Until it is ... it's a lot of lip service.
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" But "it seems like all of this is lip service.
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They'll pay lip service to some sort of a freeze.
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Today, 5G gets little more than lip service from regulators.
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The time for lip service came and went long ago.
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Sure, party leaders and lawmakers have delivered good lip service.
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People pay lip service to change knowing it's not coming.
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The social justice activations also went far beyond lip service.
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But it's not enough to pay lip service to bipartisanship.
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But Trump has barely paid lip service to these events.
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His supposed regard for the military is often lip service.
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It is given lip service now but not really followed.
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"We're not just doing lip service to this," he said.
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Congress frequently gives lip service to the idea of accountability.
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As ever, lip-service was paid to the Balkans' "European perspective".
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But the feedback form seems like little more than lip service.
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Governments find it easy to pay lip-service to women's rights.
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The EU pays lip service to assisting industries in developing countries.
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" She adds: "I cannot settle for partial solutions and lip service.
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Then, many Republicans at least paid lip service in condemning Trump.
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This is not just lip service – it is getting stuff done.
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If you want to reward these movies, don't pay lip service.
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And the party and government pay lip service to gender equality.
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"It was all lip service; it was never funded," he said.
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Saudi Arabia joined in the condemnation, but it was lip service.
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Lots of companies give lip service to the importance of transparency.
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Indeed, the plight of trafficking victims is given mere lip service.
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Here's hoping that conversation results in far more than lip service.
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"He's keeping promises, instead of lip service like every other politician."
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The president gives lip service to complaints about the strong dollar.
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Some argue that commemorations have become no more than lip service.
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It is not just lip service; it is not political expediency.
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They want far more than lip service and political talking points.
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Where it becomes: are we paying lip service to women's rights?
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In speeches, Mr. Sisi pays lip service to the 2011 uprising.
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He simultaneously paid lip service to supporting the then-nascent #MeToo movement.
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Her commitment to the family is more than just lip service, though.
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It's a lot of lip service until you start actually doing it.
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And paying lip service to tired, politically correct clichés now seems irrelevant.
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Once again, Ivanka's message smacks of paying lip service to women's empowerment.
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So they may have paid lip service to taking the back seat.
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Seniors, like other constituencies, aren't buying the lip service of the left.
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Facebook has offered lip service about breaking out of the echo chamber.
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Clinton had merely been paying lip service to the party's progressive wing.
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Organizers of the marches have paid lip service to keeping things peaceful.
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After all, a lot of musicians pay lip service to these ideas.
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He too is accused of paying lip service to orders from Beijing.
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Anything he does say in support of women is just lip service.
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"We get a lot of lip service from the technology companies," Rep.
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In other instances, though, such lip service honors and reinforces worthy ideals.
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"It is not enough to give lip service to equality," Collins wrote.
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But all too often each side pays mere lip service to the other.
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Its diplomats at the UN continue to pay lip service to the sanctions.
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They paid lip service to the goals of curbing terrorism and pacifying Syria.
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Though he paid lip-service to peace initiatives, he never changed his mind.
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And in this case, they're not even trying to pay us lip service.
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They mostly pay lip service to the Palestinian cause, but often forget it.
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Let's compare 2014 to 2017 again, that same period of unprecedented lip service.
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Instead, Ubisoft doubled down on "games as a service"—it wasn't lip service.
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But I see it as kind of a little bit of lip service.
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Trump routinely pays lip service to the idea that he doesn't "condone" violence.
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Bluntly speaking, it's become little more than an exercise in bipartisan lip service.
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But Ms. Doe said the university paid only lip service to that policy.
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Or, do you think these commemorations have become no more than "lip service"?
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"Increasingly dubious, lip service, irresponsible, blatant lies," read one of the fake labels.
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For a long time, Mr. Netanyahu gave lip service to a Palestinian state.
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But critics accuse the government of merely playing lip service to climate concerns.
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This time the president dispenses with lip-service to democracy or human rights.
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It was to be paid lip service in constitutions but ignored in political practice.
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Yet paying lip-service to American values helped maintain bipartisan support for the relationship.
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But some of the progressive schools pay only lip service to the state's curriculum.
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Mr Abadi, a Shia Arab, pays lip service to reconstruction and reconciliation with Sunnis.
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The truth is scary to people, even when they pay lip service to change.
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Tariffs are another area where "progress" may amount to little more than lip service.
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The repeated nods, over and again, to coal miners felt like clumsy lip service.
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He paid lip service to mutual religious respect as the key to effective partnership.
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Give it lip service because nothing will change without changes in the Supreme Court.
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That contrast serves to undercut the lip service to feminism done by the script.
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Today, China pays lip service to international norms while exploiting them to benefit itself.
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Base priorities only get lip service during campaigns and token show votes in Washington.
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Some firms may be paying only lip service to the idea of female leadership.
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Zero. Treatment guidelines, representing the standard of care, only pay lip service to nutrition.
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But for the first time, studio presentations paid more than lip service to diversity.
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"We get a lot of lip service from the technology companies," Butterfield told reporters.
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This promo, despite the lip service it pays to "journalistic integrity," encourages the opposite.
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He doesn't also have to be a victim and a lip-service to it.
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Mr. Nocera's column pays lip service to — or entirely ignores — all of the following.
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They give quivering lip service to these sacred sentiments, especially the part about cats.
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They pay lip service to it, but they actively try to undermine its institutions.
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They're at least aware enough of it to pay lip service to solving it.
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President Obama paid minimal lip service and never put his office behind the issue.
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"It&aposs no longer just lip service saying, "Hey, the e-commerce is great.
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Democrats in the local congressional delegation paid the issue lip service for many years.
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But there was just one problem with the claim: It was pure lip service.
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Lip service about internet access while municipal fiber efforts still get trampled and so on.
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Farmers and rural communities rarely get more than lip service from business executives and politicians.
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Would stars merely pay lip service to gender equality in between plugging their latest projects?
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It becomes performative grieving, and it runs the risk of just being literal lip service.
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MORE, gave lip service to the idea of reducing the influence of money in politics.
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People love the NHS, and even Conservatives have to pay lip service to protecting it.
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This seems very true of the internet, where being "good" can be such lip-service.
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Of those that did mention climate change, many only pay "lip-service" to the issue.
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But critics accuse Trump of rarely paying so much as lip service to those values.
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"There's a lot of lip service," said Masi of both Trump and politicians in general.
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In China, there's little more than lip service paid to the right to free speech.
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Applied Science The idea of creativity receives plenty of lip service in the corporate world.
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Mr. Cuomo gave lip service to eliminating this loophole, but little of his political muscle.
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Trump himself has paid lip service -- barely -- to the human element of this whole crisis.
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The leftward race to the bottom will continue despite her lip service to moderate Democrats.
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Lip service like this is just one reason why Congress' approval rating remains perennially awful.
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We cannot afford another 17 years — or more — of lip service with no real solutions.
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Focus on your relationship with your community—is it social climbing, lip service, or activism?
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In the end, Paul Ryan paid some lip service to their demands, and became speaker.
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My employer pays a lot of lip service to being a hospitable and inclusive workplace.
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"There is a lot of lip service about prevention, but not much money," he said.
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They usually require you to tolerate opposition parties and pay lip service to human rights.
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My employer pays a lot of lip service to being a hospitable and inclusive workplace.
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Sadly, it has become increasingly clear that the President's words were nothing but lip service.
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We are asking that colleges live up to their commitments to diversity beyond lip service.
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"We get a lot of lip service from the technology companies," Butterfield told reporters Thursday.
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Usually, these promises end up first getting lip service after the election and then forgotten.
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"I think it's largely lip service," said Jacinda Woodhead, editor of Overland, a literary journal.
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Paying lip service to understanding Turkey's security concerns does not remove those threats and dangers.
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Owens' win cements WWE's commitment to its New Era as more than just lip service.
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And rather than pay lip service and move on, she decided to do something about it.
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As Graham told Refinery29 earlier this year, the retailer isn't just paying lip service to inclusivity.
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Vincent is actually just giving his brother lip service, and will pay dearly for it later.
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Perhaps this will just be more lip service in a time of PR crisis for Facebook.
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Some of the other candidates pay that idea lip service, when they get pushed on it.
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In reality, the supporting characters offer lip service to the range of experiences beyond the stereotype.
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Politicians pay them lip service, but their influence pales in comparison to large for-profit enterprises.
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"It's absolute lip service from the NCAA when they say they are about education," Gurney says.
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I'm sick of the lip service our elected officials pay to problems that do have solutions.
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Western officials pay lip service to territorial integrity, while resigning themselves to the new status quo.
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After the fight, Sanchez paid lip service to the idea of his evolution as a fighter.
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While it made intuitive sense, I really thought Zuckerberg was paying lip service to the idea.
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As he moves towards the White House, Trump may begin paying more lip service to unity.
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They paid lip-service to the agreement but continue to pursue their own agendas in Syria.
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"Everybody gives lip service to a lot of things and then nothing actually happens," she says.
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"Everybody gives lip service to a lot of things and then nothing actually happens," she said.
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That shows where the USGA really stands, despite the lip-service-only condemnation a year ago.
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But others, like Russia, pay lip service to antidoping measures while fostering a culture of cheating.
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"To me it was all lip service," said Johnson, whose district includes the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood.
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For the first time, the importance of onscreen diversity came across as more than lip service.
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Brands will have no choice but to make real change and not just pay lip service.
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China is ruled by a Communist Party that pays lip service to the cult of Mao.
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European countries, while still paying lip service, are much too busy dealing with their own angst.
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So, is Trump's new commitment heartfelt, or merely lip service in the wake of these embarrassments?
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Next wave of the boom The more cautious approach appears to be more than lip service.
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Hillary gives lip service to climate change, but she's spread fracking around the world as SecState.
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The government was lying and paying only lip service to respect for human rights, it said.
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It's not often that a #1 voter issue doesn't even get much lip service from politicians.
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As with any initiative that improves the bottom line, paying lip service to diversity isn't enough.
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Imagine that, the NFL paying lip service to a problem they have no intention of solving.
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Their lip service to those concerns appears to be a roundabout way of reaffirming the status quo.
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A lot of companies give lip service to women's safety, but it's not always the highest priority.
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The choice shows that Modi is paying more than just lip-service to the fight against inflation.
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That's not just lip service — people do flock to YouTube to watch live streams based around music.
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He has paid lip service to peace with Palestinians but has taken no meaningful steps towards it.
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How much of this is reality—not the virtual kind—and how much is simply lip service?
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The hopefuls pay lip service to the need for more building, but then skitter down side streets.
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So far, they say their findings suggest that Silicon Valley rhetoric on diversity is just lip service.
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"The Trump administration gives lip service to 'cooperative federalism,' but it practices 'fair-weather federalism," he said.
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But Gibbons had Pillar bat leadoff throughout camp to see if lip service would manifest in results.
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Clinton said the Republican nominee merely paid "lip service" to being on the side of average Americans.
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States' rights still get lip service, at least when it comes to matters like limiting transgender rights.
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Certainly plenty of spaces pay lip service to the idea of openness, but wind up feeling cliquish.
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On Sunday, the CBS board announced his departure, not even paying lip service to his long career.
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It's about issues that have received lip service forever, but never any really passionate push behind it.
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Yet they remain unwilling to commit this administration to anything more than lip-service to those ideals.
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However, those watching may view these words as lip service to the sustainability and stakeholder capitalism narrative.
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Democrats would welcome Trump paying more than lip service to frustrations over the high cost of prescriptions.
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The puzzle was originally submitted with SOFT SERVE and THE BIG DIG replacing LIP SERVICE and VOLLEYBALL.
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Let's stop the lip service and finally demonstrate that nothing is too good for our boys (and girls).
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And it's better that the company pays lip service to fighting white supremacy on its platform than nothing.
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That doesn't entirely explain why the limited EV options from major auto manufacturers sometimes feels like lip service.
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Olivier Rousteing isn't just paying lip service when it comes to increasing visible diversity in the fashion industry.
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Clinton, they say, was only paying lip service to the progressive groups she courted in the Democratic primaries.
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Remember, not so long ago, Democrats at least gave lip service to our basic right to border enforcement.
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The American electorate wants more than just lip service and lies from the White House and state houses.
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The actions of an organization's leaders speak louder than the lip-service they give to its ethics standards.
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Lip service is given to assimilation, but the reality is closed, radicalized colonies within the larger national structure.
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There must be more than lip service to the concept of time well spent and digital well-being.
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"What they're leaning toward is what the Democratic party is only giving lip service to," she told CNN.
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Several LGBTQ YouTube creators are criticizing executives' promises and apologies "lip service" in a new class action complaint.
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"I'm not stressed about people who pay lip service to diversity, or don't talk about it," he continued.
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And for the first time, movie studios paid more than lip service to diversity at Comic-Con International.
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Also in 1991, Hot Topic expanded into clothing by initiating partnerships with Tripp NYC clothing and Lip Service.
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John Kasich of Ohio, who promised more than just lip service to the islands if he became president.
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And sure, Cho's words were almost certainly lip service as the company struggles to find its way forward.
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I certainly didn't pay lip service to it—to me, what they taught was as real as gravity.
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As much as we pay lip service to helping others, few of us act on our own words.
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They continue to pay only lip service to diversity and inclusion, favoring tepid diversity initiatives over real solutions.
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The Trump administration has paid lip service to the idea but offered nothing concrete, focusing instead on enforcement.
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If past climate reports are any indication, odds are it will receive some lip-service but little action.
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Rural Americans were tired of slogans, lip service and benign or blatant disregard of their ideals and recommendations.
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She also said Mr. Acosta had described paying lip service to lawmakers when called to testify before Congress.
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Many politicians from both parties pay lip service to the debt but fail to make the tough decisions.
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It will require primarying our elected representatives who give at best lip service to the needs of workers.
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It's high time for more than lip service, that real resources are injected into the African-American community.
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Kylie Jenner's pop-up shop damn near shut down an entire major city ... and this ain't lip service.
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" This is not her paying "lip service," Nogwaza, a lawyer, adds, as "human rights are close to her heart.
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"On cost cuts, Cryan only paid lip service today; he made no concrete announcements," a top-ten investor said.
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Every single business leader and manager in the world at least pays lip service to the value of safety.
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Joseph is one of the architects of Gilead's economy, but he barely pays lip service to its complex rules.
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Its response to the earthquake in 2013 showed that it was not merely paying lip-service to the idea.
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In Washington, that collaboration has come to mean mostly paying lip service to separation of powers and congressional authority.
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To be fair, he did pay lip service to the idea that some occasions should be immune from politics.
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Credibly dealing with the debt entails tough choices, which is why most in Washington prefer lip service over legislating.
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More important, Trump's lip service to prison reform could be a political boost for reformers in deep-red states.
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Second are those who pay some lip service to the agency's mission, but work to undermine it, like Carson.
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Most traditional politicians have done nothing but pay lip service to small-business growth for a generation or more.
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And I take no solace in the lip service generated by politicians and their parties to rectify this situation.
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The pickles are really just lip service, and the standard bun, though toasted, is nothing to text home about.
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"He's outspoken, he's global, and he feels all these issues rather than just gives them lip service," she said.
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And Democrats, cowed by years of anti-debt, tax-and-spend messaging, pay regular lip service to debt reduction.
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Halloween forces grown-ups to pay lip service to their inner-child, leaving everyone feeling (and acting) like morons.
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The show pays lip-service to Nadia's humanity, but we just never truly witness that full humanity on screen.
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"It has to be on your mind all the time, and not in a lip-service way," Bee said.
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Donald Trump is willing to pay lip service to the idea that such a movement is a bad thing.
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It's also insulting that the White House is only paying lip service to high-skilled workers and their families.
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Unjust cultural values, not girls, are a burden, and paying lip service to gender equality, is not good enough.
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The people in power, in Washington and in boardrooms across the country, will pay lip service to the tragedy.
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As a candidate for president in 2016, Donald Trump paid lip service to the need to reduce the debt.
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Which tells you a lot about why Democrats in 2020 are paying lip service to the idea of reparations.
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Despite minor rule changes and lip service to the idea of better representation, the Grammys remain on the defensive.
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But Victoria's Secret isn't even trying to give its customers and viewers lip service when it comes to diversity.
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Throughout its history, the health insurance industry has paid lip service to controlling costs while actually driving them higher.
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The show paid mere lip service to the successes of women and nonwhite performers, and were boring to boot.
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"You can give me all of the lip service you want — which a lot of people did," he says.
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Modern black metal's customary lip service to certain spiritual or occult influences often feels forced, or hollow; not so here.
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Plus, it bothered me how the movie paid lip service to some more progressive storylines without actually pushing any boundaries.
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Outside Bangui, CAR is but a collection of fiefdoms controlled by factions who pay lip service to the peace process.
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They have not denounced this barbarism with conviction, only paying reluctant lip service in the face of incessant public pressure.
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Vietnam's constitution pays lip service to democratic principles, but the country of 93m people is a repressive one-party state.
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But she clearly has some proving to do — that she's not "just a standard politician who gives you lip service."
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"The legislature gives lip service to training the workforce, but it doesn't put money where its mouth is," he says.
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" Moreover, Mahathir declared, countries have been paying "lip service" to free trade, while "most countries practice some kind of restriction.
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This Veterans Day, you will likely read and hear many political leaders paying lip service to honor our nation's veterans.
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The bill gave lip service to conservatism, while embracing Big Government and retaining its liberal worldview and leftist policy prescriptions.
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" He pays lip service to the code of the outlaw—"when you side with a man, you stay with him.
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These letters pay lip-service to Israeli security concerns in the most anodyne and unsympathetic "yeah, but" kind of language.
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"We were paid lip service, I will say that, by democratic establishment candidates for a very long time," she says.
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Nevertheless, the Doctors' Syndicate is a powerful institution in Egypt and its protests have elicited some lip service from authorities.
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While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has paid lip service to supporting the two-state solution, he has continually undermined it.
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Finally, minority businesses must be given more than lip service on access to federal contracts; they must be awarded contracts.
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Sure, he's a perpetually randy man, but he gives great lip service to the more reasonable forms of political correctness.
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Sources who are close to the President say he feels Kelly doesn't respect him, and only pays him lip service.
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Despite the lip service Liberals pay to Native tribes, they consistently pick oil interests over the rights of Indigenous people.
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And it takes real steps to encourage the development of renewable energy, instead of just paying lip service to it.
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"He takes great lip service to wanting new ideas, but he doesn't value or respect outside opinion," the source said.
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The storyline lets Stranger Things pay lip service to a few progressive ideas about intersectionality and class and gender privileges.
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There's "Lip Service," which is about a man who can only tell a woman he loves her through his ventriloquist dummy.
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"A lot of lip service is given to diversity and inclusion but the actual practicability of it lacks," he told me.
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Paying lip service to "science" in this way is similar to tweeting about #TimesUp but not doing a thing about it.
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However, it's highly likely that he was paying lip service to the issue instead of actually caring about the corruption problem.
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The danger is that Deutsche just staggers on, cloaked in patriotism and paying only lip service to making an adequate ROE.
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To save his tottering organization, IOC boss Thomas Bach should really consider serious reform instead of paying it mere lip service.
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We're already hearing lots of lip service about Coleman, but how much will Atlanta actually use him once the preseason begins?
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In west Africa, meanwhile, politicians pay lip service to the idea of a single currency for all countries in the region.
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Even the world's most powerful authoritarian states, Russia and China, feel the need to pay occasional lip service to democratic ideals.
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Everyone in Hollywood loves paying lip service to LGBTQ inclusion; far fewer people in Hollywood are actually doing something about it.
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Democrats, in thrall to identity politics, pay lip service to "workers" but often support trade agreements and cannot oppose illegal immigration.
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Sure, some politicians on both sides of the aisle over the years have given some lip service to weakening the banks.
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Sex, like weed, gets a lot of lip service in Mary + Jane, but always seems to exist just beyond the frame.
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In the meantime, customer demand means mainstream companies and retailers are giving more lip service to the concept of clean beauty.
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My request has only been ignored, delayed, mocked, given trinkets and lip service by the prison, the military, and this administration.
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"To push an anti-abortion agenda abroad while paying lip service to women's empowerment is the height of hypocrisy," Lowey said.
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Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party does not even pay lip service to the official pretence that the island is part of China.
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Despite many efforts to force the bills passage, including belated lip service from the VFW, the bill died in the Senate.
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Key U.S. allies in Europe and Asia are likely to defy or, at most, pay lip service to Trump's sanctions threats.
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For about 50 years the FCC and liberal advocacy groups have been paying lip service to advancing diversity and minority ownership.
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Unfortunately, they are not always set up to succeed within organizations and can end up becoming companies' instruments for lip service.
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Although Trump gave some lip service to the crisis on the 2016 campaign trail, his administration's response has been generally weak.
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Evangelicals have cast their lot with a hedonistic president who seems to merely give the Bible lip service at public functions.
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Good people of good conscience are seeking to do what Trump only gave lip service to, and in his way bastardized.
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I'll be traveling a lot because I do have this Lip Service tour so I might not be there for it.
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Is Fellini paying lip service to a new moral dispensation that he doesn't understand, or honestly chiding himself for former sins?
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But critics say many organizations are not adhering to the letter of the law, or only paying lip service to it.
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Transportation secretary Elaine Chao paid lip service to the impact of driverless technology would have on the labor market last month.
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Inclusion riders would put real teeth and enforcement power behind diversity talk that seems to get less action than lip service.
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Paige paid lip service to that fear, once again showing she's got a bit of a knack for spycraft, however reluctant.
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Despite paying lip service to respecting journalists, Sessions did not take questions from reporters at the end of the news conference.
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It's true that Sanders gave a lot more than lip service to issues of racial and gender justice in this speech.
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Mukund Rajan, former chief ethics officer at Indian conglomerate Tata Sons, said many companies paid only "lip service" to protecting women's interests.
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There are a bunch of good songs on this, like "Fly In" and "Fireman," but still no allusions to giving lip service.
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This casts doubt on how credible the critiques are, and it signals that Facebook cares more about lip service than meaningful findings.
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The good news is that, I think, no longer is merely lip service being paid to female directors and directors of color.
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Since Trump is a savvy politician, he will always give lip service to evangelical concerns as a way of holding his base.
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You hear a lot of lip service paid to this, but actually, companies don't really like it when you fail, you know?
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Lip service and even big donations in the name of racial justice doesn't absolve these tech innovators of pursuing better hiring practices.
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Those looking in at the Davos bubble will need more than just lip service and a bland "corporate and social responsibility" whitewash.
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She criticized Democrats who only pay lip service to communities of color, saying her mission is to start talking to voters now.
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The proposed next-gen communications standard got plenty of lip service at press conferences, ranging from marquee names like Samsung and Nokia.
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Honduras demonstrates the lack of international will in 2018 even to give lip service to the need for free and fair elections.
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Whatever solidarity he does offer is just lip-service to suffering but he never makes it a priority to end that suffering.
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The government pays lip service to tribal sovereignty, but it prevents tribes from making their own decisions about their land and resources.
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But critics say that many organisations are not adhering to the letter of the law, or only paying lip service to it.
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But one might believe that he'd at least pay lip service to the decided minority who delivered his undeserved, Russian-backed victory.
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Both President Bill Clinton and President Obama gave lip service to campaign-finance reform and then put it on the back burner.
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Most of the world capital of technology has in the last few weeks started paying some lip service to the presidential election.
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Speaking to Business Insider, Harris said the big tech companies often pay 'lip service' to the issue of diversity within their workforces.
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They aren't interested in people giving lip service to conservative Republican values at home while voting to spoil Trump's broth in Washington.
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All the candidates paid lip service to the notion that Trump was a peerless businessman, but not all of them believed it.
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Apple says it cares about education, students and teachers, and the work it showed today suggests that it's not just lip service.
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If a candidate can simply pay lip service to your key issue to win over your voters, you've lost all your power.
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"I just thought there's a lot of hypocritical lip service coming from Hillary when she talks like a strong progressive," he said.
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"This is merely paying lip service because of Mr. Khatami's electoral support," said Hamidreza Taraghi, a political analyst close to Iran's leaders.
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The good news, if there is any, is that some lip service has been paid to trying to change Wall Street's culture.
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Ren quickly cops on that if you wanna get anywhere in this country, you gotta pay some lip service to the Christians.
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Today, many people refer to that phenomena as lip service, which is when people talk the talk but don't walk the walk.
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So they pay lip service to the new rules even as they disregard them, and the public generally doesn't know the difference.
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At the national level, the Democrats need to start running hard on climate and energy, instead of paying the issue lip service.
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"There's been nothing to date other than lip service from Pompeo," he said referring to Mike Pompeo, the American secretary of state.
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He has often given grudging lip service to supporting NATO, even while complaining frequently about allies' military spending and unfair trade policies.
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She portrays Mr. Curbelo, 38, as a double talker who gives moderate policies lip service, but ultimately votes mostly with Republican leadership.
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Racial critiques of "Girls"—and the simultaneous rise of Black Twitter—had scared executives into at least paying lip service to diversity.
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They pretend to be on the side of ordinary working people — "paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare," he wrote.
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Many companies pay lip service to nurturing talent, but Ballet Hispánico has devoted significant resources and care to cultivating emerging Latino artists.
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And we were excited that Ukraine might, after years of lip service, finally get serious about addressing its well-known corruption problems.
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We pay a lot of lip service to the lessons that sport can teach: perseverance, teamwork, composure — and sometimes those actually manifest.
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Social media companies, for their part, seem to only pay lip service to the few lines they're even willing to acknowledge exist.
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True, all too often we pay only lip service to these values; there have been many dark chapters in our nation's history.
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"The Hong Kong government must know this is a solution, but I expect them to pay lip service to it," he said.
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He criticized Mr. Coffman, saying the congressman paid lip service to immigrants but had not been able to pass any major reforms.
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"The innovation center is not just lip service," said Andrew Atherton, a director at the technology-focused investment bank Union Square Advisors.
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He called for more focus on victims and listening, honestly, to the cause of these killings rather than simply paying lip service.
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For the past several decades, diversity has been something that both sides of the political aisle at least paid lip service to.
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And sure, the industry might pay lip service to criticizing some of Trump's drug pricing policies, particularly the Part B price index plan.
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While every Democrat has paid lip service to the idea of a government option, Sanders would make the government option the only one.
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But Shyamalan's creaky dialogue and McAvoy's detached stoicism in the moment make that moment ring false, more lip service than a character beat.
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We give a lot of lip service to "try and fail," but we don't actually encourage it when the rubber meets the road.
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A recent CNNBusiness report shows that many employees want real change from their companies after years of paying lip-service to the issue.
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One of the things interesting about Donald Trump is that he's given more progressive lip service to LGTB issues than other Republican candidates.
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After years of lip service to the idea, 30 seems like the perfect age to scratch international travel off of my bucket list.
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Cuomo for giving "lip service" to the issue of abortion while not signing the Reproductive Health Act or the Comprehensive Contraceptive Coverage Act.
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The new hire figures in particular point that this isn't just lip service, but rather a situation that Apple is committed to improving.
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What's next: The NSS pays lip service to these elements, but leveraging them all may prove challenging given Trump's focus on military strength.
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President Obama always gives lip service to lowering the corporate tax rate, but he never specifies a particular rate or an overall plan.
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If Republicans truly wanted an open process or meaningful debate, or merely cared about paying lip service to these concepts, we'd have both.
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But in practice, he's built his entire campaign around the concept of throwing out special interest money, while Clinton's barely provided lip service.
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Everyone in government, not least Mr Blair, paid constant lip-service to the need for proper planning for the aftermath of the invasion.
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The speeches each year recall Mr. Rabin's drive for peace and give lip service, at least, to the goal of a future settlement.
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Some, like Nance, worry Trump is only paying lip service to their causes without fully grasping why those causes are important to them.
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Yes, there has been lip service under American pressure to a two-state peace, but from Netanyahu it was never more than that.
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He also paid lip service to the immigration plan he rolled out last month, but which has not gained traction on Capitol Hill.
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He has paid lip service to retail politics, but has spent most of his social time courting big money donors on Wall Street.
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And despite the tech industry paying lip-service to diversity, it remains a field dominated by the design principles and labor of men.
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But for others, neglecting a strong, singular message suggests they may only be using policy planks to pay lip service to progressive goals.
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Even when congressional leadership and the administration pay lip service to racial and economic equity concerns, they miss the mark by a mile.
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Mr. Trump does pay lip service to upholding labor and environmental standards, which were shifted to side agreements in the original Nafta negotiations.
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For all of its lip service to walkability and public transit, Marohn believes the plan ultimately prioritizes car traffic flow above all else.
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They pay lip service to De Kooning, Shapiro, Rosenberg, and Hess, but they don't really give a fig about what they stand for.
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Trump's transportation secretary, Elaine Chao, did however pay lip service to the problem recently, without offering much concrete detail on a potential solution.
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Though the West still pays lip service to the cause of "market reform," it has come to depend on Beijing's maintaining its grip.
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Though the West still pays lip service to the cause of "market reform," it has come to depend on Beijing's maintaining its grip.
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While these three powers pay lip service to the idea of peace in the Middle East, narrow self-interest increasingly drives their thinking.
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The candidates gave lip service to the horrific plight of China's Uyghur Muslims, an estimated 1 million of whom are in concentration camps.
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But responses from our elected officials should be more than knee-jerk reactions to provide lip service and soundbites in a terrible situation.
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Although many Arab leaders pay lip service to the Palestinian cause, the gravest and most pressing issue in the region is Iranian encroachment.
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For a show that's traditionally a ballad-loving affair, the energy was welcome, as was diversity that didn't just feel like lip service.
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But the union said the company appeared to be paying lip service to having a union but was not interested in serious negotiations.
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Lip service to resisting temptation, but inevitably giving in to it, is something we watch happening all the time in the real world.
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But in a more important sense, it shows that the USADA program is working, or that it's at least more than lip service.
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The purists might say he only pays lip service to the idea of free trade; he would probably accuse them of being politically naïve.
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I know that I was a person who paid lip service to self-exams – but come on, let's be honest, I didn't do them.
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And if Facebook doesn't take that seriously, it's hard not to see its commitment to fighting fake news as much more than lip service.
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Arab governments have other worries, and often value Israeli trade and security co-operation much more than paying lip service to the Palestinian cause.
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"I think Condoleezza is paying lip service to #MeToo; you can't say women who are asserting their rights are being infantilized," she tells Refinery29.
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Most presidential candidates at least give lip service to the idea that their campaigns are an expression of the will of the American people.
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To prove the British fashion house isn't all lip service, on Monday, the company announced two cool ways it's promoting diversity around the world.
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It's just getting tiresome to hear Star Wars keep kicking that can down the road while paying lip service to the importance of inclusivity.
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And we can smoke out the phonies and the lip service payers from the people who truly believe in these fundamental principles of sovereignty.
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Because Hispanics have influenced few elections, many see no merit in voting, and political parties have often only paid lip-service to wooing them.
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We know that Donald Trump is capable of paying lip service to inclusivity when he recognizes it's something that would be good to do.
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That's not just lip-service, He makes products like the iPhone C and SE that, I believe, he thinks these emerging markets will love.
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The GOP in Congress continues to give lip service to things like executive amnesty and concern about the borders while funding Obama's every move.
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That Tuesday's ruling happens to cement executive power and let Trump pay lip service to a campaign promise is all the better for them.
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Lip service Trump's administration gave the South China Sea a short mention on page 46 of its newly unveiled 68-page National Security Strategy.
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So ask the right questions of a financial professional and ensure what you are receiving is real financial planning — and not just lip service.
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McCain and Graham have paid lip service to the plight of refugees, and Graham has suggested he might support legislation to let more enter.
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They might be content to be fortresses that hoard their money, while the best and brightest pay mostly only lip service to societal health.
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While it plays lip service to the Palestinian cause, Israel and Saudi Arabia have a tacit understanding not to encroach on each other's interests.
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And the thing that made me mad was that it was only there as a form of lip service and the shot went nowhere.
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Promises of waivers or fee reductions for the poor can be nothing more than lip service, a New York Times investigation in 2016 found.
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Little more than lip service is often paid to this necessity, and there is often too little political will to enforce any effective change.
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In the current government there is not a single politician representing the nation's diversity, though Ms. Merkel often pays lip service to social unity.
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Brands have given ethical manufacturing a lot of lip service for many years but now the pressure for action and complete transparency is growing.
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While both parties have at least given lip service to civil rights principles since the 1970s, they write, Trump has thoroughly altered the equation.
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"It can't be lip service," says Ashley Hunt-Martorano, a former Citizens' Climate Lobby volunteer from Long Island who now works for the organization.
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Mr. Mugabe's rule offered conflicting narratives of violence and a fragile inclusiveness, a powerful impulse to dictatorship barely cloaked by lip service to democracy.
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The cover called his decision a "cruel betrayal built on lies," adding that he "paid lip service" to LGBT rights during his 2016 campaign.
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She and her followers will be calling on leaders to stop giving mere lip service to fighting climate change -- and to get real results.
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For most veteran rock 'n' roll singers, this would seem like lip service, a positive narrative highlight to complementarily coincide with an upcoming tour.
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Lip Service Sometimes I notice that I'll do my makeup, and then it will match or reflect something bigger that's going on in my life.
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Though it paid a lot of lip service to automation, Silicon Valley truly relied upon a transient workforce of workers outside of traditional labor relations.
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They see this guidance as more of the same -- lip service to the good guys, while still maintaining avenues for labeling anyone a "bad" guy.
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It remains to be seen whether the lip service paid by state media to the anniversary will satisfy those who lived through the chaotic period.
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On the other hand, Kaine's record reflects greater devotion to war powers reform than Obama, Biden, and Clinton's campaign trail lip service for constitutional limits.
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But when Richard talks about her love of tech, and sci-fi, and gaming, she's not just paying lip service to Google or The Verge.
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The company did, however, give a little stage time to its appliance line and, per usual, allotted some lip service to its ThinQ AI offering.
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The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards had an awkward dissonance between its lip service to diversity and the noticeable lack of diversity in the night's winners.
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While empty lip service has been the preferred solution to routine privacy abuses here in the States, the European Union has taken a harder tack.
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On the other hand, the administration's cuts to outreach and sporadic lip service to repealing the ACA do nothing to stanch growing confusion among shoppers.
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But we're all originalists now, playing on Scalia's field (or at least paying lip service to it, as Sonia Sotomayor did at her confirmation hearings).
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"I will continue my campaign ... I just stood by with my promise, all other politicians they pay lip service to the problem," he told reporters.
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The old economics, noted Mr Stiglitz in his Nobel-prize lecture, paid considerable lip-service to incentives, but had remarkably little to say about them.
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This is the party that supports affirmative action, that champions diversity, that pays lip service to getting more women and minorities represented in public office.
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All these people are living double lives and are struggling to come to terms with their situation, but "Shab" is happy giving them lip service.
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"The administration's cuts to outreach and sporadic lip service to repealing the ACA do nothing to stanch growing confusion among shoppers," Kushner and Schlosser write.
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And politicians pay lip service to the idea that there is a time for campaigning, and it's not right after the last election has ended.
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"Passing a bill that is doing little more than paying lip service to the problem falls woefully short of Congress's basic responsibility," the spokesman said.
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Voters want sincere efforts to achieve policy, not just the lip-service of an ad campaign that lasts only as long as the campaign itself.
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Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) on Wednesday accused President Trump of offering "lip service" to the black community during his speech honoring Black History Month.
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The past decade has given us LGBT-centric shows like Looking, The L Word, and Lip Service, none of which are still on the air.
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President Trump's first budget was released with lip service barely paid to even the existence of Medicare and Medicaid and no mention of Social Security.
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More of the tired pandering and insulting appeals to identity politics, which does little more than pay lip service to minority voters every four years.
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They have imposed tougher anti-money laundering controls and are at least paying lip service to the idea that crime-tainted money should be shunned.
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Trump has broken from conservative orthodoxy on trade policy, and his commitments to shrinking government and cutting taxes appear to many to be lip service.
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Then I learned that corporate America only gives lip service to the idea of a mother finding life-work balance through flexibility from her employer.
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Avoid lip-service meetings Managers can run the most well-run meetings, but if there is no execution afterward, it can cause friction with employees.
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While most interventions pay only lip service to the problem, one strategy — acting as a group, based on the following three concepts — has been useful.
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The party at times paid lip service to the equal sharing of domestic labor, but in practice it condoned women's continuing subordination in the home.
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So he has found himself in the awkward position of trying to both pay lip service to, and dampen the enthusiasm for, the Gaza protests.
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While paying lip service to the American mission, Saudi Arabia has not built a significant project in its own name in Afghanistan in 15 years.
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They may hear it and give some lip service, but what are the actual physical actions and plans around returns that they&aposre actually making?
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Cardona was not an especially spiritual kid, but like his colleagues he offered lip service to Santa Muerte, the Mexican folk saint of the dead.
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It has pledged to cut carbon emissions by 26% from 2005 levels by 2030, but critics accuse Morrison of paying lip service to that commitment.
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It has pledged to cut carbon emissions by 26% from 2005 levels by 2030, but critics say Morrison is paying lip service to the commitment.
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The nation's leaders proclaim to care about the kids, but now that this impasse has been averted, it is time to move beyond lip service.
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But his mention of Roberto was seen as nothing more than lip service in the Miron slum, where Roberto and his mother shared one room.
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It's easy to pay lip service to the fact that some of the most important government decisions are made at the state, not federal, level.
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President Obama has paid lip service to "freedom of worship" while downplaying the Constitution's words, "free exercise of religion" — and often equating faith with discrimination.
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Democratic leadership has long paid lip service to these ideals, but has been reluctant to give them the positions of power to execute the agenda.
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First Fisher claimed to be unaware that GM Les Snead's contract had been extended, then he paid some lip service to his own poor performance.
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There are three basic problems that Facebook's moderation system attempts to solve: The current system is focused on volume, with lip service to locality and awareness.
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Sure, Microsoft was essentially paying lip service to privacy and security concerns after Facebook's debacle, but that's more than we've heard from Google so far today.
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And, in an effort to show it's more than just obligatory lip service, they announced a number of updates meant to make its products more private.
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Chou suggested some of the accused men making comebacks are paying lip service to diversity and inclusion because of the optics and to "brandwash" their names.
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After so many screwups and breeches and leaks, it can be hard to see their promises to "take your privacy seriously" as more than lip service.
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But as in Dr. King's time, today's moderate only pays lip service to the general goals of these policies and movements while also condemning their stridency.
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While we pay lip service to the virtue of examining different views, research tells us Americans avoid talking politics with people who might disagree with us.
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Liberal values might be under threat, but at least everyone in Argentina continued to pay lip service to those values — and to cooperate where they could.
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The West, particularly the United States, still pays lip service to democracy and human rights, but it too for decades has fallen into the same trap.
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And this isn't a case of a celeb just giving lip service -- Jason signed a petition and continues to implore his fans to get on board.
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But none of our heroes have ever gone so far as to free a droid, or even paid lip service to the cause of droid rights.
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It didn't take long before critics claimed Rousteing was simply "paying lip service" to diversity by choosing to work with virtual models, instead of human ones.
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A persistent problem in climate change politics is that Democrats pay lip service to the existential threat but prioritize kitchen table issues with faster political payoff.
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In January, former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, told Reuters there was "a lot of lip service but not enough action" to meet those targets.
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Going forward it will be worth seeing what Uber is laying out now is simply lip service, or whether the zebra really has changed its stripes.
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Some critics saw the ad as little more than lip service, given the company's complicated history with handling abuse, which often targets women on the platform.
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If anything, we know the person wearing the T-shirt isn't simply paying lip-service to feminism — it's something she works towards in her everyday life.
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The President has paid lip service to this idea but has yet to offer proposals that do more than nibble around the edges of this issue.
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As the United States moves on from a highly divisive election, the key challenge facing Americans is to go beyond giving lip service to the problem.
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It provides glossy lip service to queer gamers who are typically represented as villains — if at all — in one of the entertainment industry's least diverse workforces.
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After taking office in 2017, Trump payed lip service to Cuban-American voters by taking rhetorical rather than substantive steps to roll back relations with Cuba.
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The more mainstream view of the current center-right government is to pay lip service to the idea of negotiations, but not actually host peace talks.
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If Verma denied Utah's request for a partial expansion, Ostrovsky said it would look like she was paying "lip service" to what she sees as innovation.
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Under pressure from Barack Obama, Netanyahu delivered a speech at Bar-Ilan University, in 2009, in which he paid lip service to a two-state solution.
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Many conservatives who pay lip service to limited government get cold feet when it comes to sweeping away the interventions that occur via the tax system.
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Or that Trump's abortion lip-service is simply a fig leaf to excuse the support of religious conservatives who are already loyal to the GOP nominee.
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What doomed Clinton, in the end, was not that she appealed to racial and ethnic minorities, but that she paid them little more than lip service.
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As time went on, though, Trump began to pay lip service to old Republican anti-porn stances, signing a pledge to prioritize obscenity prosecutions in August.
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A newly leaked memo is raising concerns that Democrats are only paying lip service to the work of activists involved with the movement for black lives.
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European powers, China and Russia have paid lip service to protecting the nuclear deal but have been reluctant to stand in the way of American pressure.
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The goal is to encourage them to want to quit for their own good, not just to give you lip service and continue behind your back.
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Open Carry Texas' Vice President, David Amad, told the New York Times that he thinks Walmart's policy was just lip service to the gun control lobby.
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They are often winning fights against Republicans in power, and their struggles are garnering at least lip service from Democrats considering a presidential run in 2020.
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Shoshana Chen, a survivor's daughter, said in a radio interview that world leaders needed to do more than give lip service to fighting violence against Jews.
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That is what separates him from Wenger and Mourinho, both of whom at least paid lip service to England's much-vaunted traditions, its fog-horned exceptionalism.
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Given the occasion, most domestically produced films released the week before the event at least paid lip service to themes such as patriotism and self-sacrifice.
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And most people didn't think Trump's foreign policy would even pay lip service to humanitarian concerns, such as Bashar al-Assad's use of sarin in Syria.
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The Obama administration has given a lot of lip service to the idea of treating drugs as a public health problem, not a criminal justice issue.
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While almost all UN members pay lip service to the notion that they're following the letter of international law, far fewer are delivering on those pledges.
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"So far, the president and his allies have paid lip-service to transparency — heck, even the president said it should be released to the public," he noted.
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Bloomberg was more open than Trump, and at least gave lip service to the idea of preventing conflicts -- but even so the effort was only partly successful.
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While biennales like Manifesta might pay lip service to various social justice causes, the commercial motives of such exhibitions undermine their power to foment real social change.
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Design considerations are still being paid lip service, but it seems like it's an easier pitch to sell people on features rather than good looks and ergonomics.
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The likes of Mr Modi may offer lip-service to Gandhi, but then they "seek to diminish his stature by elevating their own heroes," such as Savarkar.
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Facebook continues to scratch its East Coast lobbying itch while giving lip service to West Coast political ideals and generally telling everyone what they want to hear.
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Because it looks like you're palling around with The Empire while only paying lip service to the forces of good like Han Solo and the Easter Bunny.
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"There's a lot of lip service around data, and I think even for us in the first two years, we talked a lot about data," Camberos said.
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Lawmakers can issue strongly-worded reports all they want but until shareholders start complaining, we can expect Facebook to continue paying lip-service to its core problems.
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Our photog got the 79-year-old Republican from Arizona at LAX Thursday, and he makes it clear ... he's not just paying lip service -- he's hardcore Brit.
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But it's important that Apple is at least paying lip service to phone longevity, and appears to be trying to optimize its new software for old hardware.
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The band's paid lip service to the music of the Ramones and the early Beatles when discussing the record, bands meant to represent speed, energy, and homogeneity.
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While almost all UN members pay lip service to the notion that they're following the letter of international law, far fewer are actually sticking to those pledges.
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Our public sector may never be able to match the efficiency and growth of our private sector, but it sure ought to offer more than lip service.
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These leaders pay only a lip service to the constitutional principles while in their day to day behaviour they are anti-Dalits and can't accept Dalit assertion.
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And even those countries that didn't abide by those principles were still subject to shame and still had to at least give lip service for the idea.
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Most NATO countries have paid little more than lip service to the chemical threat since the end of the Cold War, because they believed it had disappeared.
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We need less lip service to sexual harassment training and the development of a better and more fair system for reporting actual sexual harassment in the workplace.
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TAX REFORM Despite being raised every congressional session, the debate around tax reform has too often offered more lip service rather than delivering on any real action.
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After a decade of economic dialogue and engagement with China for these changes, American policymakers, businesses and academics are impatient with China's lip service and slow progress.
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Rather than support a tough policy to which past presidents gave lip service, elites ran for cover, attacking America for taking a "dangerous" approach to this madman.
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This weekend, the actress Debra Messing spent part of an award acceptance speech imploring the first daughter to do more than pay lip service to female empowerment.
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But over the last few years, the glitterati which once paid lip service to The Donald as a pop culture fixture has turned its back on him.
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The US will give lip service to this issue but it is not going to be something that is going to cause the deal to be canceled.
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This suggests that Carter's emphasis on expanding the ability of the US to engage high-level threats is a hell of a lot more than lip service.
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Where once Earn had merely paid lip service to succeeding for her sake, he now has to put his money (as in, tuition) where his mouth is.
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And some question whether President Xi Jinping was ever really serious about economic reforms, or merely paying lip service to change to justify his grip on power.
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However, in this election cycle, it may be more than just lip service when you hear from the candidates and media how important the 2016 election is.
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If the Trump administration was firmly on Israel's side, she said, even Palestinian leaders were only giving lip service to the cause while quietly doing Israel's bidding.
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And it is not only rooted in thinking the CEOs signatures are the penned equivalent of lip service — "CEO virtue signaling" — that won't be followed by action.
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Suing the government over the anticipation of reducing Bears Ears National Monument issues pays more lip service on the land issues then it actually does protecting it.
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"China never pays lip service," said Han Wenxiu, the executive deputy director of the powerful, policy-setting General Office of the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission.
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Group member Professor Griff tells us he thinks the Academy was just paying lip service to black protesters and will go right back to business as usual.
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For years, traditional media has somewhat paid lip service to "digital," although I'm not really sure how much most of them really got the realities of digital.
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In recent weeks, Trump has paid lip service to being interested in a $2 trillion infrastructure bill, but there's no indication he's willing to pay for it.
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"I think there are those who are tied to these establishment institutions and donors who will pay lip service to what people are saying they want," said Changa.
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They have a very specific view of the world, and he used to kind of pay some lip service to that, and he doesn&apost anymore at all.
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Many firms pay lip service to diversity but beyond recruitment quotas and good intentions how many can boast about having a varied and thriving workplace for all employees?
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In less practiced hands, the topics of Prato's essays might come off as trite or lip service to the shower thoughts of vacationers who are benefiting from colonialism.
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But it does perfectly capture the sickening hypocrisy of Hollywood, which has played lip service to women's empowerment for decades — all while systematically exploiting and ensuring their oppression.
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While she paid momentary lip service to the question posed to her after the match, she eventually got down to brass tacks: Did the Broncos beat the Patriots?
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The social media star, Wilhelmina Curve model, and vocal champion of body positivity isn't just paying lip service to the cause — she's actually working to change the industry.
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No discussion of the GIF is complete without paying lip service to one of the most enduring, and silliest, internet fights of our time: how to pronounce it.
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The Yakuza series is unapologetically obsessed with the idea of family, whether bound by blood, circumstance, or oath, and that's not just a matter of conceptual lip-service.
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Despite the government's lip service about sympathy for women's rights, it still takes the stance that public protests cross a line into what it considers defiance to authority.
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Despite the lip service paid to the ideal, despite years and years of negotiations with successive American administrations mediating between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, it never recovered.
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Agreement came most easily on competitiveness and the promise of more free-trade deals, to which all EU countries pay lip service, even when obstructing them in practice.
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The time has come to prove that it is willing to go beyond paying lip service -- even if that means having some difficult conversations with its Russian hosts.
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When the regulatory burden drowns out productivity and innovation, the flowery rhetoric we often hear from politicians about small businesses is seen for what it is: lip service.
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"The Obama administration is basically tolerating civilian casualties in Yemen and giving lip service that they are concerned," said William Hartung, an adviser to the Security Assistance Monitor.
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"All the lip service in the world isn't going to protect America from the Zika virus," said Senator Charles Schumer of New York, the Senate's No. 3 Democrat.
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Sure, there are and always will be people who pay lip service to Time's Up without lifting a finger to help the movement achieve any of its goals.
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True, he paid lip service to certain Reaganite ideas during the primaries — claiming to be pro-life, promising a supply-side tax cut, pledging to appoint conservative judges.
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President Obama has paid lip service to executive order that would at least shine sunlight one major source of campaign contributions: companies that do business with the government.
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"The Trump Administration continues to give lip service to clean energy, while simultaneously rescinding the very policies intended to hasten its development, " he told CNBC in an email.
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As Trump confronted the reality of a divided Washington, he gave lip service to unifying the country but also made it clear he won't change his combative style.
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Leaders had initially paid lip service to a "3+1" approach, feeling that the more technocratic ECB position needed to be treated separately from the more political roles.
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Our photog also asks whether nominating black-themed movies might be a ploy to pay lip service to the films with no intention of bestowing awards on them.
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"You need to pay more than lip service to restoring public confidence in government," Mr. Martins, a 50-year-old father of four, had asserted before the election.
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After all, successive American administrations have paid little more than lip service to human rights in Egypt, even as they sent billions of dollars in aid and weaponry.
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Whether it was just lip service, he certainly got the customers, but they have flipped the industry on it's head, when it comes to all of this stuff.
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President Obama made a point in his book about Democrats paying lip-service to the African-American community, and we believe his point applies perfectly to Joe Biden.
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Policymakers who ache at the absence of a European tech success on the scale of Google or Amazon pay lip service to the importance of the single market.
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Mr. Fernández's call could easily turn into mere lip service, which is precisely what happened when Mr. Macri assumed office nearly four years ago promising to end divisions.
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The rise of Google and the other giant businesses of Silicon Valley have been driven by a libertarian culture that paid only lip service to notions of diversity.
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We routinely pay lip service to the high ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, but almost no one truly cares about these musty old documents.
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Unconventional in form as well as content, "Speed Sisters" is a sports-underdog documentary that pays only lip service to the genre's typical strive-setback-win narrative arc.
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President Obama made a point in his book about Democrats paying lip-service to the African-American community and we believe his point applies perfectly to Joe Biden.
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Holly Harris, executive director of the Justice Action Network, said the line was a boost to efforts to pass reform and that it was significant, not lip service.
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"If we want more women running for office, we need to make allowances to make that a reality and not just give lip service to it," she said.
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While almost all UN members pay lip service to the notion that they're following the letter of international law, far fewer seem to be delivering on those pledges.
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Massachusetts has a solid equity program on paper but falls short in implementation, according to Lindsay, who is working to shore up policy so it's not just lip service.
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But at the very least, a show with an incredibly talented and diverse cast that pays constant lip service to intersectionality could've done a better job of acknowledging it.
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Despite the occasional lip service, Erdogan has done little to demonstrate he is interested in joining a club whose legislation and norms conflict with his personalised style of rule.
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But more often than not he has offered little more than lip service, lines so tired — "at Facebook we take this very seriously," for instance — that they've become parody.
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Kendall Jenner got lip service in the form of a new tatt inside her mouth -- it says "MEOW" but don't be fooled ... the ink is but a smoke screen.
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With local officials judged to a large extent on their area's GDP growth, they had every incentive to pay lip-service to reducing capacity, while quietly allowing new investment.
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This seems like a great idea, but it could have some problems A lot of companies give lip service to women's safety, but it's not always the highest priority.
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We pay great lip service to these workers as the most important in our economy, the work that makes all other work possible, but we don't act like it.
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But, I think they do have to give some lip service to the reason we are doing this, is because of the uncertainty that is being created by trade.
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Rampant allegations of sexual harassment in the tech world, pay discrimination, and racist AI have shown that the supposed objectivity of STEM and Silicon Valley are often lip service.
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But one of Trump's signature characteristics is an absolute shamelessness that frees him from any sense of obligation to even pay lip service to normal values or avoid hypocrisy.
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The 'strong dollar policy,' instituted by former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin during the Clinton administration, has been given lip service by subsequent administrations since, but it could be abandoned.
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The concern from the so-called Bannon base, however, is that the administration will pay lip service to the fiery populist's agenda, only to back down in the end.
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For the meantime, the safety of Copts lies in the hands of a government that has paid lip service to their needs but put little muscle behind its promises.
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Still, Israel read past the lip service and understood that it would have to pay nothing, not even for acts suspected of being war crimes or crimes against humanity.
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If PrideFest wanted to delve deep into the iconography of that culture, it would make sense for Atari to do more than providing lip service to it during marketing.
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Because five years on from the UK's last lesbian-centric TV series (RIP, Lip Service), we're still perpetually desperate for credible primetime portrayals of ourselves on the small screen.
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Recently, the Guardian — which, ironically, argued in 2007 that Dumbledore's outing was shoddy lip-service to the issue of queer representation — took the polar opposite view toward Cursed Child.
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"In the longer term, they need to do something different to bring the deficit under control, not just pay lip service towards the euro," Commerzbank strategist Christoph Rieger said.
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When he dies, the media will pay him lip service for his accomplishments, though the preceding dearth of literature on his decades of work will echo with embarrassing scarcity.
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It hurriedly drafted new reforms that patients, doctors, and pharmacists say paid only lip service to reform and left them no closer to using, prescribing, or delivering the medicine.
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Further, Mr Norman pays only lip service to Mr McCartney's second act with the albums "McCartney", "Ram", "Band on the Run" and "McCartney II", leaving the reader's curiosity unsated.
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It's more than a little dissonant to hear a president who paid such lip service to job creation kick off his administration by calling for people to be fired.
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It is regrettable to witness regional countries joining these dark forces to punish the Syrian people, paying lip service to the idea of peace and diplomacy in the process.
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Unlike many others who give mere lip service to plight of the poor and marginalized, Dr. Carson and his wife Candy have put their money where their mouth is.
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Whether the U.S. fully withdraws or not, in both cases the U.S. has been hamstrung by neighboring countries that appear to only pay lip service to being U.S. allies.
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House leadership of course pays lip service to the idea of party unity, but in practice Democratic leaders view unity as a top-down dictum and not a consensus.
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"For decades, dictators have tried to use the United Nations as a platform to give lip service to human rights and offer cheap promises to uphold peace," said Sen.
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And yet the administration continues to pay lip service to innovations in the recovery market, finalizing a new policy just last week to encourage development of opioid recovery medications.
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Apple has paid lip service to ending its reliance on the ugly business of mining altogether, ostensibly by turning to recycling with projects like Liam, its iPhone-disassembling robot.
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These publications and commentators aren't embracing the kind of real debate that they pay lip service to on campuses; they are spoon-feeding screeds to their right-wing readers.
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Candidates need to stop giving lip service to the protection of our personal information, while their own campaigns continue to lay waste to our privacy on a daily basis.
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Trump, for instance, has gone through multiple rounds of threatening a heavy hand with countries before backing off once he gets at least lip service paid to his demands.
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With exceptions, most of the industry and trade groups are increasingly paying lip service, but are still unwilling to make it a top priority when engaging law- and policymakers.
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While it has taken steps to implement content moderation policies in an attempt to reduce the amount of toxic bigotry on its platform, it has mostly been lip service.
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Although Ivanka Trump has paid some lip service to the gender pay gap, Trump himself pulled back Obama-era fair pay regulations and ignored Equal Pay Day this year.
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The Book of Weirdo doesn't hold Crumb's feet to the fire; it merely pays lip service to the more tainted and toxic aspects of the magazine and its creator.
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""Make sure victims can feel protected if they come forward and you are true to that, not simply that you are providing lip service or have something on the books.
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"It is not enough to give lip service to equality; leaders must demonstrate their commitment through their actions," Collins said in a statement, titled Time to End the Manel Tradition.
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Duke told Fox News Radio he disapproved of Trump's "lip service" in support of Israel, but "I told my people to vote for him in the election" for strategic reasons.
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Make sure victims can feel protected if they come forward and you are true to that, not simply that you are providing lip service or have something on the books.
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"The deeper strategic issues on technology transfer, intellectual property protection, cyber hacking — I think the best we will see is just lip service on agreeing to discuss these," he said.
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One thing that's for sure is that Epstein and Else's departures signal that there's a bigger institutional issue at hand, and lip service from the NFLPA will not cut it.
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"I myself am a brown, queer woman, so for me it was very important that we didn't just give queer storylines lip service or do it for optics," Mejia says.
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By making the tool available to all users, argued one expert, Instagram is proving that it's not merely paying lip service to the idea of combating harassment on the service.
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Both Kenya and Uganda lobbied against America's efforts to impose UN sanctions, despite paying lip service to them, says Zach Vertin, the author of a new book about the war.
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Thankfully Lathan's entrance as Janelle Wilson, Noah Solloway's (Dominic West) new principal, in all her natural hair glory, isn't simple lip service to the need for "diversity" on our airways.
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Answering these questions may be important to determining whether Facebook is an actual ally in user privacy and data collection, or whether it is just paying lip service to it.
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Paying lip service to a day that has deep roots in how we hire women, pay them, support them, and advocate for them without actually doing those things is misleading.
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All pay lip service to the idea that the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), a club of ten mostly smaller powers, should be at the core of FOIP.
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"In the wake of these disastrous events it becomes obvious that the calls by EU politicians to avoid further death at sea sum up to nothing more than lip service."
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For the stock markets regulator, there was only lip service paid by some to anti-graft rules and insufficient oversight over certain "sensitive" posts, though it did not say which.
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But then many of these 'use the opponent's energy against him' martial arts believe in neither sparring nor strength and conditioning or at least only pay lip service to them.
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Still, some question whether Trump truly understands the issues that are important to this bloc or whether he's merely paying lip service in hopes of getting them to the polls.
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Trade unions and labor rights charities, some of them partners in the initiative, say its shortcomings show big stores are merely paying lip service to the rights of garment workers.
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After being dissatisfied with what he essentially thought was political lip service, Lil Chano from 79th tweeted that he hadn't accepted defeat and that he would have a plan today.
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"The professed shock they now express, as well as their promise to investigate, are just lip service: as before, their 'thorough investigation' will once again whitewash the truth," he said.
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Yet an even bigger problem for Europe — as is here in the U.S. — is that the lip service being paid to diversity isn't resulting in the numbers you might expect.
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But the lime was bitter rather than sweet, and while it did add lip-service freshness to the salad, I found myself wishing that the salad would just taste better.
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Once that equation is accepted as conventional wisdom, a shallow mercantile culture allows itself to pay little more than lip service to art as forms of investigation, inquiry, and knowledge.
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He advocates smaller steps that could improve lives on all sides while keeping in mind the ultimate goal of two states, without simply paying lip service to a lofty ideal.
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"You need to pay more than lip service to restoring public confidence in government" said Mr. Martins, a 50-year-old father of four whose family has a construction business.
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Despite paying lip service to the recommendations of the panel of experts and those of other international groups, the government was determined to close the case on its own terms.
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Chris Van Hollen of Maryland accused the administration of giving "lip service to the unlawful detention of Mustafa Kassem and other Americans unlawfully in Egypt," but not doing anything else.
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Jas (Freida Pinto) and Marcus (Babou Ceesay) are lovers who like to pay lip service to black power and immigrant causes but haven't really done much on the action side.
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A task force is the lip service of the federal government, but even so they have a habit of documenting things that others would rather were swept under the rug.
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And we've got a Republican leadership in Congress mired in Reagan-era thinking and trying to pay lip service to every obsolete prejudice in the various wings of the party.
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Lawmakers said that in most cases, they were frustrated with responses they received from companies who, in their view, were only paying lip service to diversity, not taking substantive action.
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In the video above, Coleman Hughes argues that by cherry-picking our heroes, and focusing on small parts of their legacy, we are merely paying lip service to their mission.
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But most of these politicians have usually at least paid lip service to the rhetoric that free trade and free markets are panaceas for all that ails the American economy.
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Cultural change is possible, but the CEO has to be part of the change rather than part of the resistance, and can't merely pay lip service to that change, either.
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Human rights groups often criticize China for only paying lip service to the rule of law and say the Communist Party systematically ignores due process when prosecuting activists and dissidents.
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Now they continue to pay lip service to a candidate who undermines the principles of our party, our Constitution, and our country -- all while violating the most basic rules of civility.
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To be honest, there's not really much different about this version — it mostly an incentive to boost pre-orders and pay lip service to fans bummed out by the name change.
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Despite all of the above, I welcome the newfound attention being paid to this part of the country — as long as attention, and not lip service, is what is being offered.
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But if they remain silent and just give lip service to contrary points of views, then they are part of his agenda and should be judged and held accountable for that.
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The designer isn't simply providing lip service about these causes: McCartney has been outspoken about the fashion industry's wastefulness, even in the high-end market, and why it's a major problem.
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But if they remain silent and just give lip service to contrary points of view, then they are part of his agenda and should be judged and held accountable for that.
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Since the ANC still pays lip-service to being a Marxist organisation, with some members addressing each other as "comrade", it can be hard to distinguish champagne socialists from real ones.
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Whether or not Democrats are able to secure that kind of majority is going to be a bigger driver of policy outcomes than whatever liberal causes Clinton pays lip service to.
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The Republican Party establishment, under the influence of big business, pays lip service to "national sovereignty" but generally supports free trade agreements and often turns a blind eye to illegal immigration.
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Starting off his presentation with talk of privacy, environmentalism, and health, CEO Tim Cook was addressing real, substantive issues that the tech industry often disregards or pays mere lip service to.
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Sure, photo-ops abound, but judging by the colossal artworks, the ambitious menus, and a commitment to sustainability that goes well beyond lip service, this event genuinely wants to be different.
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For ten years, I paid lip service to the process of building a global business from your attic or basement or garage or coffee shop but I never truly understood it.
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Whereas traditional institutions pay lip-service to the idea of work-focused courses, says Peter Crisp, dean of BPP Law School, private ones are more likely to put them in place.
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It's time for elected officials in both parties to stop paying lip service and finally get it done by ending the chase for the perfect in order to achieve the good.
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It would be hard to find a Democrat holding elected office today who will even pay lip service to how immigration affects the interests of American workers, taxpayers, or the environment.
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Sometimes, the Republican leadership and rank and file members will appear interested in the issue of fiscal responsibility while in office, paying lip service to the issue or holding a vote.
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Moscow is playing a double game in Syria by giving lip service to diplomatic efforts while conducting airstrikes that have allowed Mr. Assad to regain the upper hand on the battlefield.
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President Uhuru Kenyatta has said his government has a zero-tolerance policy on corruption, but given the lack of convictions, many Kenyans have come to regard those statements as lip service.
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It's not the whole focus of the show, but the fact that it is thematically supported on every tier and storyline, and given much more than lip service is a step.
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We're told Sam and his crew rolled into the club around 11 PM for their Monday night Lip Service drag show and stayed till about 1:30 AM fueled on vodka.
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Younger and more unabashedly anti-democratic than Netanyahu's cohort of Likudniks, they do not feel the need to pay lip service to the idea of the occupation as a temporary necessity.
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The imperative, exciting diversity sought by Cotter — and many others— in the galleries of all museums will never be more than lip service until it's also achieved in a museum's staff.
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They figured their work on the issues they were concerned about in the city was being taken for granted by the elected officials, who gave them lip service but no action.
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While legislators pay lip service to the importance of charities, in recent years they have failed to adopt policies to ensure that charities get what they need to do their work.
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Executives at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, are focusing on this issue, but it&aposs time for them to take substantive action rather than just paying it lip service.
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When the comedians in the cast pay lip-service to the scripted scenes that anchor each episode, it&aposs fun to spot the actors attempting to compensate and elevate the drama.
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But even this reader, a lip-service Luddite who's tired of interacting with his iPhone first thing each morning, thought Ms. Hoffman was making the case against technology sound too easy.
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Where other presidents may have worn an uncomfortable mask of hypocrisy, paying "lip service" to lofty ideals of "civic virtue," the current president doesn't even pretend to anything so high-minded.
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The decade's theme couldn't be more obvious: either via corruption, incompetence, or apathy, giant corporations routinely pay empty lip service to consumer privacy, before engaging in face plant after face plant.
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Both Trump and Moon have at least paid lip service to the alliance over the past months, but it is apparent that the old phrase "same bed, different dreams" still applies.
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"Historically, we have had a very poor record of plastic ban implementation, with most governments only providing lip service," said Pratibha Sharma from the campaign group Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives.
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But while West German politicians had routinely paid lip service to unification, an official goal since the founding of West Germany in 1949, it was widely viewed as a pipe dream.
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Nonetheless, senators on both sides of the aisle paid lip service to working with the other party for a more bipartisan process on reshaping the tax code to aid economic growth.
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Because everyone says, everyone will at least pay lip service to the idea that they would like diversity, but they don't seem to work as hard at it as you do.
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At the same time, they noted that the wording of the memo suggests Trump does not intend to follow through, and the executive action essentially amounts to lip service to his base.
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The white paper also paid some lip service to protecting rural areas around cities with a commitment to favour developments that are focused on sites that were once used for commercial purposes.
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But after years of belated apologies, stunt casting, and lip service to the ideals of diversity, it seems the industry may finally be ready to put its money where its mouth its.
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Taking these steps would show regulators that Zuckerberg isn't just paying lip service in hopes of getting a more lenient sentence — it would demonstrate he's ready to make change that serves society.
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Two of those remaining, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, still give lip service to being religious -- even if many on either side of religion don't believe them or want to claim them.
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The singer has paid a lot of lip service to the idea of being a better, more respectful person, so perhaps this is just his attempt to live up to his words?
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At the very least, the board's manoeuvrings have dented Tata's reputation as a beacon of sound corporate governance in a country where other conglomerates pay the notion little more than lip service.
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FCC 'looking into' reported error throwing broadband deployment numbers off by millions How else would we catch shady zero-rating practices, zombie cookies, backdoor deals or lip service to existing privacy laws?
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There's a lot of corporate nonsense in there about content platforms and symbiosis, but WWE seems less than committed to USA, even as it pays lip service to its long-time home.
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Many people working in tech have suggested that rather than hiring a truly diverse workforce, tech companies have resolved to deal with their diversity issues with lip service, pandering, and downright dishonesty.
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Although we've adopted principles that pay lip service to that objective, not a single one of the draft recommendations attempts to meaningfully identify any new or significant resources to promote digital inclusion.
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While paying lip service to the principle that any peace deal should be concluded under U.N. auspices, Russia aims to convene its own peace congress in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
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I would argue that if either side took privacy seriously, they would find a loyal constituency that is constantly feeling abandoned and increasingly less involved politically because of the aforementioned lip service.
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Wilson said he views former GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz as a genuine defender of the Second Amendment, not just someone who plays lip service to it in order to get votes.
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At its oozing, poisonous core, Succumb is a death metal band—albeit one with seemingly zero interest in paying lip service to any of the usual tropes we expect from the genre.
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Russian hacking fits into a far larger pattern of Russian predation that for years no-drama Obama has treated as no big deal, responding chiefly with lip service and half-baked sanctions.
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Those men often pay lip service to their queen while backbiting and plotting against her — and the women's best ammunition against said plotting may be to join together and form an alliance.
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This is just the president paying "lip service" to judicial virtues, Mr Grassley says, and Mr Obama's real priority is the third qualification: "an understanding of the way the world really works".
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And in Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, at her swearing-in on May 20th, rejected months of intense Chinese pressure to pay lip service to the notion that there is "one China".
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Old CRT monitors and televisions fill warehouses across the country, and companies like Apple and Microsoft pay lip service to the problem, but often pursue business practices that make the problem worse.
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To date: The violence is a problem with Trump which begins with Trump himself, as Vox's Dara Lind explains: Trump routinely pays lip service to the idea that he doesn't "condone" violence.
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Moreover, they note that the Republican push to limit debate on certain nominations, including those for district court judges, demonstrates that any efforts to depoliticize the confirmation process is simply lip service.
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The sad fact is that despite some lip service given to making conditions for favorable for small businesses, the specific question of how to best help startup companies has barely been discussed.
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He won't have been listening to the President's lip service about "tremendous courage" during the Thanksgiving video conference from his Mar-a-Lago luxury resort last month with military members in Afghanistan.
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"Everyone pays lip service to succession planning, but it takes years, sometimes decades, before companies get around to it," said Frank P. Nagorney, a lawyer in Cleveland who specializes in succession issues.
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" While Le Pen gives lip service to making FN less racist, she continues to decry "anti-white racism," a term strikingly similar to the white supremacist mantra, "Anti-racist is anti-white.
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Krone accused Obama of paying "lip service" to demands that he help Senate Democrats finance the midterm battle and argued there was little incumbent senators could do given the president's approval ratings.
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And yet such bigotry remains pervasive and systemic; the opponents of women's rights often pay lip service to equality, but American culture remains deeply hostile to the idea that women are autonomous.
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The issue arises in trying to convince those at the DNC to relax into the new era, even if only fractionally, and give their communities not just lip service, but actual consideration.
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Deborah Epstein, a law professor who sat on the NFL Players Association's commission on domestic violence, resigned in June 2018 because she was tired of "paying lip service" to domestic violence prevention.
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His most recent work looks at how Americans seem to quickly lose interest in the spectacle of their wars, though lip service is so often paid to the sanctity of military service.
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While Mr. Koum personally got along with Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, he felt the company's board simply paid lip service to privacy and security concerns he raised, according to the executive.
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How many times have you seen people pay lip-service to the ideas you believe in and then turn away from them the moment they have power of some kind in Washington?
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Then there's the exhaustion and ego blow of mothering young children in a culture that pays lip service to the importance of parenting, while failing to support us as we do it.
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At the time, in mid-2011, the Obama administration continued to pay lip service to the priority of veterans issues, yet the three vacancies at the CAVC remained unfilled for several years.
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Mokak said while the Australian government pays a great deal of lip service to closing the gap between the Indigenous population and the rest of the country, targets simply aren't being met.
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Unlike many designers, she did not pay lip service to the house DNA or past styles, preferring to insist that while she was designer, Céline would be what she made of it.
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American presidents used to speak a lot about peace, or at the very least pay lip service to it; now the rhetoric from the White House is aggressive, if not outright incendiary.
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"He has put in his administration the kind of people who are actually pro-life and actually committed to the life issue, as opposed to lip service to get elected," she said.
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Certainly there is still much work to be done in Russia, where soccer officials are notorious for paying anti-racism the most casual of lip service while doing nothing to discourage it.
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Well-intended admonitions to employees urging them to take security seriously by creating strong passwords, to study policy documents and to otherwise do the right things, are too often given lip service.
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On Wednesday, at this year's World Economic Forum, I announced the news that global business leaders — present and future — are doing more than paying lip service to this purpose-first approach to capitalism.
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While Twitter still pays lip service to "the power to create and share ideas and information instantly," it's a far cry from the "free speech wing of the free speech party" of 2012.
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Is Pai just trying to pay lip service to the idea of the open internet while creating a massive set of loopholes through which the broadband industry can lock down the internet entirely?
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Paying lip service to the immigration issue in the summer when tensions are high and then not clarifying where you stand in the fall are exactly the same position of opportunism and emptiness.
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State party leaders sometimes pay lip service to the notion that they would welcome a primary challenger, as their state party rules usually require, but they are already working to ensure Trump's reelection.
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Their conversation was a whirlwind of emotions, touching on the industry's lip-service to diversity, and the adversity Rousteing faced growing up as a Black man in a white adoptive family in France.
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The world needs mining to continue, and these days, with big miners focusing on richer countries with high levels of scrutiny, that means taking corporate governance seriously, not just paying it lip service.
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And by all appearances, it's not just lip service: Ford recently spun off its next-generation mobility initiatives into a wholly owned subsidiary, Ford Smart Mobility LLC, with operations centered in Palo Alto.
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At least that's that they said until 2008, when LVMH handed the reins of Céline to Phoebe Philo, who rejected any lip service to "brand DNA" and washed the company's Aegean stables clean.
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" Ryan's response to the controversy omitted the word "Trump" and paid lip service to the Khan family, saying Captain Khan's "sacrifice—and that of Khizr and Ghazala Khan—should always be honored. Period.
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Joseph N. Cooper, a black Ronald Reagan official who helmed the Labor Department office that enforced equal opportunity hiring among federal contractors, resigned because the administration paid "lip service" to anti-discrimination laws.
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" And, she said about the N.H.L., "If they had let Shaw off without a penalty or fine, then having joined up with the You Can Play project would have all been lip service.
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Rather, at the heart of this genre is a set of conventional beliefs about the relationship between mothers and children — beliefs that persist today, belying the lip service we pay to gender equality.
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Andrew Cuomo has given lip service to voting reform, but he's done almost nothing, with the exception of his decision earlier this year to restore voting rights to 35,000 New Yorkers on parole.
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Anyone who pays lip service to something that sounds nice but is meaningless, like that queer people have a right to exist or something, is avoiding actually supporting the lives of queer people.
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By all appearances, that's not just lip service: Ford recently spun off its next-generation mobility initiatives into a wholly owned subsidiary, Ford Smart Mobility LLC, with operations centered in Palo Alto, Calif.
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"A lot of lip service has been paid to communities of color over the years, but I come from the school of thought that says your budget is your priorities," Mr. James said.
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We pay lip service to the glories of erasing code, of simplifying functions, of eliminating side effects and state, of deprecating complex APIs, of attempting to scythe back the growing thickets of complexity.
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"Business once paid only lip service to this kind of societal discontent but now it has leapt into the void left by populist and partisan government," said report author and CEO Richard Edelman.
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It is no longer enough for companies to pay lip service to "giving back"; businesses have a real responsibility to lead the way in making changes, and consumers are holding them to account.
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Party members paid lip service to the party orthodoxy, and children were still taught it at school, but nationalism, and even bits of warmed-over Confucianism, began to replace the old Communist dogma.
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And what Trump wanted in particular was to close the trade deficit in manufactured goods; despite giving lip service to "great Patriot Farmers," it's clear that he actually has contempt for agricultural exports.
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Hollywood is still gorged with white men, but I wager that most know that they must pay lip service to female empowerment — for the sake of their paychecks if for no other reason.
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But my hunch is that many of them have simply outgrown the need for net neutrality's protections, so they're comfortable paying lip service to the concept without getting particularly invested in the fight.
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Housing policy is back on the national political agenda for the first time in several generations, with multiple candidates rolling out housing policy plans and others at least paying lip service to the idea.
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They pay lip service to investing in Columbus startups and they have invested in a few over the past years, but they are there to be poised for a renaissance, not catch a wave.
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He also tells us what he'd do if the arrest happened to him, and why Starbucks closing up shop for one day in May to train employees on racial bias is just lip-service.
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Yunnan province, also in southwest China, was still paying little more than lip service to rectifying violations, and continued to face huge problems curbing pollution from heavy metal production and livestock farming, inspectors said.
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But others dismissed it as "lip service" and urged Muslim leaders in the region to focus instead on concrete changes such as ending the practice of polygamy and ensuring equal inheritance rights for women.
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This doesn't "demonstrate the viability of one broadband provider overbuilding another," it's just lip service to the idea that these companies don't have a monopoly on what is a vital service in today's world.
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While many continue to pay lip service to the faithful party base, Perriello has created a campaign that moves beyond the rhetoric and is truly responsive to communities of color that are still hurting.
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Yet he has fallen into the same "do nothing", "politics as usual" routine where coastal politicians do little more than pay lip service to Middle America, save for a few months every four years.
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Instead of fighting this narrative, the NAACP chooses the spray-on tan of white activists Shawn King and Rachel Dolezal while paying only lip service to the plight of blacks in our nation's ghettos.
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Career Karma CEO and founder Ruben Harris has said the major US tech firms and Silicon Valley as a whole pays "a lot of lip service" to the issue of diversity within their workforces.
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Considering all of the lip service from Democrats and Republicans on fiscal policy, why does so much of our federal funding go toward these expenditures that seem like random topics selected by dart throws?
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Until we have more corporations like BlackRock making a comprehensive commitment to changing their cultures, women will continue to be trapped in a system that pays little more than lip service to their progress.
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" While giving lip service to the importance of the issue, most "executives had calculated that it cost no more to clean up after a cyber attack than to prevent one in the first place.
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Poroshenko has been accused by activists and opposition politicians, including former Georgia president Mikheil Saakashvili, of either abetting or turning a blind eye to corruption and vested interests while paying lip service to reform.
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Karzai believed, not without reason, that United States officials paid lip service to his concerns, were willing to cut deals behind his back and on occasion plotted to replace him with someone more accommodating.
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There has been lip service given to fixing the inequality, but no one in power ever raised holy hell about it — not the women studio chiefs, not the male studio executives, not the unions.
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The potential value of share grants totaling 12 percent of the company is vast, but at least the Tesla board has done much more than the usual lip service in setting a serious challenge.
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Whatever the case, it's a sorry turn for a man who paid such lip service to the courtesy and collaboration that supposedly distinguished the Senate, which he did, in his way, seem to revere.
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Other countries do things and the Trump administration tries to take advantage of it by virtue signaling, even when the virtues they pay lip service to are ones they've actively denigrated through their actions.
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A 2005 book, "Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education," determined that, all else being equal, top schools do not offer any admission advantage to low-income students, despite lip service to the contrary.
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Moreover, despite paying lip service to unification of the peninsula for reasons of nationalism, it isn't clear that most South Koreans really want to absorb more than 20 million North Koreans into their nation.
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Wrangler's "More than a bum" campaign, from 2016, drew the wrath of critics who said it paid lip service to feminist ideals while reinforcing outdated ideas of what it means to be a woman.
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Watching "Survivor" bungle Kim's complaints, well into the #MeToo era, was like watching a recurring nightmare: A woman is touched inappropriately, she speaks up about it, her concerns are minimized or paid lip service.
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The question now is whether he was ever really serious about taking the painful steps needed to repair the economy, or merely paying lip service to reform to justify his tightening grip on power.
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Many contemporary choreographers pay lip service to the notion of integrating dancers and musicians onstage, but for the past few years the Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has been obsessed with the idea.
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The book is often crushingly grim, but Dikötter also relates many stories of resilience and subterfuge, of ordinary people who paid lip service to "empty slogans" and tried to get on with their lives.
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He gave lip service to net neutrality victories ("we've protected an open internet"), shouted out Silicon Valley, and announced a "moonshot program" to cure cancer that's going to be spearheaded by Vice President Joe Biden.
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What it essentially does is set up a system in which ISPs pay lip service to the idea of net neutrality, though as Reuters noted, those promises will not be enforced by any regulatory authority.
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"Especially an extremely small minority of people among high-level cadres have swelling political ambitions, crave power, pay lip service, form cliques and gangs, and seek power and position and other political conspiracies," Xi said.
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Read more ReadIn the past several months, ISPs have pushed hard to jam a net neutrality bill through Congress that would pay lip service to the fundamental guidelines the Obama-era rules put in place.
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"A lot of advisors give lip service to the idea of financial planning, but the biggest change I see in the last two or three years is the reemergence of financial-planning software," he said.
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One employee referred to it as "mere lip service," adding that the company has lost its right to use the rainbow flag and other LGBTQ branding by allowing homophobic harassment to exist on its platform.
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As if reinforcing that point, Benioff described his frequent conversations with Collison about homelessness, before claiming that Stripe and its CEO, despite paying lip service to the epidemic, have not given to any homeless charities.
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At first, the "20483/22048" commitment made at the 24 Davos meeting—that within 22018 years 50% of CEOs would be female—seemed little more than lip-service to a temporary flurry in public opinion.
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In democracies governed by elites who struggle with each other for power, while paying lip service to equality or liberty—and who sometimes deploy violent means to pursue their goals—his arguments remain grimly compelling.
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Plenty of savvy consumers who believe in gender equality also remain highly critical of empowerment marketing because it pays lip service to a cause without necessarily doing any real or radical work to achieve it.
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On one hand, the company emphasizes the importance of dialogue without defining what constitutes (healthy) dialogue; on the other, it continues to pay lip service to people who are critical of its approach to harassment.
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"The good work of a forward-thinking minority masks that many top businesses are still only paying lip service to improving the representation of women on boards," said the head of the commission, Laura Carstensen.
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They're also part of the broader fabric of an American society that pays lip service to individualists and originals, but makes it extraordinarily hard for anyone without access to resources to live freely and well.
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The easiest was the first, competitiveness, because all EU leaders pay lip service to cutting red tape, signing more trade deals and completing the single market—even though they may object to specific individual measures.
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A "this matters to us, we promise" statement could easily be dismissed as lip service, but the next morning I saw a film that convinced me Sundance was putting its money where its mouth is.
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As a genuine respect for economics is in very short supply in Washington policy circles — although lip service regrettably is always in abundant supply — it's important for us to give credit where credit is due.
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Today, though, we're seeing a mass retailer take a step beyond paying lip-service to inclusivity: Forever 21 is re-introducing its Plus line with a new look and an even larger selection of product.
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Of course, the courts recognize that this convenient reading of FOIA would give the DOJ "carte blanche" to process expedited requests at its leisure, to drag its feet and "pay lip service" to expedited processing.
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For all its illiberal tendencies, the Republican establishment had at least paid lip service to the idea of America as a beacon of freedom and opportunity, open to all willing to do their fair share.
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Google, AOL and Yahoo were all involved in a digital outreach effort around the debates in 2012, but that effort was criticized for paying little more than lip service to the idea of public participation.
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Because if the 215 election has made anything clear, it's that older rural whites are now acting like an interest group, who will vote for any party that even pays lip service to their desires.
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But if Trump's working-class supporters were voting as much for the man as for his message, they were also clearly voting against a party leadership that pays them lip service while ignoring their concerns.
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It is now or never for the Trump administration to decide whether it stands with American farmers and ranchers or just pays lip service to them for political cover as it caters to corporate agribusiness.
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Instead of just paying lip service to community while living for autonomy, I get the sense a lot of people are actually about to make the break and immerse themselves in demanding local community movements.
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" Or, as another person put it to me, it's one thing to speak out, but it's another "to do so in a way that is meaningful and authentic, and not lip service or grand-standing.
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I take a quick shower and do my skincare routine which consists of Cerave under eye cream, The Ordinary retinol, Farmacy Sleep tight balm, Lush Sleepy Lotion on my hands, and Lush Lip Service balm.
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He told Mr. Sisi the United States stood "shoulder to shoulder with you and Egypt in fighting against terrorism," but he avoided giving even lip service to the need to ensure free and fair elections.
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Though Bohemian Rhapsody spends most of its runtime paying lip service to the idea that Queen is a sort of dysfunctional misfit family, in that moment, the distance between Mercury and his bandmates is undisguisable.
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For the time being at least, lip service is being paid to the United Nations' internationally sanctioned Sustainable Development Goals, which set ambitious deadlines to end illiteracy, avoidable disease, malnutrition and extreme poverty by 2030.
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Tucker, Ibaka, and Casey have all given lip service to improved defensive communication (Carroll and Patterson were really the lone frontcourt communicators before), and the amount of yelling, pointing, and timeout instruction is plainly increasing.
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Once, he proposed humanitarian pauses so aid could get into Yemen and went on to criticize his Western colleagues on the Council for paying what he called "lip service" to the suffering of ordinary Yemenis.
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Giving them just one meeting with the secretary "feels a little bit like paying lip service to the importance of having survivors in the room," said Jess Davidson, managing director of End Rape on Campus.
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While we applaud him for paying lip service to the negative consequences and costs of nation-building, we fear that Trump is going down the path of both Bush and Obama in the Middle East.
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Post-apocalyptic fiction too often pays lip service to serious problems like climate change while allowing the reader to walk away unscathed, cocooned in an ironic escapism and convinced that the impending disaster is remote.
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They are more than happy to explore employee investment, robotic assembly lines, and amazing manufacturing techniques in Shenzhen and will pay lip service – but never really come through – on expansion if it suits the company politically.
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The very white, very male, always-hoodie-clad club of founders was the core of the tech industry—and its members were down for some perfunctory bias training and lip service, but not a mea culpa.
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We need to go to forgotten places like Pacific Junction and Seminole -- and not only pay lip service to their problems, but listen to their ideas and welcome them to be a part of the solution.
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Pruitt's inaugural speech pledged his devotion only to the law and histories written by right-wing ideologues, without even the lip service to protecting health or the environment mustered by Reagan's first EPA administrator, Anne Gorsuch.
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Setting aside money for things like R&D is a key aspect in assuring that this sort of thing is more than simply lip service for those concerned the country is at risk of falling behind.
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The federal government lacks the cash to rebuild crumbling roads, and while big investors pay lip service to creating new public-private partnerships, there is no sense of infrastructure being the real priority it should be.
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"Every post-colonial state in South Asia paid lip service to secular principle in the first decade of its existence before reconstituting itself as a kind of sole proprietorship run by its dominant community," he laments.
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Until Frances McDormand took the stage to accept her Oscar in the ceremony's final minutes, the show featured a parade of good-looking, extravagantly dressed celebrities paying important lip service to equality and inclusion in Hollywood.
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With this trip beginning in Saudi Arabia with a $300 billion deal in tow and a clear message for the Iranians, the White House can start to answer that criticism with more than just lip service.
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"The (G-20) statement was seen as not much more than lip service and is not expected to result in any meaningful policy action," said Omer Esiner, chief market analyst at Commonwealth Foreign Exchange in Washington.
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Sure, her lip service to social discourse long ago disappeared into the hunt for ratings, but at the very least, she and Jay have been on the same page about the potential importance of Ruby winning.
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By forcing a vote on overturning the rule, Schumer said Americans will be able to see whether Republicans really support the estimated 130 million Americans with preexisting conditions, or if they were just paying lip-service.
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So, it is long past time for Trump to pay more than lip service to Africa's needs and undertake a substantive visit to this region where he is losing a vast and potentially quite deadly war.
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We don't know who was on hand in Denver last night, but Dr. Richard Ellenbogen's ubiquity throughout the league's various head-related efforts is an example of how the NFL pays lip service to player safety.
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But Mitchell Barak, an American-Israeli political consultant, said Mr. Netanyahu's cultivation of liberal American Jews had dwindled to little more than lip service lately — while rejecting their demands could only hearten his ultra-Orthodox supporters.
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It's easy to find congressional Republicans who are willing to pay lip service to the idea that the DREAMers — who came to the US at the average age of 6 — should not be subject to deportation.
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While there is never any real doubt that "Crazy Rich Asians" will come down on the side of free choice and true love, it does pay lip service to the gravity and durability of other values.
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President Trump, for all his lip service to venerating the military, doesn't go out of his way to mingle with or pay tribute to servicemen and servicewomen; somebody has to make them feel appreciated and important.
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Instead, the United States and its allies pay lip service to the need to end the occupation, but do nothing to steer Israel from its preferred option of perpetuating it: enjoying the dowry, denying the bride.
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The invitation is "just another sign that this White House pays only lip service — if that — to the idea that promoting human rights or fighting corruption redounds to the benefit of the United States," he said.
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It may also be that the strong sanctions being applied against North Korea (to which, for a change, China and Russia seem to at least be paying lip service) is beginning to negatively affect North Korea.
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Despite lobbying by environmentalists and lip service from politicians, illegal house building in Italy has continued apace even as the construction industry as a whole has been hard hit by a triple-dip recession since 2008.
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It paid lip service to protecting human rights in places like Syria and Venezuela, but made clear that the US wasn't particularly interested in promoting democracy or other Western values there or in any other country.
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It has to be on your mind all the time and not in a lip service way, and then you have to fucking, like, hire someone, then you have to, like, hire people who are diverse.
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But if enough Republicans instead decide to play along the myth that Trump was robbed — or even just to pay lip service to it — they'll trap themselves inside Trump's hall of mirrors for years to come.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Four more Chinese regions have been accused of faking efforts to rectify environmental problems and paying only lip service to the country's war on pollution, according to reports published by the environment ministry on Monday.
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What Rock was doing was loosening up the room (by suggesting that Oscar diversity isn't such a big deal), before layering in just how little the film industry actually cares about diversity, beyond paying it lip service.
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They agreed to enter into mediation with the Dakota, but they didn't have to; they could just have easily ignored the outcry and left "Scaffold" in place, or paid lip service to the protests without doing anything.
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By choosing all white men to speak on behalf of the entire country, the Trump administration is once again reaffirming its commitment to white, male supremacy (while paying only the faintest of lip service to women's empowerment).
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"There has been ... a lot of lip service but not enough action," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation on the sidelines of a debate on how to meet the 17 global goals, hosted by the Spanish government.
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And they recognize that even as this administration gives lip service to things such as "women's empowerment" and paid family leave, it is undercutting the very things that ensure women can lead safe, healthy and successful lives.
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When the Commonwealth moves collectively, that is, when all countries are pursuing the same objective of free and fair elections and good governance, it can act against countries that don't even pay lip service to those values.
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The Academy gave some lip service to concerns that were raised and made some changes like setting up a committee, but I haven't seen any substantive change come out from them aside from rearranging some deck chairs.
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Individual takedowns and #MeToo stories will likely affect the workings of circles that pay lip service to the cause of gender equality, but they do not yet threaten the structural impunity of powerful men as a group.
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And, if Republicans want to legitimately claim to be the party of fiscal responsibility, then they must lay out robust plans to tackle waste and inefficiency within the Pentagon- not just give lip service to the issue.
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Kathleen Talbot, Reformation's vice president of operations and sustainability, told Business Insider's Bethany Biron that fast fashion doesn't necessarily have to be bad for the planet, but it's key to take sustainability initiatives beyond mere lip service.
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And if a product that doesn't match that list says it was recommended by the FDA, Johnson said it's probably just throwing in buzzwords to pay lip service to sounding more sellable — but it's not necessarily safe.
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"Earthquake Bird" is well shot and well acted, and with its attention to novelistic detail it does more than give lip service to themes of sexuality, jealousy and the way different cultures categorize and fetishize each other.
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I've talked endlessly here about how Kamala in many ways most represents the empty bipartisan consensus I see in the Democratic primary of paying lip service to progressivism with fake platitudes while playing up woke identity politics.
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Prakash and Blazevic agreed that their new movement needed to turn climate action into more than something people merely paid lip service to; politicians needed to "win or lose" elections because of their position on the issue.
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This latest version pays only lip service to the weepy religiosity of the previous adaptations, which include a mini-series, two silent films (including the 1925 blockbuster starring Ramon Novarro), an animated version and the 1959 juggernaut.
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Nader also said it looks like Sanders is being set up to be manipulated by the Clinton forces, who he expects will give lip service to Sanders's progressive ideals but nothing concrete in return for his endorsement.
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Instead, both lawmakers seem content to settle for an approach that's become common among some GOP lawmakers: They're willing to offer some basic lip service opposing the president, while doing little in the way of actual action.
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All of these moments meant well but felt more like lip service than anything else — that is, until it was time to hand out the "Best Fight Against the System" award, and a descendent of Confederate Gen.
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Approving new education standards while simultaneously denying access to relevant supporting content simply pays lip service to the importance of STEM education without giving science teachers the tools they need to transform students into scientifically literate adults.
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Without the threat of a significant monetary penalty, it will be an open question whether there will be real cooperation from organizations or just lip service about providing assistance while avoiding disclosures that might implicate current management.
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Immigration activists are incensed at what they perceive as a bad-faith effort by Republicans in Congress and the White House to give the issue lip service without putting in the political capital necessary for a compromise.
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When America pays lip service but little more to horrors like the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, instead proclaiming convenient but arbitrary loopholes in our moral obligations, we just give the world's worst bullies more ammunition and power.
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Frequent, well-intended admonitions to employees urging them to take security seriously by creating strong passwords, to study policy documents and to otherwise do the right things, are too often given lip service or overly broad interpretations.
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But many schools weigh the conflict of working with a presidential administration that's paid little more than lip service to these institutions while also acting at odds with racial justice advocates and communities of color in general.
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Some of this may be lip service, and no one should declare victory any time soon, but with social media, single activists like Jesse Jackson are no longer needed to swoop in to generate media coverage—a Twitter
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"Goldman attempts to hold itself out - presumably for public relations purposes - as creating an environment friendly to LGBTQ employees; the reality is that the Bank does little more than provide lip-service to LGBTQ diversity," the complaint said.
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You will enjoy a whole bunch of superficial attention and lip service from culture, advertisers and politicians, but will never receive a credible follow-up in the form of a concrete plan for advancement, support, benefits or retirement.
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There's not a whole lot that's new here, but I did like entries like LIP SERVICE, ROB REINER, OOLONG TEA, MEET UP, ATTA GIRL (Why, thank you, Mr. Dobbin!), DESK SETS, LENS CAP, IT CAN'T BE and SINGSONG.
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"Goldman attempts to hold itself out - presumably for public relations purposes - as creating an environment friendly to LGBTQ employees; the reality is that the Bank does little more than provide lip-service to LGBTQ diversity," the complaint said.
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That's not to say the group isn't paying any lip service to taxes — CNN reported that the group has spent more than $217 million on tax ads this election cycle, $2.53 million of which focused on tax reform.
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The nuclear-weapon states pay lip service to the incremental nuclear disarmament the treaty asks of them while at the same time modernising their forces to face the next 50 years; this makes the nuke-nots ever angrier.
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Throwing money, paying lip service and throwing money at this and that and trying to foster a spirit of innovation, but not really being able to create an environment where it sticks or lasts or builds on itself.
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New York Fashion Week's fall '17 showings were pretty politically-charged, so there was inevitably going to be more scrutiny about how brands not only paid lip service to inclusivity but also actively enacted it at their presentations.
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He pays some lip service to the "two-state solution", the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (and part of Jerusalem) alongside Israel, but the "peace process" is at a dead end.
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Andrew M. Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio joined forces to help elect a Democratic majority in the New York State Senate, a goal to which Mr. Cuomo had paid lip service but had done little to achieve.
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The problem is that only lip service is paid to the memory of 'using the opponent's energy against him' in most dojangs and dojos and rigor mortis has long since set in on the corpse of the notion.
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"Whatever promises, apologies, and misunderstanding explanations Google/YouTube has given to the LGBTQ+, they were and continue to be 'lip service' as described by one LGBTQ+ YouTuber following his meeting with YouTube's management in 2017," the suit states.
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Lip service to de-escalation is meaningless when paired with steady efforts to increase tensions via a perpetual "maximum pressure" campaign which does much to hurt ordinary Iranian citizens and nothing to change Tehran's behavior for the better.
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Service isn't just something Schulz gives lip service to in the press; his mission is to create a company where people are treated with respect and dignity, and he backs this rhetoric up with his money and time.
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His attempt to pay lip service to the ethanol industry while campaigning in Iowa, and then blasting it at events in New Hampshire, shows that he is willing to do and say anything to advance his political interests.
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The other has made millions giving lip service to the poor and downtrodden, calling out the rich publicly and then taking money behind closed doors by giving speeches to the same rich and powerful she had seemingly castigated.
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"I will vote differently in the next election if I see my elected officials supporting tax reform for the big guys, like corporations or special interests, and only give lip service to small-business tax concerns," Arslan said.
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Perhaps the reason is that, despite the lip service to ethical AI development and all the signatures on all the open letters, many of these people are first and foremost concerned with making as much money as possible.
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"The debate that threatened to swallow this year's Oscars continues to dominate — as it should — but the tricky thing with casting diversely is avoiding the kind of tokenism that only pays lip service to the issue," Ferrera writes.
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If Apple truly wants to push the boundaries on sustainability — and not just pay glossy lip-service to reducing environmental impact for marketing purposes while simultaneously encouraging annual upgrades — it has a very long way to go indeed.
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Members of Congress pay lip service to ideas like filing taxes on a postcard, but they continue to perpetuate the current system of mass April immiseration by preventing the most obvious and effective way to simplify tax collection.
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"If we are helping a headquarters with 25,000 employees move in, a stone's throw from the largest housing development in the United States of America, we need more than lip service for the people of Queensbridge," he said.
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One of the unknowns on Sunday will be the role of the Catalan autonomous police, which has paid lip service to Madrid's orders to shut polling stations, but has made clear that its priority is to avoid violence.
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The Davis-Oliver bill includes such essential immigration enforcement measures as mandatory E-Verify for employers and other needed reforms that have one thing in common: they can only be enacted through active presidential leadership, not lip service.
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The fact that major corporations have sustainability departments, that they bother to even pay lip service to environmental and ethical causes, you could argue that this all comes back to the corporate-antagonizing efforts of Rainforest Action Network.
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"It's lip service to get the votes, but they don't want to endorse what I stand for and what I've stood for all my professional career," Chong told The Hollywood Reporter after he was uninvited from the rally.
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Despite paying lip service to fighting the opioid epidemic, Trump has made no move to allocate extra funding to it, and has left key positions in the White House's drug czar office and the Drug Enforcement Administration unfilled.
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Sure, the Obama administration still pays lip service to the notion that Assad is part of the problem and not the solution, and that if the Syrian leader survives through some political transition period he cannot remain beyond that.
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The Leave campaign might have paid superficial lip service to the idea of a global Britain with more room for Bangladeshi immigrants, but make no mistake: this was a racist campaign that ended up causing both death and disaster.
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What Men Want pays mild lip service to the fact that Ali isn't just a woman in a male-dominated space, but a black woman in a space where white men compete to serve a number of black clients.
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Trump has demagogued immigrants and Muslims, barely paid lip service to "conservative principles" on economic issues, impugned the integrity of a federal judge based purely on his ethnicity, and his temperament and basic fitness for office are in question.
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It pays lip service to having characters with individuality and personality, but over and over, the writers forget about all these things, and just throw monsters and mecha at each other in a big, bright game of smashy-smashy.
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And if you look at big-name dramas that have debuted in the 2010s, many have paid lip service to the idea of having a large, intricate world beyond their protagonists, but few have followed through on this promise.
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"She does what she does, which is play lip-service to the things that she thinks she is supposed to say but you can tell very quickly she doesn't really mean it," said S.E. Cupp, a CNN conservative commentator.
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People can pay lip service to the idea, not do much to change their own behavior and either feel great about themselves or think accusations of sexism are basically the equivalent of unintelligible shrieking from Debbie Downer man-haters.
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Price's book was published in February, at the beginning of a year when it feels like tech companies finally started to treat excessive screen time as a liability (or at least do more than pay lip service to it).
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Both the NFL and the Giants paid lip service to the issue of domestic violence while they covered themselves by saying they were going to continue to look at the newly released information which, again, was a written confession.
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Pro-reform activists and lawmakers doubt the "little bird" has the resources or commitment for the job at a time when Ukrainian authorities are trying convince Western donors they are paying more than just lip service to reform promises.
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I think the loyalists, and Damascus—the Assad regime—I think they're trying to pay lip service to the ceasefire agreement, because when they launched this offensive, they essentially stated that this was an offensive against the Islamic State.
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"It's still 1003 percent lip service in the corporate world, but there are some executives who want to support Trump's initiatives," said Howard Rubel, an analyst at Jefferies who covers aerospace and defense giants like Boeing and United Technologies.
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It's easy to chalk that reaction up to embarrassment, as if Congress members had been caught paying lip service to constituents while voting in accordance with other influences: party leadership, polling, lobbyists, interest groups, donors, the dictates of conscience.
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For members of Congress, who routinely pay lip service to the value of small businesses, this will also be a big chance to prove that they really understand there is nothing small about the sector's economic and cultural contributions.
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" And so here we are: The country's largest retailer is, at last, bringing its policies in line with how most Americans feel about gun violence -- making Walmart's announcement register as more than mere lip service to "anti-gun elites.
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"The thing is Obama was willing to speak to systemic issues and a lot of younger people are becoming increasingly disillusioned and cynical because time and time again candidates would pay lip service and not do it," he said.
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So white working-class people were left, not necessarily dismissed, but they've received a lot of lip service from both political parties over the years who were never truly prepared to go all in on the things they most cared about.
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Most entrepreneurs pay lip service to the fact that enhanced algorithms are going to become table stakes in new product offerings so observers can watch that become another engine of growth for the big companies that can get it right.
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Young people have been far too passive about the degree to which their lives are being controlled by commissars of social engineering who pay lip service to liberalism but who are at root Stalinist autocrats who despise and suppress individualism.
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While the administration has paid lip service to the role of the health care system in saving lives impacted by opioid abuse, they've also proposed cuts to the ONDCP and cuts to grants intended to help workers displaced by the crisis.
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Case-in-point: this week's New York Times story highlighting the discrepancy between the lip service being paid to the urgent need for representation behind the camera, and the actual numbers of working women directors listed on major studios' upcoming slates.
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By 1983, advocates had successfully pushed through a law ensuring that disabled beneficiaries could keep their benefits while appeals were underway — with Reagan pulling back on further efforts to purge the program and paying lip service to "truly deserving" disabled people.
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The new Disney film adaptation A Wrinkle in Time, directed by Ava DuVernay (an Oscar nominee for the 2015 historical feature Selma and the 2017 documentary 13th), pays a lot of lip service to that awkwardness but never convincingly captures it.
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The breadth and depth of Hun Sen&aposs crackdown is a break with his historical behavior, where he teased, taunted, threatened and employed violence against his enemies, but usually paid at least lip service to the norms of democratic rule.
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Ivanka may be sincerely supporting causes that are close to her heart and that she feels passionate about, but seeing as how her dad doesn't seem to pay any attention, it's coming off as lip service and not public service.
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There is more lip service than real reform, but a new election law has made some people keener on polls, which must take place by the end of next January, says Jumana Ghneimat, the editor of Al Ghad, a local paper.
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Cersei herself is barred from the funeral of her daughter by orders of King "Butters" Tommen, who gets a nice scene with Jaime, in which some OJ-style lip service is paid to the effort to catching Trystane's real killers.
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Despite Musk's repetitive lip service to "competition" as the foundation for his innovative endeavors involving electric cars and rocketry, his ability to move both projects forward has relied heavily on securing government grants to launch and keep such programs alive.
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There's another election just around the corner: if lawmakers continue to kill us with their apathy and lip service, they need to understand that their political careers will die with us, no matter on which side of the aisle they sit.
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But in order to do so, we have to rethink our approach — step away from the idea of being an industry and live up to being a profession; set aside lip service about putting clients first and actually do it.
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The authors wrote in their Op-Ed that Mr. Trump's white working-class supporters were "clearly voting against a party leadership that pays them lip service while ignoring their concerns" — a revulsion that will not disappear even if Mr. Trump does.
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"He only paid lip service to warmongering comments, but he spent most of the speech assuring Russians that he was aware of day-to-day hardships," Alina Polyakova, a Russia expert at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington, told me.
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Yet few candidates, from local mayoral races all the way up to the Senate, provide lip service to the fact that millions of Americans still lack access to broadband, and even fewer flesh out a robust policy to address it.
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One member of the panel, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, abruptly quit his position last week, claiming the panel's only real purpose was to protect incumbent ISP business interests while paying empty lip service to broadband competition and better, cheaper service.
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So when Cespedes told reporters late in the season that he wanted to re-sign with the Mets, and Sandy Alderson, the Mets' general manager, said after the season was over that the feeling was mutual, it was not lip service.
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It's why a lot of anti-abortion conservatives and groups have supported politicians like Roy Moore in Alabama, politicians who offer lip service to the pro-life movement but have lived and acted in a way that undermines its integrity.
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Steptoe was "paying lip service to diversity in its work force, and even counseling the firm's own clients on policies to avoid pay discrimination," her lawyer, Lori E. Andrus of Andrus Anderson, a San Francisco law firm, said in legal papers.
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"We are going back to enforcement chaos — they are going to give lip service to going after criminals, but they really are going to round up everybody they can get their hands on," immigration lawyer David Leopold told the Times.
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So while she may have a--give lip service to progressive issues, she led the charge, and there she definitely did, in Haiti, to push down the minimum wage from 60 cents an hour down to 40 cents an hour.
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So Trump would be wise to keep his hard-core base happy with playing lip service to the wall and building a fence here and there without putting too much effort in it and allocating too much money for it.
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"Republicans paying lip service to an issue they know is important to voters without actually doing something substantive to address it — and in fact actively blocking Obama administration's efforts to address it — is kind of an old story," Earnest said.
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"Voters across the political spectrum are fed up with politicians who pay lip service to the dignity of work but do nothing to reward struggling, hardworking families," Jonathan Schleifer, executive director of the Fairness Project, said in a statement Tuesday.
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While some of the world's wealthiest have become advocates against the policies that some say let them accumulate their billions, critics allege that many are in Davos to simply pay lip service to solving issues like growing inequality or climate change.
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In a clear sign of frustration with the Kremlin, Hammond scolded Putin for paying lip service to a political process aimed at ending the civil war while also bombing opponents of Assad who the West hopes could shape Syria once Assad is gone.
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While China has clearly become the dominant partner, and its One Belt, One Road strategy unilaterally consolidates Beijing's influence over central Asia at Russia's expense, China has been careful to pay the Russians lip service and accord them the face that Moscow craves.
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But if he doesn't, the next years will afford us an opportunity -- unprecedented in this magnitude in the history of the American republic -- to demonstrate the depth of our commitment to the founding principles to which we so readily pay lip service.
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Apple's release of Chinese classical instruments has been heralded by many as a chance for the company to pay lip service to its second-largest market after the U.S., but its implementation of the instruments reflects at least a thoughtful representation of them.
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IRAN WILDCARD It seems that while Washington is paying lip service to the idea of negotiating a new nuclear agreement, the real aim of the hawks in the Trump administration is regime change by forcing impoverished Iranians to revolt against their rulers.
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Time will tell if Second Home LA actually benefits the community in which it's located, or if it's simply a commercial enterprise sold with lip service to buzz words like community and diversity, but little understanding of the city's true dynamic complexity.
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Her call for regulation is a big moment for the tech industry; it should also serve as a wake-up call for these companies to do more than just pay lip service to the problems their dominance is causing in the marketplace.
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Though the overall evening ultimately seemed more about paying lip service to the idea of resistance than spurring real action, Lee and Heyer's presence made tangible the entertainment industry's connections to the world outside its door — even if only for a moment.
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And even those countries that didn't abide by those principles were still subject to shame and still had to at least give lip service to the idea, and that provided a lever to continually improve the prospects for people around the world.
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The best way we have seen for engaging developer community is to show them how to build really cool things, then we can hire developers to do that, and showcase that to the community to show that it's not just lip service.
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I'm so, so sick of watching people pay lip service to the value of autistic life while funding research into prenatal testing for autism at one end and supporting euthanasia for autism on the other, all in the name of preventing suffering.
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Rob pays lip service to his mom and sisters about going to San Diego for the party, but it's obvious (especially if you've already seen this all play out this season on Rob & Chyna) that he's going to be a no-show.
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So if you want to dress up as The Donald himself and stay true to some version of his lip service to American manufacturing (remember that his own clothing line isn't made in America) you're going to have to go the DIY route.
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The Wolverine actor spilled about being a huge a fan of beloved singer-actress Olivia Newton-John – so big, in fact, that he literally paid lip service to the Grease star as a youngster growing up in their shared homeland of Australia.
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While it pays lip service to being a startup hub, we just published an article examining how one promising high-profile startup, Metail, has been cut off from hiring more key workers over a rather dubious set of accusations by the Home Office.
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For a long time, the youth vote was derided for its overvalued position in the hierarchy of campaign targets; it was a mirage—best given lip service and then left unpursued as the resources necessary to secure it wouldn't be worth the reward.
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"A few prior EPA Administrators have given lip service to regulatory reform, but they have always focused on leaving an environmental legacy," said Jeff Holmstead, a top EPA official in the Bush administration and a former frontrunner to be the No. 2.
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Despite paying lip service to fighting human trafficking, the administration's approach to immigration actually heightens the risk of human trafficking in the United States, making victims less likely to report their traffickers to law enforcement and making them more vulnerable to exploitation.
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"The House and Senate both gave lip service to working in the interests of patients while taking tens of thousands of dollars from the "Have's" (those who have a license) and the "Have Not's" (those who want a license)," the email said.
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The group gave their family a shout-out after winning the award and, clearly, it was no lip service 'cause Quavo showed off his fam bam when paps started snapping ... and he wanted 'em to get a good look at his proud mama.
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The Democratic Party sometimes pays lip service to rebuilding manufacturing communities via new job training and the like, but never seems to make doing so a priority — a bitter irony for those who remember when the Democrats were the party of labor.
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"These efforts pay cheap lip service to improving scientific integrity and transparency, but their true purpose is to undermine the decades of sound science on which EPA relies to protect our air, water and the health and safety of the American people," Rep.
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"When we talk about personnel, we don't mean advisers who just pay lip service to Hillary's bold agenda, coupled with a sigh, a knowing glance, and a twiddling of thumbs until it's time for the next swing through the revolving door," she said.
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The momentum is growing, and we should hope that the #MeToo movement can make its way far enough into the halls of Congress to bring about real change rather than lip service followed by a return to the previous, now unacceptable, norm.
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They had to acknowledge the systemic misogyny of the entertainment industry and at least pay lip service to making a difference going forward — and, with the Golden Globes being a Hollywood event, they had to do so while being self-congratulatory and glitzy.
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If the game is any indication of what the film, due later this month, is like, it seems to be largely a love letter to their own franchise, giving excited lip-service to specific goofy guns that only diehard fans might recall.
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For all the lip service that Silicon Valley has given to "changing the world," when ProPublica tried to buy targeted ads for "Jew haters," Facebook didn't question whether this was good, or right — they asked them how they'd like to pay for it.
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Not only are her Holocaust books extensively researched, and their departures from historical fact scrupulously noted, but her fantasy framing devices also reflect a kind of imaginative humility about the difficulty of "truly understanding"—something to which Boyne pays only lip service.
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Having the dogs speak English lets a presumed Western audience relate to them, but ironically, the movie in many ways turns the Japanese characters into an Other, even though it's about reconciliation between different groups and pays lip service to Japanese culture.
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"They will give lip service to listening to you, but you really know it's a futile effort," said Frank Goldsmith, a resident of Buncombe County, which includes Asheville, and member of the activist group Carolina Jews for Justice, referring to the Republican Congressmen.
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Elected officials of both bodies will pay lip service to the idea of working together, and some of the more Panglossian pundits will express the hope that even this divided Congress will produce a deal on infrastructure spending or prescription drug prices.
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But while the industry has largely paid lip service to the threats from Apple and other smartwatches, there are growing concerns that the decline may be more secular than cyclical, as younger consumers opt for smartphones or smartwatches to tell the time.
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This is, I believe, one of the most troubling aspects of this speech and the shift in American policy under Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson — a complete abandoning of even paying lip service to civil liberties, free press, human rights.
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When power players like Michael B. Jordan and Paul Feig step up to announce they're adopting inclusion riders, it sends a message to their colleagues, to their fans, and to the rest of the world that paying lip service to diversity isn't enough.
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Untethered from the pressures exerted on him during the Obama administration to pay lip service to the idea of Palestinian statehood, Netanyahu let loose his real feelings on the subject in the presence of a president far more sympathetic to his worldview.
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"In that sense, reality seems to suggest that the US is willing to turn a blind eye or basically pay lip service to human rights and democracy while they allow interests to dictate the political foreign policy agenda," Virak told VICE News.
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While House Speaker Paul Ryan touts his support for bipartisan legislation to end harassment and misconduct committed by members of Congress, and other Republicans make changes within their own offices, the Trump White House is not even paying lip service to reform.
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"The city of Dallas itself, the elected officials, people who paid lip service to this family, have acted like politics as usual," he said, explaining that the family will continue to push for police reform in the city as they fight for Guyger's conviction.
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Before you start channeling your anger at me and start giving me lip service of how arrogant, closed-minded, showboat-y and selfish Cam is to you, allow me to share some reasoning behind why Newton is overtaking your Twitter timelines and Facebook News Feeds.
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Although Berlin has long paid lip-service to forming a "European defense union", the white paper is one of the most significant for Germany in recent years and may be seized by anti-integration Brexit campaigners as a sign where the bloc is heading.
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Yet Mr Putin may pay some lip-service to the notion, perhaps agreeing to another vague ceasefire or limits on Iranian forces near the Israeli border, in the hopes of getting Mr Trump to withdraw American troops from Syria's east and south in return.
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If anything, it makes it clear that it is now more important than ever to pay attention to the actions — not just the lip service — of the people who do hold power, so it can't be used against the people who need help the most.
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In the letter, the authors decry that union for both "severing of the link between sex and gender" and the GOP's history of holding "investors and 'job creators' above workers and citizens," writing: Yes, the old conservative consensus paid lip service to traditional values.
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Mary Queen of Scots is mainly focused on Mary and on Elizabeth, and the ways they both have to deal with the collected passions of the disloyal men around them — who often pay lip service to their respective queens while plotting behind their backs.
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"Hopefully he'll give us some clarity on what the Saudis' commitment is — freezing production or doing more to stabilize the market," Kilduff said, noting that market watchers wonder if this is just lip service or a game they are trying to play against Iran.
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Sadly, only lip service was paid to behavioral health by the previous administration's whose agenda furthered the familiar pattern of limiting access to treatment, casting millions to the shadows of our healthcare system and dragging their feet on the implementation of mental health laws.
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Arab governments may pay lip service to the concerns of young people—the United Arab Emirates this year appointed a 22-year-old woman as minister of youth (along with new ministers for tolerance and happiness) but most rulers view young people as a danger.
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Secretary Pompeo, alongside U.S Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, Sam Brownback, should be commended for not simply paying lip service to the core human right but also identifying concrete actions to intervene on behalf of oppressed and beleaguered communities and prisoners of conscience.
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"In an incredibly short order, Sunrise has completely shifted the parameters of the debate, and the majority of serious [presidential] contenders are at least paying lip service to a Green New Deal," the longtime activist and author Naomi Klein told me over the phone.
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The industry needs to do more than just recognize its image problems, it needs chief executives to make presenting and promoting a better picture their top priority, not just something they pay lip service to before handing off to junior, under-resourced public relations teams.
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But, large corporations also have to make a choice that, if they are going to do more than pay lip service to the democratic ideal that allowed them to flourish in the first place, they have to worry less about margins and more about people.
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And "Old Town Road," a casual hip-hop production shrink-wrapped in a pastiche of Western-themed catchphrases and sounds, forced some kind of reckoning — maybe lip service, maybe deeper — in and around the country music business about just what its boundaries are, and why.
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But with issues that have gone on and off the government's agenda, such as vaccine safety, local officials are more likely to adopt a wait-and-see attitude for fear of making a mistake — paying lip service to directives but essentially shirking their responsibilities.
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In a video posted to Facebook, her lawyer Tiega Varlack said that Facebook "merely paid lip-service to its stated goal of diversifying its employees," and that "when Boone Talton complained to management she was shunned" and excluded from meetings and social activities with colleagues.
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In the past, Democratic candidates often just paid lip service to rural voters, said former U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, who founded the One Country Project to help Democrats broaden their rural appeal after she lost her re-election bid last year.
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Finally, law firms that hire large numbers of female lawyers, but who, statistics show, often don't pay them as well as the male lawyers, or promote them at the same rates, must stop paying lip service to diversity and take concrete steps to change.
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After all, if you can't cut $30 billion – that shouldn't have been added to the budget in the first place – then why would the American people believe that promises to reform government and tackle federal spending in 2017 are anything more than lip service?
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"If these people — LGBTQ migrants who have been assaulted for who they are in the camps, disabled people, children — do not meet the criteria for 'vulnerable populations,' then the 'vulnerable' exemptions in 'Remain in Mexico' are lip service," the organization said in a statement.
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Despite its continuing lip service to the objective of denuclearizing North Korea, China continues covertly to supply North Korea with oil and it has long been apparent that it will not allow American power to endanger North Korea let alone strike at it militarily.
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"Even though they gave reassurance, people here will hold them to it, and it will make matters worse if these reassurances just pay lip service to those concerns and make it that much harder to rebuild trust in what is an indispensable partnership," he said.
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But, more importantly, so that we're doing more than just talking, we need to elect representatives that don't merely give lip service to it all but who actually believe it is a necessary thing to do before we pass the point of no return.
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It's easy for CEOs of big public companies and billionaires like Warren Buffett to offer lip service to higher tax rates (the U.S. Treasury takes contributions, you know), but for credit-constrained family businesses that have to make payroll, they are a gut punch.
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Shared antipathy to Iran has brought Israel closer than ever to the Gulf monarchies, while the tactical alliance with evangelical Christians in the United States and the European far right gives Israel friends who don't feel compelled to even pay lip service to Palestinian rights.
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Gioia characterizes the lip service the music industry pays to social issues as a decades-old problem: MTV and the rest of the business largely slept through the AIDS crisis in the 1980s; this time, Gioia says, economic inequality has become the forgotten issue.
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It wasn't just early and obvious missteps with voters of color — detractors say O'Rourke's campaign continued to pay only lip service to black and Latino voters, doing too little to connect with everyday people in communities of color or support black candidates running for other offices.
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"So now the idea that they're all of a sudden going to turn around and do things differently is not believable," Ellis said, accusing the Trump administration of paying "lip service" to fiscal restraint while watching the federal deficit cruise to $53 trillion under the president's leadership.
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If the onstage apology is shorter than the post-show afterparty, it will make clear that the contrition tours of 2017 and 2018 have been little more than lip service, and we can expect more of the same old fuckups and same old promises to do better.
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With so much lip service being paid to the fiction of the student athlete and coaches talking about their responsibilities in shaping boys into men, these kinds of decisions should put to rest the idea that college athletics is anything more than a bottom line business.
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To China's liberal intelligentsia—an embattled band including free-market economists, reformist lawyers, retired officials and some business executives—such propaganda stokes fears that Mr Xi is only paying lip service to reform while harking back to the bad old days under Mao, when dogma trumped pragmatism.
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"But if they remain silent and just give lip service to contrary points of views, then they are part of his agenda and should be judged and held accountable for that," added Clinton, whose new book on the 2016 campaign, What Happened, hit shelves on Tuesday.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - A year after Qatar Airways boss' remark that a woman could not do his job drew scathing criticism, airline executives called out the industry for paying only "lip service" to diversity and not pushing to get more women out of cabins and into boardrooms.
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If the company's vacation policy is featured prominently in a job posting or an "about" section, or if a hiring manager brings it up proactively in an interview, these are all good signs that the company isn't just paying lip service to the concept of vacation time.
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If you buy into the lip service, Roam sounds less like an Airbnb you booked without noticing you'd have to split the place with four strangers and more like a community-focused Soho House, the private and much pricier club with locations all over the world.
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A chronicle of the Indian team winning its first Olympic gold medal in field hockey after gaining independence from the British in 1947, "Gold" seems to want to conflate sporting success with the rise of a newly independent country, but pays lip service to this theme.
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There weren't any true upsets, most of the acceptance speeches either avoided politics completely or addressed the current climate in fairly broad terms, and moreover, despite the lip service paid to inclusion, representation, and change, it became clear that the road ahead is still a long one.
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Like Mr. Newsome, Ms. LaBeija (in the program note) pays lip service to the virtues of improvisation, but high-level improvisation is as rigorous a discipline as choreography, and much of "Untitled," mixing bits of vogue with shallow borrowings from ballet and other forms, lacked sustaining power.
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Everyone running for the Democratic nomination pays lip service to the need to address mass incarceration, and what were once essential political instincts—to side with the police and the prosecutors in every instance, to "get tough on crime"—have become, at the very least, negotiable.
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In interviews Gaethje has reflected on the risks of his style and seems to at least play lip service to the 'get in, get rich, get out' philosophy that keeps fighters hungry and prevents them from hanging around into their forties, suffering sadder and sadder defeats.
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Indeed, although President Obama paid lip service to a new approach when he pledged to "refine, and ultimately repeal" the AUMF, his administration's proposal for a new force authorization against ISIS didn't even mention the pre-existing 2001 AUMF, much less include a provision for its repeal.
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