Sentences with phrase «mere lip service»

His distant, almost flippant demeanour in Human Revolution made a degree of sense considering the events early in that game, but on the back of the Aug Incident and his personal investment, his almost sociopathic failure to address these events beyond mere lip service makes his attitude all the more bizarre.

«What separates true customer service from mere lip service is the willingness to put the customer first in everything we do.»

Real leadership — not mere lip service — on issues such as helicopter noise or state - versus - local jurisdiction over vineyard activities would aid his constituents on the North Fork.

While many books about Paris pay mere lip service to the budget traveler, this one has a very prominent budget angle.

Jesus was thus indicating that giving God mere lip service is a perennial problem — not just something that manifested itself in His generation.

Meanwhile, as the budget cuts decimate the police force, Quinn has chosen to sit on the sidelines and pay nothing but mere lip service by pledging to rescind them.

Throughout the length of Ventriloquism, in Ndegeocello's hands, no cover is ever mere lip service.

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.

Rose might have had the courtesy to acknowledge (beyond mere lip service) that his opinions are highly disputed in Barth scholarship at the present time.

Rimac's efforts to make the car strong and safe (there are driver, passenger and side airbags too) aren't mere lip service — the company is homologating the car for worldwide sale, so it needs to pass stringent crash regulations such as the USA's rollover and large offset frontal impact tests.

A major survey of 1,200 leading lawyers, conducted by legal information providers LexisNexis and published by the Law Society this month, found that some employers were paying mere lip service to flexible working.

It ought to be well known, though Catholic leaders tend to give it mere lip service rather than an attentive observation: «it is an injustice and a grave evil and disturbance of right order to assign to a greater and higher association what lesser and subordinate organisations can do....

29 - mpg in stop and go driving and 36 - mpg on the highway pays more than mere lip service to the idea of increased efficiency (as compared to the standard Q50), and all - wheel drive is available as an option for those who have to regularly deal with a harsh winter climate.