lip-service

This is especially true in the American context where all the talk of "the American People" is merely lip-service.

Edward Kubow: The New Usual and the Demise of the Art City Edward Kubow 2011

This is especially true in the American context where all the talk of "the American People" is merely lip-service.

Edward Kubow: The New Usual and the Demise of the Art City Edward Kubow 2011

And this is not merely lip-service to the trendiness of the local food movement.

Pawpaw Adventure. Part One: Awe Sarah Lenz 2009

This is especially true in the American context where all the talk of "the American People" is merely lip-service.

Edward Kubow: The New Usual and the Demise of the Art City Edward Kubow 2011

Conservatives pay lip-service to small government.

Politics, Economics, and Religion, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

They give lip-service to health care reform but in the end are tied to the interests of the health insurance industry.

Hadassah Lieberman under attack over industry ties 2009

And finally you reveal the sham of yourself, the lip-service you pay to the idea that "[f] or a reviewer, I suppose all published work is fair game and, as writers, we should expect to take the good with the bad, review-wise" in your email, when you mewl pitiably that, "if I had received that email, I would have taken down the review."

Archive 2009-01-01 Hal Duncan 2009

London: The Victoria & Albert Museum's big spring show, "The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900," is about the poets, painters, sculptors, designers and architects who paid lip-service to the slogan "art for art's sake."

A Self-Conscious Pursuit of Beauty in Art Paul Levy 2011

The age-old assumption that these states would pay lip-service to their dollars and would do anything not be censured by America disappeared after the disaster that was George W Bush.

Tunisia's Jasmine revolution: A flower that could be crushed | Editorial 2011

The spokesman for the Darfur-based Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) has called on the U.N. Security Council to do more than pay lip-service to the people of Darfur as officials of the world body begin a scheduled visit to Sudan.

Rebel Group Urges Security Council to Help End Darfur Violence 2010