Second, while many in Washington pay lip service to the long term, few act on it.
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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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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.
Even the most corrupt politicians pay lip service to notions of legality.
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.
It is not enough to pay lip service to supporting the troops while saying and doing things that destroy their morale and embolden those they are fighting.
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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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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The new spirit extends as far as hardline fundamentalists, who now pay lip service to the principles of freedom and democracy though they interpret these concepts very much in their own way.
It is a common foreign policy strategy among U.S. foes such as Iran, North Korea, Syria, China, and Russia to pay lip service to diplomatic pleasantries and simultaneously act against our interests.
Whereas in 1995 the Left still expected the Palestinians to pay lip service to peace with Israel, after Arafat destroyed the peace process, the Left that had embraced the PLO needed to make a choice.
Under these circumstances, both for compelling security reasons and in order to avoid a politically embarrassing reverse down the road, President Bush must do more than pay lip service to the deployment of strategic defenses.
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In response to a question about Gore's character, Bradley said that Gore was just using the event to pay lip service to minorities, but actually had a "conservative Democrat" voting record as a congressman and senator.
We pay lip service to our Constitution, and then we find it expedient not to comply with it, and so we look the other way as official Washington conjures up the sophistries needed to evade constitutional limits on federal power.
In addition, successful innovators take the time to make sure that everyone the executive team, employees, partners, regulators and maybe even customers are working in unison, rather than having people pay lip service to a vision while actually working at cross purposes.
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.
Here is a man who pleases the crowd by using his inaugural address to pay lip service to working in a bipartisan fashion to reduce federal budget deficits, even after already having told Republicans that spending cuts are completely off the negotiating table.
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These leaders might pay lip service to liberalising the economy and setting markets free, but in practice it has been difficult for them truly to give up the urge to meddle, even when they are convinced of the intellectual case for doing so.
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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In part because of the president's reluctance to pay even lip service to placate the West, his country has languished in the diplomatic doldrums.
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.
Islamist movements and secular governments anxious to pay lip-service to Islam have, between them, failed spectacularly to anchor themselves in genuinely Islamic principles: principles which, for Mr Allawi, are as much about inner spirituality as outward religiosity.
To be sure, as a lengthy (if grossly imbalanced) report in the New York Times yesterday makes clear, the Administration has been willing to pay lip-service to the need for such protection whenever it became politically necessary to do so.
Women's groups allege political parties pay only lip service to empowering women.
Though Mr Bush's stump speeches pay lip-service to other priorities such as the need to control health-care costs or curb frivolous lawsuits they are worryingly one-dimensional.
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.
Yet politicians in both political parties pay varying degrees of lip service to the notion that the U.S. health care system is broken and that the allegedly bright minds who populate Congress should manage its overhaul with an eye on cheaper care.
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