We know innovation and entrepreneurs need nurturing and support, but usually just pay lip service.
Managers give constant lip service to the value and depth of teams in great businesses.
And I want to be clear about this: Today's summit is not lip service.
And while Washington pays only occasional lip service to deregulation, Japan needs it badly.
Second, while many in Washington pay lip service to the long term, few act on it.
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But when it comes to reforms, the FDA on its own has only paid lip service.
The new states paid lip service to republican ideas of equality before the law.
Efforts to maintain some measure of fiscal discipline have hardly risen above lip service in recent years.
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He paid lip service to reducing excessive regulation, while making it clear that he favored most regulation.
Do I play lip service or do I live it even when it means making a sacrifice?
It is irresponsible to pay lip service to an objective whose accomplishment we know would be highly dangerous.
Too many businesses, however, fall back on lip service instead of developing those insights and acting on them.
In his talk, Freedhoff fails to even pay lip service to notions of individual choice and personal responsibility.
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Although politicians pay lip service to those goals, insufficient effort has been made to structure incentives in that direction.
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The trouble is that successive governments have paid lip service to the idea of customs reform, but little more.
Oh, to be sure, there will be lip service paid to the troops on both sides of the aisle.
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Obama never hesitated to give lip service to malpractice reform when he was seeking to broaden support for his bill.
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Everyone in business pays lip service to customer wants, but Cantalupo attached to it an unwavering obsession with quantifying them.
While Sadr pays lip service to the mainstream Shiite religious leadership based in Najaf, his base of power is different.
Apple under Jobs delivered what most other companies give lip service to: a passionate, almost fanatical dedication to customer satisfaction.
And when Bowles-Simpson was last put to a vote, a pathetic 38 congressmen voted for the measure despite the lip service.
It takes more than paying lip service to a few soft skills on a performance scorecard to get the job done.
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Any Congressman who gives lip service to a balanced budget Amendment but votes to raise the debt ceiling is a hypocrite.
But people need to understand that the values of Mandela are alive within the DA. The ANC is just lip service.
Might this not change, given the lip service that so many governments pay to the notions of free trade and competition?
Obama has consistently given lip service to the need for economic growth, sustainable federal finances, and smart, more efficient, government spending.
Mr. Peres and President Clinton gave lip service to cooperation in this field, but they focused narrowly on specific joint programs.
They can pay lip service to the concept of enumerated powers without being at all constrained by having to take it seriously.
Unfortunately, the Bush administration has had other priorities this past year, and the president has at best given the subject lip service.
Because as I said during our tribal conference, I have no interest in just paying lip service to the problems we face.
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