come off as such.

But most of the conflicts it sets up are paper tigers.

The plain fact is that we are regarded by many as a paper tiger.

Paper Tiger is not for people who already do a good job of organizing their files.

Chemicals legislation has to be effective, and not just a paper tiger.

My constituents will be hoping that this is not just another paper tiger.

But it remains difficult to see how the paper tiger can avoid being shredded over the next two or three years.

They're worried that their own people will see them as paper tigers, too."

Facing his first real challenge to stand up for a sensible political order, he turned into a paper tiger.

"To me, that doesn't sound like we were looking for a paper tiger," he said.

"Paper Tiger" in 1965 was her last Top 30 hit.

Introducing this paper tiger is, in my view, misleading the consumers.

Maybe he even believes that beneath the roar, the Christian right is a paper tiger.

A paper tiger instead of a comprehensive horizontal directive perhaps?

"A few political opponents are here, but they are more or less paper tigers."

You don't want anyone to regard the system as a paper tiger."

You also share a heavy degree of responsibility for ensuring that we do not end up as paper tigers.

Is it only a paper tiger, or does it really have teeth?