Sentences with phrase «more than lip»

59 % of women said more than 10... or more than their lip gloss capacity... Hmm... does that include school grade kisses?

While all of us in legal and accounting circles diligently complete our money laundering training, this case shows the importance of paying more than lip service to this crucial element of the fight against financial crime, and the need continuously to be considering when it would be appropriate to report suspicion of money laundering.

However, critics charge that once Cuomo got the WFP nod, he paid little more than lip service to his promise.

A poor effort of a letter will be seen as nothing more than lip service to your employers.

And if Facebook doesn't take that seriously, it's hard not to see its commitment to fighting fake news as much more than lip service.

If you have hopes of instigating the kind of behavior that results in the development of new clients, firm leadership must come forward with more than lip service or token involvement.

Cuomo says he's made it clear that he wants further reforms; pro-reform groups want more than lip service.

We can, in fact, come up with better songs and more innovative schools but it will take more than lip service to innovation from policy - makers for this to happen.

Working on federal policy and law that gives people a pathway out of poverty requires more than lip service to «choice.»

Owners can rest assured that if Nissan is offering a full, five - year warranty, it's got more than lip service invested in the quality and reliability of its newest half - ton.

Yet few companies pay more than lip ser - vice to training the vocal cords of their operators.

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.

It's time for a representative who will deliver more than lip service,» Gallant said.

Moreover, the Guardian reports that any law mandating that the coalition pays anything more than lip service to its 0.7 per cent GDP aid pledge might be omitted from today's announcement on account of Tory backbench opposition.

But when it comes to actually dealing with employment, crime or infrastructure breakdown, the question is how to provide something more than lip service?

While tenant activists have long pushed for such a measure, it has never won more than lip service from Cuomo or leaders of the Democrat - dominated state Assembly.

«Frankly, small business in New York needs more than lip service from Albany.

Whether the county exec will lend more than lip service to Zimet's campaign — meaning a serious cash infusion, or at least the loan of a contributors» list — remains to be seen.

Petroleum jelly can serve as more than lip balm.

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.

Yevonne Brannon, chairwoman of the coalition, says it's «time for more than lip service» in Wake County.

I am actually quite lucky to be living in Israel where free speech and free thought are really more than lip service.

Here there is a belief that life outside the office is as valuable as what happens at one's desk, and that belief receives more than lip service.

Maybe the American Christian church needs a little persecution to weed out false converts, who profess but give little more than lip service... Matthew 15:8

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.

So far, there's little reason to think that the opposition parties are prepared to offer much more than lip - service to the anti-austerity cause.

Give more than lip service to improving social and communication skills — so that students and teachers alike can cultivate a caring classroom community?

If we are to serve Jesus with more than our lips it will require breaking the cycle of going to church as the primary expression of our service.

I want more than my lip and nose pierced.

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.

To have a broad impact, rebranding requires more than lip service.

Guttieri says that military strategists have only recently begun paying more than lip service to the idea that a lasting victory requires long - term planning that focuses on the period after the battles are won — and that social science research is a necessary foundation for planning.

Putting aside the shallow glance at justifying the pirates» actions and whether they're actually in response to American capitalist hegemony, which gets little more than lip service, Greengrass has an effective vehicle.

And it's more than lip service.

It's more than lip service.

The problem is that most wellness programs are nothing more than lip service, passive - aggressive attempts to control employee behavior and not serious attempts to simplify getting, and staying, healthy.

Joey — true enough, but I'd be careful enough to know its more than lip service — even the demons believe and shudder.

But without strong action to back up those words, such groups are likely to view Francis» comments as little more than lip service.

It is a prophetic demand that Christian faith be more than lip service.

The division of the Body of Christ into many thousands of dis - unified parts, many of which give no more than lip service to the Lord Jesus Christ as the Head.

But this is sadly nothing new for a league that's repeatedly shown its claims of commitment to diversity and inclusion to be nothing more than lip service.

All the protests notwithstanding, it's heartening to see universities, through their support of Prop 42, paying more than lip service to the term student - athlete.

Sure, much of Blair's pro-business rhetoric was no more than lip service.

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.

Washburn offers a series of well - researched cases that, at the very least, are sobering reminders that things can and will go wrong unless universities pay more than lip service to their values and their distinct role in society.

But equally it pays more than lip service to the notion, and that gives it some semblance of brains, if not heart.

Change has to be more than lip - service and the now - familiar tone - deaf apology for narcissism and incomprehension.