Examples of 'paper tigers' in a sentence

Meaning of "paper tigers"

paper tigers: Refers to individuals or entities that appear powerful or threatening, but are actually weak or ineffective when confronted
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  • plural of paper tiger

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My point is that we need not be paper tigers.
Paper tigers threaten, but are destroyed easily.
All the imperialists are paper tigers.
We are paper tigers but we are live tigers!
We need to challenge these paper tigers.
They felt like paper tigers - often very angry, but easily beaten down.
We must challenge these paper tigers.
Paper tigers threaten, but are destroyed easily . Chinese idiom.
But they all fainted like paper tigers.
Paper tigers. It's paper tigers.
The present scrutiny committees seem to be paper tigers.
Both were paper tigers.
The imperialism and counteraction are paper tigers.
They were paper tigers.
Our committees of inquiry must not become paper tigers.

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They are just paper tigers.
Without the feedback and integration of the machine operators we are toothless paper tigers.
I will consider it. If any of you paper tigers make the grade.
Without effective controls and proper enforcement our Fisheries Policy rules remain paper tigers.
Most of the NGOs proved to be nothing but paper tigers, " says the campaigner.
The Muslims have figured out that European leaders are paper tigers.
But not all were paper tigers.
We have collectively allowed human-rights laws to become irrelevant paper tigers.
We should not trust paper tigers.
We must never allow ourselves to feel intimidated by such types-they are paper tigers.
They were nothing but paper tigers.
That are the rotten imperialists. This woman has been seen with the paper tigers.
They are in essence paper tigers.
In such moments they tend to lash out, to avoid being taken for paper tigers.
In the jungle of paper tigers.
This shows how true are the words of Chairman Mao, " All reactionaries are paper tigers.
Revisionists are also paper tigers.
Like all reactionaries, they were simply paper tigers.
Reactionaries are paper tigers.
In the past, much-vaunted EU programmes have turned out to be paper tigers.
No, they are just paper tigers.
He said, " In the long run all imperialists are paper tigers.
We revolutionaries - paper tigers.
We always knew the Italians were paper tigers.
The Chinese used to call us paper tigers.
KU My table is an army of hollow paper tigers.
Many of our fears are, in fact, paper tigers.

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