lipservice

• “The senior executives' lives were subordinated -- not for the business -- but to pay lipservice to a vain greedy man.”

  The Huffington Post: Vicky Ward: Former Lehman COO Arrested for Forging Oxycontin and Ritalin Prescriptions

• “Unlike the big Westminster parties, which pay lipservice to rebalancing, the Scottish Nationalists acknowledge the need to rethink their country's economic model.”

  The Guardian: Can Scotland pay its own way?

• “But have the leaders done anything besides giving lipservice to its people on combating violent extremism?”

  The Huffington Post: Fahad Faruqui: Mind Over Jihad

• “Gingrich and the GOP are experts at paying lipservice to their base, using all the right code words such as anti-gay, anti-abortion and pro-gun.”

  Gingrich says Palin 'tremendously important'

• “Obama paid important lipservice to these things, but he has either completely reneged or ignored these things.”

  'People have a right to be grouchy,' Axelrod says

• “While doing lipservice to "strong consumer protection," Sens.”

  The Huffington Post: Zach Carter: Tom Carper Is Attacking Consumers and Defending Wall Street

• “Inevitably, the issue will fall to the wayside behind our struggling economy and the third intifada, then rear its ugly head again in four years, just in time for a routine round of lipservice before the status quo is sustained.”

  The Huffington Post: From Iowa to Inauguration: A Retrospective on the Precariousness of Primary Politics

• “A lot of lipservice gets paid to how finely-tuned and delicately balanced the Gulf Coast ecosystem is, but this incident hits at the truth of this -- and it involves those heroic oil-eating microbes: "Many scientists have feared that an influx of oil-eating microbes would lead to more Gulf Coast dead zones, since the microbes use large amounts of oxygen when they consume the oil particles produced by chemical dispersants.”

  The Huffington Post: Shocking Fish Kill Reported In Plaquemines Parish (PHOTO)

• “AARP is in the business of making money and they have only been paying lipservice to the health reform debate.”

  Lobbying for Your Health: 150,000 seniors in revolt

• “She pays lipservice to party unity but I have trouble believing that she is sincere about it, or that she expects her followers to think she is sincere about it, given how much damage her scorched-earth tactics (including repeatedly endorsing McBush over Obama) have done to the party.”

  Schneider: Obama makes gains with women

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