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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It pays lip service to local choices but provides no specific means to make them more rational and efficient.
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Little has really changed despite lip service paid to the democratic process.
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Local authorities are expected to pay more than lip service to this requirement.
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Politicians pay lip service to crime.
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Some made a good job of the sandwich element, but many paid it lip service .
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That they were now even giving lip service to these ideas is significant.
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They wonder if your support is mere lip service .
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Though everybody pays lip service to performance, politics is often the ultimate arbiter of their fate.