It is irresponsible to pay lip service to an objective whose accomplishment we know would be highly dangerous.
In his talk, Freedhoff fails to even pay lip service to notions of individual choice and personal responsibility.
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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.
If the U.S. federal government is going to stimulate the economy, they need to do more than pay lip service to the small businesses that drive much of the job growth in this country and provide real incentives to kickstart the small urban manufacturing opportunity.
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If China wants to continue selling its firms and attracting foreign capital to build successful multinationals, it will have to practise good corporate governance, not just pay lip service to it.
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Mr Assad, whose forces' killing of 50 protesters overshadowed Mr Annan's announcement, is unlikely to pay more than lip service to any binding calls for him to back off.
University funding has created tension in the coalition: already embarrassed by their broken election pledge to oppose any increase in fees, the Lib Dems are irritated that these proposals only pay lip service to fair access for pupils from poor backgrounds.
Second, while many in Washington pay lip service to the long term, few act on it.
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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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They can pay lip service to the concept of enumerated powers without being at all constrained by having to take it seriously.
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.
Indeed, seemingly forgotten by Republicans is a truth they at least pay lip service to about the horrors of government wrought by rising federal spending.
Even among Republicans who pay lip service to the idea of limited government, politicians are often judged on what laws they played a major role in passing.
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Women's groups allege political parties pay only lip service to empowering women.
Might this not change, given the lip service that so many governments pay to the notions of free trade and competition?
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