Because the paper tiger now has claws, a backlash was inevitable at some point, even in a good economy.
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It seems inevitable, for example, that the paper-tiger parliaments in Jordan and Morocco will become more assertive now that inexperienced young rulers have taken over.
Rather than fearing the US, Iran, Syria and North Korea behave as though the US is a paper tiger.
It seems possible to me that the Persians were a paper tiger, capable of putting huge numbers together but relatively ineffective, even incompetent, in using them.
Bush's actions showed insurgents had misjudged the U.S. and that Bin Laden was wrong: The U.S. was no paper tiger.
Our debacle in Lebanon in the early 1980s convinced Osama bin Laden and others that the U.S. was a paper tiger.
In the business context, we can adapt our paper tiger tendencies when we understand what our subconscious is driving us to do.
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Resolution authority, all three panelists agreed, is a paper tiger that will fall apart the minute it is tested in a real-life financial crisis.
But experts say it also points out that compulsory orders, when the government resorts to them, are really a paper tiger.
As one wag put it, the PRC views us more of a pirouetting paper-tiger than a formidable foe, whose pivot represents a meaningful trategic redeployment.
On the wall a paper poster showed a woman draped only in a tiger skin stretched out on a Lamborghini.
After all, Kim is an adherent of the U.S.-is-a-paper-tiger school of thought.
The Republican challenger can point out that this is seen by Beijing for what it is: the unresourced - and, therefore, meaningless - machinations of a paper tiger.
Its willingness to diminish the U.S. role to more-or-less that of any other nation, while insisting on continuing to pick up more than a fifth of the organization's tab has reduced America not just to a paper tiger but a patsy, to boot.
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It is not the time to retreat and reveal to all and sundry that we are a paper tiger.
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