How To Use lip service In A Sentence
- Even when you're a purblind dogmatist who wants to shut it down, I guess you've got to at least pay lip service to it, which explains the name.
- This is not lip service, box ticking or charity. Times, Sunday Times
- It pays lip service to local choices but provides no specific means to make them more rational and efficient.
- The current government pays lip service to that ethos, but its actions are far from it. Times, Sunday Times
- The hon. Gentleman should be ashamed of the lip service that he has paid to employment by continuing to outline such policies.
- Though everybody pays lip service to performance, politics is often the ultimate arbiter of their fate.
- While the private propaganda apparatus and its ruling class overlords pay ample lip service to the virtues of competition in the marketplace, they are quite unwilling to submit themselves to competition in the realm of ideas.
- At present the EU has a powerful lever to put pressure on candidate countries to pay more than lip service to demands for minority rights.
- Instead, they insult the issues with lip service. Times, Sunday Times
- The parties must at least pay lip service: the women in their midst are in revolt. Times, Sunday Times