1. Don't give me any lip service.

2. All the parties pay lip service to environmental issues.

3. Unhappily, he had done no more than pay lip service to their views.

4. The machinists only pay lip service to the safety regulations and one day soon there is going to be a nasty accident.

5. We need to stop paying lip service to them.

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6. Politicians pay lip service to crime.

7. They gave money; they gave lip service.

8. They wonder if your support is mere lip service.

9. Local authorities are expected to pay more than lip service to this requirement.

10. They pay lip service to equality but they don't want to have to do anything committed about it.

11. Cynics may call it lip service, considering the almost daily stream of new fund-raising allegations stemming from his 1996 campaign.

12. Most politicians have only paid them lip service, they complain.

13. Previous governments have paid lip service to the idea but achieved little.

14. That they were now even giving lip service to these ideas is significant.

15. The conventional methodology tends to pay lip service to user involvement.

16. Society pays noisy lip service to monogamy but, in reality, encourages affairs.

17. However, lip service is often paid to the desirability of delegation without accompanying it by actual practice.

18. This is in spite of the lip service paid to the proud independence of the States.

19. Are we delicate mistletoe, paying lip service to the green theme, or full-blown Lincoln green?

20. The professors all pay lip service to welcoming every point of view, but most really do not.

21. It pays lip service to local choices but provides no specific means to make them more rational and efficient.

22. Little has really changed despite lip service paid to the democratic process.

23. But the 49ers, while they give lip service to making the team younger, are more interested in short-term results.

24. The hon. Gentleman should be ashamed of the lip service that he has paid to employment by continuing to outline such policies.

25. She still did lip service to the old ways, while herself nibbling away at forbidden fruit.

26. It has been a problem, despite all the lip service given it over the years.

27. Though everybody pays lip service to performance, politics is often the ultimate arbiter of their fate.

28. She claims to be in favour of training, but so far she's only paid lip service to the idea.

29. Unfortunately, the system is such that we often pay only lip service to this very important area.

30. Some made a good job of the sandwich element, but many paid it lip service.

1. Don't give me any lip service.

31. John paid lip service to Helen's new hairstyle.

32. He was merely paying lip service.

33. Unfortunately, such views are not so influential in this age of economic determinism, even if governments often pay lip service to them.

34. That was merely lip service, you should not believe him.

35. Lip service is paid to Palestinian goals, but the radical terrorist agenda would not be satisfied by Palestinian statehood.

36. But I just think that it's time that we paid lip service to our lip service.

37. During election season some politicians give only lip service to their voters.

38. They praised the judge, but it was all lip service.

39. Trades unionists pay only lip service to the need for research.

40. People pay lip service to their dreams of freedom, but many feel frightened by it.

41. They pay lip service to education, but don't work for better schools.

42. They paid only lip service to the need for research.

43. Despite much lip service to the contrary, decision making remains the prerogative of top managers.

44. He lip service to religion just because it was good for business.

45. Far better to have your leaders pay lip service to "freedom" and "human rights" as they coercively mold you into a docile little manikin fit for their desired bureaucratic utopia.

46. I know that it is not the rightway to pay lip service to Mother'slove.

47. First, Maoism was based on the belief that the peasantry is the principal revolutionary class, even though lip service was ambiguously paid to the principle of "proletarian leadership."

48. Acquire a selection of boxsets to watch while snuggled up in the evening, such as Prisoner Cell Block H, Bad Girls, The L Word, and Lip Service.

49. Don't give me lip service. I want to see some action!

50. Petty despots and tin-pot tyrants often pay lip service to democratic ideals to give their regimes an aura of legitimacy.

51. "Many of these companies, such as Foursquare, are only paying lip service to privacy concerns,(http://)" says Stamper.

52. He paid lip service to religion just because it was good for business.

53. Some people pay lip service to education, but don't vote taxes for better schools.

54. CMEA members have reverted to separate bilateral deals with lip service to multilateralism.

55. I paid lip service to the theory of recovering the lost territory.