Sentences with phrase «lip service to the other»

In fact, many of them find it expedient to pay lip service to other religious creeds and maintain nominal ties with churches that enjoy a high degree of prestige in the community.

I felt they spent way too much time discussing Reborn dolls and the20 / 20 editors» misinterpretation of the term «Orgasmic Birth», to do more than lip service to the other topics.

I find it almost mind blowing how researchers are able to focus on just one «possible» factor and ignore or offer just passing lip service to other factors.

Not exact matches

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.

Coincident with this, the Federal Reserve has accumulated nearly $ 1.5 trillion of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac securities (MBS and agency debt), which is has no plan to liquidate other than lip service.

It is not crazy to think that the incentives the British National Health Service creates to provide less care, and the stiff - upper - lip attitudes that lead Britons to tolerate queues and other forms of explicit and implicit government rationing all for the Greater Good, might influence where the elites draw that line.

But, if you feel there is never a wrong reason for becoming a christian, even if an individual does it for no other reason than playing it safe, never believed in god, will go their whole never never truly bielving, does the minimum (paying lip service), and to really point a cherry on top, doesn't live anything close to a «christian lifestyle outside of the few hours on Sundays (just a rotten to the core person, thief, liar, cheater... rappist, murderer...) Is there STILL no wrong reason for becoming religeous?

Oh please more lip service, that is all religion is good for, oh and taking others peoples money (after taking a slice for themselves) some of it might go to needy people.

The unfortunate reality is that the bulk of humanity does not care about others other than to pay lip service.

Western society, while still giving lip - service to religion, has evolved past the point where (for most people anyways) a satire or insult about jebus, the pope, or any other religious or political figure is reason enough to drawn down and start shooting.

If one is fair, please at least acknowledge the millions of other peoples of white, Christian and Jewish descent who were vehemently opposed to these immoral issues and set about (that is ACTION, not cheap lip service) putting such practices to an end.

So this begs the question, does Obama like many others just give lip service to God and cherry - pick scriptures to support his Socialist agenda or does he truly live out a Christian life when he supports Gay Marriage, supports Abortion, snubs Israel (God's chosen race), praises Jesus as his Lord & Savior?

My in - laws are «good, conservative christians» (their words, not mine) who believe screwing others over for profit is justified because they pay lip service to jesus.

Very few other authors, with the exception perhaps of Schmalhausen and a few of his students, have done anything more than pay the merest lip - service to the idea that selection operates on phenotypes.

Well, it is very clear that like the «many other teams» (Everton, Sunderland, Aston Villa et al), he just pays lip service to wanting to win the title without fully preparing / committing himself to it.

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.

Four Church of England bishops and other influential religious figures have attacked the plans in a letter to the Times amid fears that the reorganisation may cause applications of asylum seekers to be given lip service.

Lynch said the mayor, as well as other elected officials, only pays lip service to supporting the police, but fails to act when it counts.

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Spielberg widened the film's focus to encompass the story's other angles — Ellsberg's evolution, the Washington elite's lies about the war, and the tick - tock of daily - deadline journalism — but the rise of Mrs. Graham, in an era when the word Ms. hadn't yet been popularized and the concept of gender equality wasn't paid so much as lip service, remains a central theme.

Earlier this year, Sleeping with Other People paid lip service to challenging long - held notions of the superiority of monogamous relationships before finally conforming to them.

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.

It pays lip service to themes that have been better explored in other movies — causality, service vs. self - interest — and there is a feather - light through - line about sacrifice that gives Infinity War some narrative cartilage to support it, but no real muscle (the script is from Captain America scribes Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely).

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.

Only after I had begun to teach 30 years ago did public rhetoric begin to give even lip service to the notion that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories, critics of other people's ideas, makers of their own personal marks on the world.

Perhaps more than any other aspect of the education - reform agenda, school choice has exposed President Obama's unlovely habit of paying lip service to post-partisanship while operating very much as a partisan.

For this to happen, legislators, educators, parents, and the public must recognize that the civic dimension of our education system deserves more than lip service, but should be subject to the same scrutiny as other education outcomes.

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.

Others are hoping that Clinton is just paying lip service to NEA and AFT, as past Democratic presidential candidates have done, and will reverse course once entering office.

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But when you turn on the display and compare Nook Color to other slate devices, it quickly becomes clear that Barnes & Noble isn't merely paying lip service to the notion of a creating an LCD device optimized for reading.

He pays lip service to new ideas but is incapable of seeing any way other than his way, which is to kill as many dogs as the law allows.

We must seize the grass roots momentum that started last year, and like Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the grass roots organization that placed the wrongfulness of drunk driving into the minds of everyone, we must let legislators and other elected officials know that we do not want lip service and a mysterious end to animal welfare legislation; we want meaningful change for companion animals in Oklahoma.

5 Most men, despite lip - service to equality, are reluctant to give up this «natural» order of things in which their advantages are so great; for women, the case is further complicated by the fact that, as Mill astutely pointed out, unlike other oppressed groups or castes, men demand of her not only submission but unqualified affection as well; thus women are often weakened by the internalized demands of the male - dominated society itself, as well as by a plethora of material goods and comforts: the middle - class woman has a great deal more to lose than her chains.

I am very skeptical that on a global population level, humans will bother to do anything other than lip service when it comes to addressing climate change and the changes to our lifestyle required to significantly reduce our emissions, until it is far too late.

Obama himself has not paid much lip service to his own administration's climate and energy push since his speech in June, but Zichal and others say that doesn't mean the work isn't getting done.

The presidents merely paid it lip service for brownie points with their peers in other nations knowing full well the U.S. was never going to ratify the treaty.

As we're gettng rid of our coal fired and nuclear power stations what is our advanced industrialised country supposed to use to power our indusries and how do we remain competitive against other countries paying lip service to the environment including your own

Some cities ignore cyclists; others pay lip service to them; once again, Portland, Oregon demonstrates how a city can go out of its way to promote cycling as a viable alternative to the car.

Parents Beware: the obligation to encourage a child to see the other parent goes beyond lip service

-LSB-...] Parents Beware: the obligation to encourage a child to see the other parent goes beyond lip service — Mimi Marrello, Mann Lawyers -LSB-...]

Others suggest the idea has more to do with lip service than with making any genuine contribution.

Though the district court gave lip - service to other § 3553 (a) factors, the district court's downward departure was based largely, if not solely, on the defendant's childhood, which it deemed to be one of the worst it had ever seen.

Law firms have recently showcased their willingness to remedy the overall diversity issue, some through the usual lip service, and others by taking steps to entice change within their workplaces.

Usually the «Yeah» is just lip - service, and the message that follows the «but» is an attempt to unravel the other's perspective.

I have never understood, once agency came into practice, how salespeople give lip service to who they represent then verbalize to the opposite salesperson, not only feedback, but other information such as the seller / buyer is flexible, they want an offer etc..