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lip service
1. At that wonderfully incompetent organisation called the United Nations, did these countries support you? Or did they uniformly condemned you and paid lip service to your request in the form of information to save your citizens lives? I think we know the answer to that one for we regularly change channels when we see the bizarre attacks on you with boring consistency
2. And they gave good lip service to the communists too whilst abusing their assistance, yes, but afterwards? Not so much, there is no communist regime in the new South Africa
3. Africans feel they are only taking our minerals and not giving enough back in infrastructure whilst paying lip service to the masses because they have the (unpopular) corrupt governments bribed
4. How much longer is our nation expected to fill the coffers of rogue nations that routinely utilize its (oil) revenues to finance our destruction! One can only hope that once public concern supersedes its off-handed complacency by making its presence felt in Washington, that its (collective) impact will hopefully override the perennial lip service that oftentimes passes itself off as a genuine commitment to solving this dilemma
5. Lip service rendered to social/cultural issues has all but been conceded to the Democratic Party
6. Her lip service was rewarded with twenty minutes of rising and falling while he only slowed twice
7. lip service job of surrender will do
8. He didn’t pay much lip service to the press, most of his good deeds had been twisted and paraded as mere publicity stunts
9. For some reason I was sure the invitation was more than lip service
10. This was no lip service to the cult of the military; this was the strategy of someone who expected trouble
11. People pay lip service to the idea that we’re all aware—that each one of us is the centre of his or her universe—but that’s often hard to reconcile with the way that most of the peasants conduct their drudgery
12. No belief, only lip service and repetition
13. That was the problem with the modern-day Samajwadi Party—socialist values were reduced to cut-outs and lip service
14. Besides, isn’t it supposed to be that totally un-physical part of each other that we really love? Do most actually “love” just the body parts they liked to hug and hold of a child they enjoyed playing with, or of a mate they loved to make love with, after all? Was only lip service paid to the concept of loving “who” a person was, instead of some physical “what”? Must be, if the flap over the bodies of TWA’s Flt #800 victims is any indication
15. The Prophesy’s Enforcers had processed him in short order, paying minimal lip service and skating through the legalities with all the delicacy of a blow torch on an ice cube
16. It’s a great way to demonstrate that you are not simply paying lip service to a SPAM policy, but have taken concrete steps to prevent it
17. paid lip service for the bill, some members of Congress felt that the president could have
18. These loans given to corrupt regimes exist only so rich countries can pay lip service to the idea that they are actually helping the 3rd World countries
19. Regardless of the lip service environmentalists spout, waste is a part of every-day life on so many levels and in so many ways, it is so normalized and taken for granted; that it is not even an issue except on documentary films
20. They never mention any kind of humane value that might transcend their own sacred, exclusive, religion or culture, or race… except in lip service
21. or; as a form of hypocritical lip service; in order to sustain these four aspects
22. To justify any sport, the ego gratification of winning is touted as the supreme goal and reward for playing a sport: which is a complete, hypocritical contradiction against all the supposed ethics of sportsmanship that all athletes pay lip service to
23. All the countless of proven remedies, and researched things that work; are pooh-poohed, buried, ignored, or given lip service to
24. as long as I give the easy lip service of superficially admitting that I am a sinner, that I am a coward, that I am dishonest and a liar
25. Regardless of all the lip service in the world: this fact has never changed
26. While these religions might pay lip service to greater happiness in the
27. It's common to people to pay lip service to the notion that
28. Ten Commandments, though they only paid lip service to the Ten Commandments
29. While merely paying lip service to the self-evident nature, wisdom, and expectations
30. They satisfy you with lip service, but their hearts refuse, and most of them are immoral
31. Although everyone paid lip service to the untrustworthiness and general inferiority of women, in practice several of the town’ s wealthiest and most important citizens were female
32. Although investors have been taught to pay lip service to this theory, their instincts—and perhaps their better judgment—are in revolt against it
33. 4 The prevalence of wide diversification is in itself a pragmatic repudiation of the fetish of “selectivity,” to which Wall Street constantly pays lip service
34. “I’d been playing at revolution before, paying lip service to the cause
35. Investing is fundamentally driven, and other than general lip service to buying low and catching an upside movement for a few months or years, it is a buy and hope approach to the market