They'll pay lip service to some sort of a freeze.
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People pay lip service to change knowing it's not coming.
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But it's not enough to pay lip service to bipartisanship.
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Governments find it easy to pay lip-service to women's rights.
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If you want to reward these movies, don't pay lip service.
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And the party and government pay lip service to gender equality.
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After all, a lot of musicians pay lip service to these ideas.
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Its diplomats at the UN continue to pay lip service to the sanctions.
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They mostly pay lip service to the Palestinian cause, but often forget it.
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The truth is scary to people, even when they pay lip service to change.
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Zero. Treatment guidelines, representing the standard of care, only pay lip service to nutrition.
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They pay lip service to it, but they actively try to undermine its institutions.
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They're at least aware enough of it to pay lip service to solving it.
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Would stars merely pay lip service to gender equality in between plugging their latest projects?
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People love the NHS, and even Conservatives have to pay lip service to protecting it.
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Of those that did mention climate change, many only pay "lip-service" to the issue.
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They usually require you to tolerate opposition parties and pay lip service to human rights.
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And rather than pay lip service and move on, she decided to do something about it.
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Western officials pay lip service to territorial integrity, while resigning themselves to the new status quo.
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But others, like Russia, pay lip service to antidoping measures while fostering a culture of cheating.
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Brands will have no choice but to make real change and not just pay lip service.
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The hopefuls pay lip service to the need for more building, but then skitter down side streets.
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Certainly plenty of spaces pay lip service to the idea of openness, but wind up feeling cliquish.
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"I'm not stressed about people who pay lip service to diversity, or don't talk about it," he continued.
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I certainly didn't pay lip service to it—to me, what they taught was as real as gravity.
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As much as we pay lip service to helping others, few of us act on our own words.
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Many politicians from both parties pay lip service to the debt but fail to make the tough decisions.
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To be fair, he did pay lip service to the idea that some occasions should be immune from politics.
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Most traditional politicians have done nothing but pay lip service to small-business growth for a generation or more.
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Halloween forces grown-ups to pay lip service to their inner-child, leaving everyone feeling (and acting) like morons.
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Donald Trump is willing to pay lip service to the idea that such a movement is a bad thing.
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The people in power, in Washington and in boardrooms across the country, will pay lip service to the tragedy.
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Outside Bangui, CAR is but a collection of fiefdoms controlled by factions who pay lip service to the peace process.
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These letters pay lip-service to Israeli security concerns in the most anodyne and unsympathetic "yeah, but" kind of language.
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The storyline lets Stranger Things pay lip service to a few progressive ideas about intersectionality and class and gender privileges.
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In west Africa, meanwhile, politicians pay lip service to the idea of a single currency for all countries in the region.
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Democrats, in thrall to identity politics, pay lip service to "workers" but often support trade agreements and cannot oppose illegal immigration.
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Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party does not even pay lip service to the official pretence that the island is part of China.
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Key U.S. allies in Europe and Asia are likely to defy or, at most, pay lip service to Trump's sanctions threats.
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She criticized Democrats who only pay lip service to communities of color, saying her mission is to start talking to voters now.
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But one might believe that he'd at least pay lip service to the decided minority who delivered his undeserved, Russian-backed victory.
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Speaking to Business Insider, Harris said the big tech companies often pay 'lip service' to the issue of diversity within their workforces.
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If a candidate can simply pay lip service to your key issue to win over your voters, you've lost all your power.
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So they pay lip service to the new rules even as they disregard them, and the public generally doesn't know the difference.
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Many companies pay lip service to nurturing talent, but Ballet Hispánico has devoted significant resources and care to cultivating emerging Latino artists.
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Social media companies, for their part, seem to only pay lip service to the few lines they're even willing to acknowledge exist.
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"The Hong Kong government must know this is a solution, but I expect them to pay lip service to it," he said.
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And sure, the industry might pay lip service to criticizing some of Trump's drug pricing policies, particularly the Part B price index plan.
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But for others, neglecting a strong, singular message suggests they may only be using policy planks to pay lip service to progressive goals.
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Even when congressional leadership and the administration pay lip service to racial and economic equity concerns, they miss the mark by a mile.
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Mr. Trump does pay lip service to upholding labor and environmental standards, which were shifted to side agreements in the original Nafta negotiations.
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They pay lip service to De Kooning, Shapiro, Rosenberg, and Hess, but they don't really give a fig about what they stand for.
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Trump's transportation secretary, Elaine Chao, did however pay lip service to the problem recently, without offering much concrete detail on a potential solution.
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While these three powers pay lip service to the idea of peace in the Middle East, narrow self-interest increasingly drives their thinking.
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Although many Arab leaders pay lip service to the Palestinian cause, the gravest and most pressing issue in the region is Iranian encroachment.
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That Tuesday's ruling happens to cement executive power and let Trump pay lip service to a campaign promise is all the better for them.
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"I will continue my campaign ... I just stood by with my promise, all other politicians they pay lip service to the problem," he told reporters.
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And politicians pay lip service to the idea that there is a time for campaigning, and it's not right after the last election has ended.
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More of the tired pandering and insulting appeals to identity politics, which does little more than pay lip service to minority voters every four years.
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So he has found himself in the awkward position of trying to both pay lip service to, and dampen the enthusiasm for, the Gaza protests.
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It's easy to pay lip service to the fact that some of the most important government decisions are made at the state, not federal, level.
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While we pay lip service to the virtue of examining different views, research tells us Americans avoid talking politics with people who might disagree with us.
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Liberal values might be under threat, but at least everyone in Argentina continued to pay lip service to those values — and to cooperate where they could.
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A persistent problem in climate change politics is that Democrats pay lip service to the existential threat but prioritize kitchen table issues with faster political payoff.
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The more mainstream view of the current center-right government is to pay lip service to the idea of negotiations, but not actually host peace talks.
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Many conservatives who pay lip service to limited government get cold feet when it comes to sweeping away the interventions that occur via the tax system.
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As time went on, though, Trump began to pay lip service to old Republican anti-porn stances, signing a pledge to prioritize obscenity prosecutions in August.
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And most people didn't think Trump's foreign policy would even pay lip service to humanitarian concerns, such as Bashar al-Assad's use of sarin in Syria.
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While almost all UN members pay lip service to the notion that they're following the letter of international law, far fewer are delivering on those pledges.
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While biennales like Manifesta might pay lip service to various social justice causes, the commercial motives of such exhibitions undermine their power to foment real social change.
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While almost all UN members pay lip service to the notion that they're following the letter of international law, far fewer are actually sticking to those pledges.
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This weekend, the actress Debra Messing spent part of an award acceptance speech imploring the first daughter to do more than pay lip service to female empowerment.
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"I think there are those who are tied to these establishment institutions and donors who will pay lip service to what people are saying they want," said Changa.
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Many firms pay lip service to diversity but beyond recruitment quotas and good intentions how many can boast about having a varied and thriving workplace for all employees?
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Agreement came most easily on competitiveness and the promise of more free-trade deals, to which all EU countries pay lip service, even when obstructing them in practice.
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Sure, there are and always will be people who pay lip service to Time's Up without lifting a finger to help the movement achieve any of its goals.
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Our photog also asks whether nominating black-themed movies might be a ploy to pay lip service to the films with no intention of bestowing awards on them.
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Policymakers who ache at the absence of a European tech success on the scale of Google or Amazon pay lip service to the importance of the single market.
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We routinely pay lip service to the high ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, but almost no one truly cares about these musty old documents.
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While almost all UN members pay lip service to the notion that they're following the letter of international law, far fewer seem to be delivering on those pledges.
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With local officials judged to a large extent on their area's GDP growth, they had every incentive to pay lip-service to reducing capacity, while quietly allowing new investment.
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But one of Trump's signature characteristics is an absolute shamelessness that frees him from any sense of obligation to even pay lip service to normal values or avoid hypocrisy.
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The concern from the so-called Bannon base, however, is that the administration will pay lip service to the fiery populist's agenda, only to back down in the end.
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"In the longer term, they need to do something different to bring the deficit under control, not just pay lip service towards the euro," Commerzbank strategist Christoph Rieger said.
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Whether the U.S. fully withdraws or not, in both cases the U.S. has been hamstrung by neighboring countries that appear to only pay lip service to being U.S. allies.
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And yet the administration continues to pay lip service to innovations in the recovery market, finalizing a new policy just last week to encourage development of opioid recovery medications.
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These publications and commentators aren't embracing the kind of real debate that they pay lip service to on campuses; they are spoon-feeding screeds to their right-wing readers.
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All pay lip service to the idea that the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), a club of ten mostly smaller powers, should be at the core of FOIP.
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But then many of these 'use the opponent's energy against him' martial arts believe in neither sparring nor strength and conditioning or at least only pay lip service to them.
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Jas (Freida Pinto) and Marcus (Babou Ceesay) are lovers who like to pay lip service to black power and immigrant causes but haven't really done much on the action side.
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And we've got a Republican leadership in Congress mired in Reagan-era thinking and trying to pay lip service to every obsolete prejudice in the various wings of the party.
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Cultural change is possible, but the CEO has to be part of the change rather than part of the resistance, and can't merely pay lip service to that change, either.
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Now they continue to pay lip service to a candidate who undermines the principles of our party, our Constitution, and our country -- all while violating the most basic rules of civility.
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To be honest, there's not really much different about this version — it mostly an incentive to boost pre-orders and pay lip service to fans bummed out by the name change.
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Whereas traditional institutions pay lip-service to the idea of work-focused courses, says Peter Crisp, dean of BPP Law School, private ones are more likely to put them in place.
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It would be hard to find a Democrat holding elected office today who will even pay lip service to how immigration affects the interests of American workers, taxpayers, or the environment.
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Younger and more unabashedly anti-democratic than Netanyahu's cohort of Likudniks, they do not feel the need to pay lip service to the idea of the occupation as a temporary necessity.
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While legislators pay lip service to the importance of charities, in recent years they have failed to adopt policies to ensure that charities get what they need to do their work.
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When the comedians in the cast pay lip-service to the scripted scenes that anchor each episode, it&aposs fun to spot the actors attempting to compensate and elevate the drama.
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Because everyone says, everyone will at least pay lip service to the idea that they would like diversity, but they don't seem to work as hard at it as you do.
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Although we've adopted principles that pay lip service to that objective, not a single one of the draft recommendations attempts to meaningfully identify any new or significant resources to promote digital inclusion.
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Those men often pay lip service to their queen while backbiting and plotting against her — and the women's best ammunition against said plotting may be to join together and form an alliance.
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And in Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, at her swearing-in on May 20th, rejected months of intense Chinese pressure to pay lip service to the notion that there is "one China".
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Old CRT monitors and televisions fill warehouses across the country, and companies like Apple and Microsoft pay lip service to the problem, but often pursue business practices that make the problem worse.
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And yet such bigotry remains pervasive and systemic; the opponents of women's rights often pay lip service to equality, but American culture remains deeply hostile to the idea that women are autonomous.
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How many times have you seen people pay lip-service to the ideas you believe in and then turn away from them the moment they have power of some kind in Washington?
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At the time, in mid-2011, the Obama administration continued to pay lip service to the priority of veterans issues, yet the three vacancies at the CAVC remained unfilled for several years.
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Unlike many designers, she did not pay lip service to the house DNA or past styles, preferring to insist that while she was designer, Céline would be what she made of it.
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American presidents used to speak a lot about peace, or at the very least pay lip service to it; now the rhetoric from the White House is aggressive, if not outright incendiary.
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Is Pai just trying to pay lip service to the idea of the open internet while creating a massive set of loopholes through which the broadband industry can lock down the internet entirely?
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State party leaders sometimes pay lip service to the notion that they would welcome a primary challenger, as their state party rules usually require, but they are already working to ensure Trump's reelection.
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We pay lip service to the glories of erasing code, of simplifying functions, of eliminating side effects and state, of deprecating complex APIs, of attempting to scythe back the growing thickets of complexity.
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It is no longer enough for companies to pay lip service to "giving back"; businesses have a real responsibility to lead the way in making changes, and consumers are holding them to account.
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Hollywood is still gorged with white men, but I wager that most know that they must pay lip service to female empowerment — for the sake of their paychecks if for no other reason.
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They pay lip service to investing in Columbus startups and they have invested in a few over the past years, but they are there to be poised for a renaissance, not catch a wave.
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While many continue to pay lip service to the faithful party base, Perriello has created a campaign that moves beyond the rhetoric and is truly responsive to communities of color that are still hurting.
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Yet he has fallen into the same "do nothing", "politics as usual" routine where coastal politicians do little more than pay lip service to Middle America, save for a few months every four years.
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Other countries do things and the Trump administration tries to take advantage of it by virtue signaling, even when the virtues they pay lip service to are ones they've actively denigrated through their actions.
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Many contemporary choreographers pay lip service to the notion of integrating dancers and musicians onstage, but for the past few years the Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has been obsessed with the idea.
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What it essentially does is set up a system in which ISPs pay lip service to the idea of net neutrality, though as Reuters noted, those promises will not be enforced by any regulatory authority.
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"Especially an extremely small minority of people among high-level cadres have swelling political ambitions, crave power, pay lip service, form cliques and gangs, and seek power and position and other political conspiracies," Xi said.
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Read more ReadIn the past several months, ISPs have pushed hard to jam a net neutrality bill through Congress that would pay lip service to the fundamental guidelines the Obama-era rules put in place.
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On one hand, the company emphasizes the importance of dialogue without defining what constitutes (healthy) dialogue; on the other, it continues to pay lip service to people who are critical of its approach to harassment.
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The easiest was the first, competitiveness, because all EU leaders pay lip service to cutting red tape, signing more trade deals and completing the single market—even though they may object to specific individual measures.
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Of course, the courts recognize that this convenient reading of FOIA would give the DOJ "carte blanche" to process expedited requests at its leisure, to drag its feet and "pay lip service" to expedited processing.
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They are more than happy to explore employee investment, robotic assembly lines, and amazing manufacturing techniques in Shenzhen and will pay lip service – but never really come through – on expansion if it suits the company politically.
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We need to go to forgotten places like Pacific Junction and Seminole -- and not only pay lip service to their problems, but listen to their ideas and welcome them to be a part of the solution.
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The federal government lacks the cash to rebuild crumbling roads, and while big investors pay lip service to creating new public-private partnerships, there is no sense of infrastructure being the real priority it should be.
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It's easy to find congressional Republicans who are willing to pay lip service to the idea that the DREAMers — who came to the US at the average age of 6 — should not be subject to deportation.
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While there is never any real doubt that "Crazy Rich Asians" will come down on the side of free choice and true love, it does pay lip service to the gravity and durability of other values.
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Instead, the United States and its allies pay lip service to the need to end the occupation, but do nothing to steer Israel from its preferred option of perpetuating it: enjoying the dowry, denying the bride.
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But if enough Republicans instead decide to play along the myth that Trump was robbed — or even just to pay lip service to it — they'll trap themselves inside Trump's hall of mirrors for years to come.
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When the Commonwealth moves collectively, that is, when all countries are pursuing the same objective of free and fair elections and good governance, it can act against countries that don't even pay lip service to those values.
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Individual takedowns and #MeToo stories will likely affect the workings of circles that pay lip service to the cause of gender equality, but they do not yet threaten the structural impunity of powerful men as a group.
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And if a product that doesn't match that list says it was recommended by the FDA, Johnson said it's probably just throwing in buzzwords to pay lip service to sounding more sellable — but it's not necessarily safe.
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The nuclear-weapon states pay lip service to the incremental nuclear disarmament the treaty asks of them while at the same time modernising their forces to face the next 50 years; this makes the nuke-nots ever angrier.
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His attempt to pay lip service to the ethanol industry while campaigning in Iowa, and then blasting it at events in New Hampshire, shows that he is willing to do and say anything to advance his political interests.
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Members of Congress pay lip service to ideas like filing taxes on a postcard, but they continue to perpetuate the current system of mass April immiseration by preventing the most obvious and effective way to simplify tax collection.
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The fact that major corporations have sustainability departments, that they bother to even pay lip service to environmental and ethical causes, you could argue that this all comes back to the corporate-antagonizing efforts of Rainforest Action Network.
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People can pay lip service to the idea, not do much to change their own behavior and either feel great about themselves or think accusations of sexism are basically the equivalent of unintelligible shrieking from Debbie Downer man-haters.
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Price's book was published in February, at the beginning of a year when it feels like tech companies finally started to treat excessive screen time as a liability (or at least do more than pay lip service to it).
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I think the loyalists, and Damascus—the Assad regime—I think they're trying to pay lip service to the ceasefire agreement, because when they launched this offensive, they essentially stated that this was an offensive against the Islamic State.
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For members of Congress, who routinely pay lip service to the value of small businesses, this will also be a big chance to prove that they really understand there is nothing small about the sector's economic and cultural contributions.
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"The thing is Obama was willing to speak to systemic issues and a lot of younger people are becoming increasingly disillusioned and cynical because time and time again candidates would pay lip service and not do it," he said.
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Most entrepreneurs pay lip service to the fact that enhanced algorithms are going to become table stakes in new product offerings so observers can watch that become another engine of growth for the big companies that can get it right.
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Young people have been far too passive about the degree to which their lives are being controlled by commissars of social engineering who pay lip service to liberalism but who are at root Stalinist autocrats who despise and suppress individualism.
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"Voters across the political spectrum are fed up with politicians who pay lip service to the dignity of work but do nothing to reward struggling, hardworking families," Jonathan Schleifer, executive director of the Fairness Project, said in a statement Tuesday.
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While some of the world's wealthiest have become advocates against the policies that some say let them accumulate their billions, critics allege that many are in Davos to simply pay lip service to solving issues like growing inequality or climate change.
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But if he doesn't, the next years will afford us an opportunity -- unprecedented in this magnitude in the history of the American republic -- to demonstrate the depth of our commitment to the founding principles to which we so readily pay lip service.
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Apple's release of Chinese classical instruments has been heralded by many as a chance for the company to pay lip service to its second-largest market after the U.S., but its implementation of the instruments reflects at least a thoughtful representation of them.
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Her call for regulation is a big moment for the tech industry; it should also serve as a wake-up call for these companies to do more than just pay lip service to the problems their dominance is causing in the marketplace.
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I'm so, so sick of watching people pay lip service to the value of autistic life while funding research into prenatal testing for autism at one end and supporting euthanasia for autism on the other, all in the name of preventing suffering.
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"When we talk about personnel, we don't mean advisers who just pay lip service to Hillary's bold agenda, coupled with a sigh, a knowing glance, and a twiddling of thumbs until it's time for the next swing through the revolving door," she said.
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They had to acknowledge the systemic misogyny of the entertainment industry and at least pay lip service to making a difference going forward — and, with the Golden Globes being a Hollywood event, they had to do so while being self-congratulatory and glitzy.
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Elected officials of both bodies will pay lip service to the idea of working together, and some of the more Panglossian pundits will express the hope that even this divided Congress will produce a deal on infrastructure spending or prescription drug prices.
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Untethered from the pressures exerted on him during the Obama administration to pay lip service to the idea of Palestinian statehood, Netanyahu let loose his real feelings on the subject in the presence of a president far more sympathetic to his worldview.
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"In that sense, reality seems to suggest that the US is willing to turn a blind eye or basically pay lip service to human rights and democracy while they allow interests to dictate the political foreign policy agenda," Virak told VICE News.
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Mary Queen of Scots is mainly focused on Mary and on Elizabeth, and the ways they both have to deal with the collected passions of the disloyal men around them — who often pay lip service to their respective queens while plotting behind their backs.
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Arab governments may pay lip service to the concerns of young people—the United Arab Emirates this year appointed a 22-year-old woman as minister of youth (along with new ministers for tolerance and happiness) but most rulers view young people as a danger.
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The industry needs to do more than just recognize its image problems, it needs chief executives to make presenting and promoting a better picture their top priority, not just something they pay lip service to before handing off to junior, under-resourced public relations teams.
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But, large corporations also have to make a choice that, if they are going to do more than pay lip service to the democratic ideal that allowed them to flourish in the first place, they have to worry less about margins and more about people.
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"Even though they gave reassurance, people here will hold them to it, and it will make matters worse if these reassurances just pay lip service to those concerns and make it that much harder to rebuild trust in what is an indispensable partnership," he said.
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Shared antipathy to Iran has brought Israel closer than ever to the Gulf monarchies, while the tactical alliance with evangelical Christians in the United States and the European far right gives Israel friends who don't feel compelled to even pay lip service to Palestinian rights.
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Our experts, of course, pay lip service to the idea; why yes, they say, surely everyone knows that the poor lack political power and agency, that they often have very little say when it comes to what happens in their own communities — how they are governed, policed, taxed, etc.
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Although officials in Ankara still pay lip service to their country's longstanding goal of joining Europe, the actions taken by Erdogan's government in recent years — from the acquisition of advanced Russian air defenses against NATO's urging to its permissive attitude toward regional extremists — have given decidedly different indications.
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While Arab leaders have continued to pay lip service to the Palestinian cause, it has slipped in importance, displaced by the Arab Spring uprisings, the wars in Iraq, Syria and Yemen, the threat of the Islamic State, and the contest between Saudi Arabia and Iran for regional dominance.
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"Voters across the political spectrum are fed up with politicians who pay lip service to the dignity of work but do nothing to reward struggling, hardworking families," Jonathan Schleifer, executive director of the Fairness Project, which advocated for the minimum wage and Medicaid bumps, said in a statement.
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Twitter grilled on policy approach that reinforces misogyny Twitter sent a representative to pay lip service to U.K. Parliament on Wednesday over harassment issues, Natasha Lomas reports: Twitter has faced a barrage of awkward questions from the U.K. parliament over its ongoing failure to tackle violent abuse targeted at women.
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The problem is that outside the Beltway and the somewhat insular world of professional punditry, no one believes for a minute that Clinton won't pivot to the center, pay lip service to these positions and slide back to the middle to "get things done" once Sanders is out of the way.
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When we talk about personnel, we don't mean advisers who just pay lip service to Hillary's bold agenda, coupled with a sigh, a knowing glance, and the twiddling of thumbs until it's time for the next swing through the revolving door—serving government, then going back to the very same industries they regulate.
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We often pay lip service to the idea that theater is a sort of secular communal rite, but the description applies precisely to "The Fever," a lovely, haunting meditation on human connection, and disconnection, created by the innovative company 600 Highwaymen, and presented in the Under the Radar festival at the Public Theater.
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"When we talk about personnel, we don't mean advisers who just pay lip service to Hillary's bold agenda, coupled with a sigh, a knowing glance, and a twiddling of thumbs until it's time for the next swing through the revolving door, serving government then going back to the very same industries they regulate," she said.
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Gregory is willing to pay lip service to "the benefits of crossing the aisle" when the Saviors come knocking to take away his luxuries, but regardless of your political affiliation, it's hard to shake the feeling that people on both sides are far more concerned with getting their way than trying to find common ground these days.
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Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun (left) with Baidu Vice Chairman, Group President and COO Qi Lu Even if the two companies are just partnering for the domestic Chinese market a real partnership that does more than pay lip service to the potential benefits of technology sharing would make each far more competitive than either one on their own.
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And it's not as though these themes weren't already present (if underdeveloped) in Cline's book, which concludes with the protagonist realizing that maybe getting lost in pop culture isn't everything that's important in life, but only in a kind of half-assed way that feels like Cline thought it necessary to pay lip service to the idea.
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"Entities that pay lip service to legitimate loan modification requirements while engaging in unfair or abusive practices toward borrowers should not be able to use government programs to profit from the continuing legacy of the financial and foreclosure crisis," said the letter, which was addressed to the Housing and Urban Development secretary, Julián Castro, and the Federal Housing Finance Agency director, Melvin L. Watt.
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These distortions along with the multiple perspectives fold yet another disquieting possibility into the work, the steady accumulation of which speaks to me of Greenwold's defiance: he refuses to make decorous works or to be coy about the indecorous when that, of course, is what the art world would prefer to see, however much they pay lip service to freedom of expression and artistic integrity.
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"When we talk about personnel, we don't mean advisers who just pay lip service to Hillary's bold agenda, coupled with a sigh, a knowing glance, and a twiddling of thumbs until it's time for the next swing through the revolving door," Warren said at an August speech in front of the Center for American Progress, previewing how she will set her own agenda moving forward.
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The film, directed by Nathan Adloff, who wrote the script with Justin D. M. Palmer, tries to frame this as some kind of empowering step, but because Miles never does more than pay lip service to an interest in volleyball, his teammates or the competitive imbalance his presence is perceived to create (opponents begin forfeiting), it's hard to see his quest as anything but selfish.
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