Sentences with phrase «paying lip»

But here's the thing; no matter how much we may all nod our heads about how it's important to drive safely, some of us are just paying lip service and head nodding to the theory.

Paying lip service to business development efforts in an offhand way, commenting on business development infrequently or only as an aside, reminding lawyers that they are «expected» to develop business, but failing to follow through will negate your message.

Nigel Lithman QC, chair of the Criminal Bar Association, in his weekly blog, said he was «sad that people who have earned well over the previous years are abandoning the Juniors and sad to learn they have merely been paying lip service to this struggle.

I do think it's high time that law firms support women on an individual level, and stop paying lip service to gender diversity.

Judges are used to accused persons paying lip service to counselling issues.

While Dr. Garcia tried his utmost — and at substantial expense — to secure the assistance of the Japanese legal system, the courts in Japan did nothing to help him and did everything to hinder his efforts, while paying lip service to his plight.

Paying lip service to Charter rights is simply not adequate.

Yet paying lip service to plain - English principles isn't enough.

I think most lawyers are paying lip service to that but what your typical client relationship looks like is you make somebody come to your office, which probably means taking time off work or paying or figuring out how to get daycare for your kids, taking a different bus, wandering around town until they find your office in the office park or in the section of downtown, trying to find it in the building.

Lawyers are okay at paying lip - service to the importance of judicial access.

They aren't just paying lip service to the idea, either.

In fact, I am not so sure whether the Court wanted to go beyond paying lip service to encouraging effective private damages claims.

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.

So, AGW or «any global warming» as it should be known is therefore down to water vapour and governments could save millions of $ expenditure by reducing water vapour emissions instead of CO2 emissions by merely paying lip service (10 $) to it (water vapour that is).

In essence, the western nations - and in particular the US and Australia - are only paying lip service to equity in the agreements in any event.

**** In late 2015, any one of our political betters caught paying lip - service to the wind industry can be fairly branded «pig ignorant»; or, if not just willfully blind to the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time, then a «piggy with his trotters firmly planted in the subsidy trough».

[3] «The European Commission is paying lip - service to protecting the climate but puts neo-liberal economic policies and the interests of dirty industry above human well - being and environmental protection.

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

And Judith repeats her pattern with how she treats propaganda — paying lip service to the notion being even - handed even as she fails to step up her game on occasion after occasion to call out propaganda among «skeptics.»

At the moment they only seem to be able to think in terms of getting growth going again while paying lip service to the need to limit carbon emissions.

What could make it clearer that the Rudd Government is only paying lip service to changing from fossil fuels to renewable energy?

Sir or Mam, if you are absolutely convinced, after seeing people who don't think polar bears are as important as the people you are elected to serve, that argue out the science, then commit the American people on a path that will basically spend their hard - earned money on a problem our chief rivals are probably simply paying lip service too, then I will support you.

Whilst it is simply a fact that we live in a multicultural world, it is more vital than ever that we actively consider diversity rather than paying lip - service to its ideals.

I agree with Sherrie (whom I know) that many organizations are paying lip service to creativity.

Not just paying lip service to quality, or polishing quality in at the last stage, but people who think and act with pragmatic quality as their utmost priority at every stage.

And publishers are not looking at how «good» you are, in terms of paying them lip service, (i.e. how well behaved your are) but how good your sales are.

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.

Instead of paying lip service to this segment with pretty terrible product, GM Ford and Chrysler showrooms are now stocked with neat cars.

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

The 3 Series GT has been stretched over a long, 115.0 - inch wheelbase, and now this 3 Series car has the big back seat that even car enthusiasts demand, perhaps because they feel guilty about having too much fun behind the wheel without paying some lip service to people - hauling practicality.

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.

Either we as a nation suffer from cognitive dissonance, or we are just paying lip service to the constitution.

Meanwhile the Department of Education also seems to have been paying lip - service to its own conditions for granting waivers.

Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg said Friday that politicians will soon be paying lip service to the need for school safety after Friday's school shooting in Texas, but said they're only in it to «boost their approval ratings.»

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.

Keates continued: «Teachers and school leaders are not being given the training and support they need and too many employers are at best only paying lip service to equalities, doing little in practice to address discrimination and prejudice.

Schools and academies are expected to identify further efficiencies and paying lip - service to the concept of value for money is not enough.

What if Christopher Nolan's Batman films had anchored themselves in a genuine sense of economic disparity, rather than continually paying lip service to that idea through a vaguely conceived millionaire and his abuses of power?

Others see him as a «train wreck» who's paying lip service.

But Coogler's film goes beyond simply paying lip service to diversity.

Historical fact, or even the attempt at paying lip service to it, is so inconvenient.

A lot of movies pontificate on the meaninglessness of revenge without much conviction, reveling in vigilantes acting as our proxies for the indulgence of our worst instincts before paying lip service to law and order.

kind of like paying lip service without substance.

Or simply paying lip service?

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.

They are paying lip service to it.»

«Ministers remain obsessed with centralised control despite paying lip service to localism», Liberal Democrat communities spokesperson Julia Goldsworthy said.

«We'd love the parties to stop paying lip service to this and to start taking concrete steps to get its house in order.»

In contrast, he said, Labour had been talking tough on crime without reducing it and paying lip service to climate change without tackling.

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