Sentences with phrase «lip service to states»

There is only lip service to states» rights and parental control, but centralized control, that has increasingly killed academic achievement while indoctrinating instead of educating, continues virtually unabated.

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«Moderate» Palestinian officials since Arafat have offered lip service to two states and peaceful co-existence with Israel, but with a right of return, and with implied assurances to their own people that such a deal is only an interim step to Israel's ultimate demographic eradication.

Even in Great Britain and the United States, however, where lip service is still paid to individual liberty, those who conscientiously feel that allegiance to God must lead them to refuse compliance with some of the demands of the state find their way hard.

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.

And many of them gladly paid lip service to voluntary reform efforts such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, a program created in 2002 to prevent corruption in resource - rich states.

So far, the Länder (states) have only paid «lip service» to international marketing efforts, he suggests.

How will we know whether states and cities that faithfully implement their new standards are faring better than those that only pay lip service to them?

While all states pay lip service to the importance of education, budget allocations often do not match the rhetoric.

«As a country, we're better at giving lip service to the importance of teachers than at preparing them to be successful,» said Mike Magee, CEO of Chiefs for Change, a coalition of two dozen results - oriented state education Chiefs and district superintendents.

Though the Common Core State Standards, the content guidelines for Sandra's and her peers» courses, claim to promote «college and career readiness,» the career part seems like mere lip service; the nationwide dearth of trade and vocational programs for students is evidence to that.

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.

While Connecticut's leaders have paid lip service to the value of high - quality preschool, they have not made a serious effort to address the inequity of preschool access in our state.

However, is this a sign that teachers across the state could be joining the ranks of teaching professionals in some other states and countries which pay more than lip service to the importance of education and the influence of highly effective teachers in the lives of children Maybe, but probably not.

It will take more than lip service to reform these institutions, but if the voters reject giving more money to the public school system in their state, they should at least demand a re-evaluation of policies that are systematically disadvantaging key demographics of students.

It's a sad, alarming state of affairs, and it proves that for all our lip service about improving the education of America's children, we've failed to make teaching the draw that it should be, the honor that it must be.

John McCain — while paying lip service to greater use of wind, solar, geothermal, and biofuels — clearly and consistently believes that in the near future (certainly in the time he would be in office) greater reliance on nuclear power as well as increased offshore oil drilling is the path to increased energy independence in the United States.

They are careful to distance themselves from a full return to the pragmatic and functional approach by stating that a full contextual standard of review analysis need not be conducted in every single case, however there isn't much context left unturned in their analysis here regarding this question and this decision maker, and for the most part Justices Côté and Brown only pay lip service to the Dunsmuir approach.