For a long time, Mr. Netanyahu gave lip service to a Palestinian state.
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MORE, gave lip service to the idea of reducing the influence of money in politics.
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Mr. Cuomo gave lip service to eliminating this loophole, but little of his political muscle.
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Remember, not so long ago, Democrats at least gave lip service to our basic right to border enforcement.
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The bill gave lip service to conservatism, while embracing Big Government and retaining its liberal worldview and leftist policy prescriptions.
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Good people of good conscience are seeking to do what Trump only gave lip service to, and in his way bastardized.
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Both President Bill Clinton and President Obama gave lip service to campaign-finance reform and then put it on the back burner.
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The candidates gave lip service to the horrific plight of China's Uyghur Muslims, an estimated 1 million of whom are in concentration camps.
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Bloomberg was more open than Trump, and at least gave lip service to the idea of preventing conflicts -- but even so the effort was only partly successful.
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Rather than support a tough policy to which past presidents gave lip service, elites ran for cover, attacking America for taking a "dangerous" approach to this madman.
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As Trump confronted the reality of a divided Washington, he gave lip service to unifying the country but also made it clear he won't change his combative style.
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He gave lip service to net neutrality victories ("we've protected an open internet"), shouted out Silicon Valley, and announced a "moonshot program" to cure cancer that's going to be spearheaded by Vice President Joe Biden.
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"The House and Senate both gave lip service to working in the interests of patients while taking tens of thousands of dollars from the "Have's" (those who have a license) and the "Have Not's" (those who want a license)," the email said.
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On the campaign trail, he gave lip service to the idea of simplifying the byzantine world of student loan debt repayment plans, but when it came time to make actual budget proposals in May 2017, it became clear the president's plan was akin to "rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic before it sinks," as one expert told me at the time.
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Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocratic senator to force vote requiring Roberts to weigh in on witnesses Evangelical pastor: Jesus would have 'beat the crap' out of John Bolton Bolton's lawyer disputes NSC assessment that manuscript contains classified information MORE gave lip service, criticizing Trump's withdrawal from Syria, but blocked a Senate resolution to bar Trump from another irrational military deployment in Iran.
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During his time in Iraq, Mark A. Milley picked his way through open sewage in Abu Ghraib, took fire from rocket-propelled grenades in Sadr City and gave lip to a higher-ranking American officer clad in tanker boots who dared to question whether Colonel Milley's brigade, suddenly tasked as a quick-reaction force, could handle Baghdad in the middle of a flaming insurgency.
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We were wrong. ... Of course the Palestinians were entitled to self-determination – even independence—but only on terms of mutual respect. The Palestinians' claims of nationhood could not stand separate and apart from their acknowledgment that Israelis are entitled to precisely the same rights. Arafat and his colleagues gave lip service to these lofty sentiments.
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Fish, however, wanted stability and favored the Spanish government, without publicly challenging the popular anti-Spanish American viewpoint. They reassured European governments that the U.S. did not want to annex Cuba. Grant and Fish gave lip service to Cuban independence, called for an end to slavery in Cuba, and quietly opposed American military intervention. Fish, worked diligently against popular pressure, and was able to keep Grant from officially recognizing Cuban independence because it would have endangered negotiations with Britain over the Alabama Claims.
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Charles Campbell, The Transformation of American Foreign Relations (1976) pp 53=59. In 1869, President Ulysses Grant was urged by popular opinion to support rebels in Cuba with military assistance and to give them U.S. diplomatic recognition. Secretary of State Hamilton Fish wanted stability and favored the Spanish government and did not publicly challenge the popular anti-Spanish American viewpoint. Grant and Fish gave lip service to Cuban independence, called for an end to slavery in Cuba, and quietly opposed American military intervention.
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Fish, however, wanted stability and favored the Spanish government, without publicly challenging the popular anti-Spanish American viewpoint. They reassured European governments that the U.S. did not want to annex Cuba. Grant and Fish gave lip service to Cuban independence, called for an end to slavery in Cuba, and quietly opposed American military intervention. Fish, worked diligently against popular pressure, and was able to keep Grant from officially recognizing Cuban independence because it would have endangered negotiations with Britain over the Alabama Claims.
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They were useful before the advent of television in 1952, he says, but: :National conventions no longer serve their original purpose, or the uses the parties and the press have made of them in the past half-century. The national conventions were, for their first 130 years, a unique communications medium. They were the only place and time where party politicians could communicate frankly and bargain personally. They were the only place where people could discover which candidates had genuine support and which just gave lip service.
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2014 campaign In 2014 Williamson ran as an Independent for California's 33rd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. She was praised as a "tireless" campaigner but criticized for not articulating specifics in her plans. Her supporters deemed her lack of plans a strength and said she was not a "made-to-order candidate" who gave "lip service." Prominent elected and public officials endorsed her campaign, including Ben Cohen (of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream); former governors Jennifer Granholm and Jesse Ventura; former representatives Dennis Kucinich and Alan Grayson; and Van Jones.
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This both made it more difficult for the Crusaders to plan military operations, and increased the expense of those operations. Monarchs in Western Europe often gave lip service to the idea of going on crusade, as a way of making an emotional appeal to their subjects, but in reality they would take years to prepare, and sometimes never actually left for Outremer. Internal wars in Europe, such as the War of the Vespers, were also distracting attention, and making it less likely for European nobles to want to commit their military to the Crusades, when they were more needed at home.Jackson. Mongols and the West. p. 179.Phillips. p. 130.
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