Sentence examples for with lip service from inspiring English sources

"They are fed up with lip service, and I think they are right".

And if you want to understand how America is failing its soldiers and veterans, honoring them with lip service and ceremonies but breaking faith with them on all that matters most, listen to the story of Major Richards.

The Saudis talk like world statesmen, with lip service to $80 a barrel.

The current system is focused on volume, with lip service to locality and awareness.

New Zealand's corporate elite all too often respond to criticism with lip service, rather than action.

Welcome us into your campaign -- not just with lip service -- and we will make you the next president of the United States.

Could it still get away with lip-service?" he asked.

"The Japanese government once again came out with more lip service," said a statement from a group that supports the so-called comfort women, who were forced to have sex with Japanese soldiers during World War II.

Whether this is true is open to (lengthy and often bitter) debate, but the argument is really only made from a North American and Western European perspective, with some lip service paid to Jamaica and Japan.

Update 1/4/17: A previous version of this story quoted Jean Cassella as saying solitary "was initially used as a control measure, with some lip service paid to rehabilitation.

The potential for city-regions to power economic development outside London has become a hardy policy perennial, with ministers paying lip service to the agenda, with specifics becoming stalled by Whitehall turf wars or Treasury opposition.