But they will now want more than Mr Jospin's usual lip-service to their environmental concerns.
Policy-wise, one exception to present futility would be true tax reform, which both parties have paid lip-service to, unconvincingly.
The response, said Einhorn, indicated a company intent on giving lip-service to change rather than actually investigating and reforming.
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For all the lip-service Irrational did for this character, I was very disappointed to see that he was rarely used until the end of the game.
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In it, he went to absurd lengths to pay lip-service to the concept of U.S. leadership using the term (or its variants) no fewer than 23 times.
It is devoid even of the lip-service usually paid to the need for deep systemic reform so clearly required if Russia is to achieve long-term economic viability.
Jacques Chirac was a dyed-in-the-wool Gaullist, and La Francafrique was in its essence a Gaullist enterprise, but even Chirac paid lip-service to the notion that times had changed.
Despite paying initial lip-service to the need to counteract the debilitating oil-price cycle by saving money during the boom years, he has virtually emptied the fund set up in 1998 for that purpose.
Although he pays lip-service to fiscal consolidation, he has, above all, promised to spend and tax his way out of the crisis, leaving French voters with the fantasy that the rich can pay and that their own hardship will be limited.
Does anyone really think that the rejection of John Bolton and his replacement by someone more to the liking of John Kerry and the UN uber alles crowd is going to produce the systemic reform of the United Nations to which even the latter folks are currently paying lip-service?
In this election, voters can choose the status quo -- with some lip service to post-revolutionary reality -- in the form of former foreign minister and later Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa or ex-civil aviation minister and briefly prime minister Ahmed Shafik.
Having attempted to break through the traditional velvet ropes that guard the resources and contacts of the apparel industry, Whitehead and Glenn quickly learned that while many people gave lip service to eco-responsibility, they were not so ready to act on their statements.
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This year Bush paid lip service to bipartisan co-operation and liberal ideology.
Nobody even pays lip service to the old-fashioned American values anymore.
Of course the governing body of world football, Fifa, whose leader once told us that players should just shake hands and avoid name calling, pays the same lip service to the promised eradication of race-fuelled disagreements, but nothing changes.
There is therefore a considerable risk that schools will pay lip service to the new reforms while continuing to cram students in the time-honoured fashion.
But all of us -- not just the Israelis and the Palestinians, but all of us -- must decide whether we are serious about peace, or whether we will only lend it lip service.
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And when Bowles-Simpson was last put to a vote, a pathetic 38 congressmen voted for the measure despite the lip service.
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