Sentences with phrase «lip service by»

Too often it's simply given lip service by a short phone call to opposing counsel without discussing the issues.

Theresa May and Amber Rudd are paying lip service by offering compensation to those affected, but their apologies ring hollow.

While that can be merely lip service by an executive to assuage tension and anger, and protect the brand, Johnson instantly put the wheels of change in motion by scheduling meetings with city officials.

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Employees will see these habits as lip service with no real value if they don't see leadership by example.

While dozens of businesses pay lip service to this reality, only a relative small number have abided by it.

Accordingly, most American businesses aren't that concerned with the corporate tax rate of 36 percent and the lip service paid by politicians to reduce it.

Lastly, and most importantly, you need to live and die by these values if you expect them to be more than just lip service and words on a wall.

The company, founded and still run by Jeff Bezos, rejects many of the popular management bromides that other corporations at least pay lip service to and has instead designed what many workers call an intricate machine propelling them to achieve Mr. Bezos» ever - expanding ambitions.

At the time, Ben and I had been investing and operating in the city for over a decade and we were consumed by a belief that we could make a real difference if we stepped away from the traditional model - a model that we felt was dominated by lip service about «hands - on» investing, but that was sorely lacking in GPs who were willing to spend real management company resources to build capabilities that mattered.

It does little but pay lip service to the important recommendations made by her personally appointed climate experts.

Obama is not a Muslim or a Christian, he is trying to appeal to Christians and Muslims by paying lip service to both religions, and sometimes the consequence is those who think he must actually have a religion perceive him as being duplicitous.

Many governments now have ministries of the environment (or similar agencies), but they often pay only lip - service to the grave issues raised by the endangered eco-system.

Although it is now clearly demonstrated that the most cost - effective step for most utility companies and industries is to invest in more efficient equipment so as to reduce the use of fuel, the energy policy of the Bush administration, supported by prevailing preferences among economists, gives only lip service to this approach.

Their move to a Catholic church was taken as meaning only one thing: that despite the lip - service being paid by the diocese to the teaching that «non-celibate gay people should not be given Communion», the diocese of Westminster was in fact giving its tacit approval and support to a situation in which that was precisely what was happening, in a setting in which the Pope and the teaching of the Church were regarded with hostility and held up to contempt.

We have to stand by freedom and not just pay it lip service.

And, we beseech thee, give us that due sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful, and that we show forth thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives; by giving up ourselves to thy service and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days.4

So much of the church today seems to only have a lip service love for the world but demonstrates the contempt in their hearts by their actions.

They are «evangelical» in name only, because all your time can (and will) be consumed by the «needs» of the church, and thus the real need for sharing the good news of Jesus with the non-believing community is given only lip - service.

I urge all Evangelicals to stand up for the truth, and not to be intimidated by the religious war of the hypocrites who likes to use the Word of God as a cloak of maliciousness against you during their lip service!

12A - 13) We pay lip service to the ideal, but face a pastoral reality in which harmony or unity is achieved only by rejecting the gifts of some.

You come along and tell me I am not just deceived, but that I place my standards higher than God's, that I simply give lip service, accused me of not believing God, of being influenced by Satan, stated I am condemned by Jesus and the apostles, stated I have arrogant pride in myself over the Word of God, (need I go on?

His practical philosophy was «to show forth Thy praise not only with our lips but in our lives, by giving up ourselves to thy service».

The reason many decent people shun football and look down on those who support and play it, is precisely because there is so much bad behaviour, defiance of refs, deliberate breaking and bending of the rules and sheer hypocrisy by football people who pay only lip service to this change but actually have not the guts, honesty or decency to change it for the better.

I was media - savvy enough to understand that the pro-breastfeeding pamphlet included in my Similac - sponsored gift was just lip service, but obviously they were sending mothers a mixed message by offering free formula samples along with a small booklet of advice to help with all the potential problems we might face if choosing to breastfeed: Breastfeeding is hard.

Or, will they decide instead, as I told ESPN's «Outside the Lines», to continue to pay lip service to those concerns and patronize women by conducting «mom» clinics to teach us how to tackle correctly instead of running «dad» clinics to teach the coaches - almost all of whom continue to be men - what they need to do to keep our kids safe?

Every resurgence of the conflict fosters Iran's interest by shedding light on the United States blind support of Israel and lip service to freedom.

While some gun rights advocates hailed the MOU as a step in the right direction toward their ultimate goal of full repeal, something to which the governor would never agree, others derided it as meaningless lip service, and an effort by Cuomo to help Flanagan placate those on the right who are still seething over his «yes» vote on the SAFE Act in January 2013.

Very few did more than pay lip service to those struggling to get by.

Back then, many liberals were disappointed by their party's leaders and felt they gave only lip service to their liberal base.

We believe successive Governments need to recognise the «Office of Constables» and not by simply paying lip service to the role.

He blasted the mayor for paying «lip service» in his plan to close Rikers in 10 years and called called the Raise the Age bill, passed earlier this year and backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a «watered - down» version of the one advocates wanted.

... Despite all the lip service paid to localism by the government, what has actually changed?

Their valiant attempt to involve themselves in the selection of the shadow cabinet has, predictably, been paid only lip - service by the leadership.

Addressing a press conference in Goaso yesterday, the Minority Spokesman on Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu - Afriyie Akoto, said the government was paying lip service to agriculture by implementing feeble, inappropriate and contradictory policies that had plagued the performance of the sector.

Lip Service: Smiles in Life, Death, Trust, Lies, Work, Memory, Sex and Politics by Marianne LaFrance.

But the industry will have to do this largely by itself, as neither the Bush Administration nor Congress seems prepared to give the task of rejuvenating the IT industry much more than lip service.

I've never considered myself much of a feminist, but when I was confronted by a condescending pharmacist — who paid lip - service to gender equality but undermined it in his actions and assumptions — I felt like refusing the free meal and burning my bra in front of him.

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But all his talk about being honorable, noble and trustworthy becomes nothing more than lip service when King Theodore (Billy Connolly) and his citizens are attacked by their enemies, the Biefuscians.

Matvei and the boys serve a dual function: They get to blow some shit up under the aegis of escorting our ragtag bunch of survivors to their final destination, and they're encouraged to pay lip service to some faux - patriotic Fatherland love, but even these sentiments, obnoxious though they are in principle, are so bland and by the numbers that they're too meek to chafe.

From host Jimmy Kimmel's opening monologue to speeches by presenters and winners alike, much lip service was paid to the industry's newfound commitment to combatting its own ingrained sexism and racism.

by Walter Chaw Where the first season ended with at least lip - service to ambiguity and frustration, the second runs a disturbingly cheery course of happy horseshit and the worst kinds of Dr. Phil - isms while canonizing our Sainted Paul (Gabriel Byrne) on the cross of other peoples» problems.

Red Sparrow pays lip service to equality, with a moment of full - frontal male nudity — much briefer and explicitly not sexualized, unlike Dominika's multiple moments of nudity — and by giving her a sex partner of her choosing, CIA agent Nate Nash (Joel Edgerton).

Speaking of lip service, the film offers a glimmer of hope that it might address real - life issues by referencing the job crisis faced by technology - challenged middle - aged people, and then later acknowledging the often bleak prospects even for the brightest and most ambitious college graduates in today's job market.

When Sparks and his team in Charlotte were revamping their curriculum to focus more deeply on socialemotional learning, abandoning lip - service measures such as the Character Trait Word of the Month and other window dressing in favor of devoting a full 45 minutes to Morning Meeting, they were questioned by some in the school district.

Despite his «read my lips» campaign pronouncements, Malloy went before a joint session of the Connecticut General Assembly six weeks ago and proposed a budget that increased taxes by hundreds of millions of dollars, shifted hundreds of millions more in state spending to the state credit card and proposed devastating cuts to a broad array of vital state services.

It will be expensive, but it is what teachers need have a radical solution to stop the endless workload rhetoric offered by politicians in lip - service conferences typically attended by few classroom teachers, but filled instead with school leaders, policymakers and educators.

Lip service about change — and that's what most families will initially conclude when they hear from school officials about a desire to value parent feedback — will always be trumped by action in the public's eye.

Still, it's telling that Maserati doesn't even bother paying lip service to tradition by offering a manual gearbox.

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