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- noun Alternative form of
lip service .
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Examples
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But have the leaders done anything besides giving lipservice to its people on combating violent extremism?
Fahad Faruqui: Mind Over Jihad Fahad Faruqui 2012
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But have the leaders done anything besides giving lipservice to its people on combating violent extremism?
Fahad Faruqui: Mind Over Jihad Fahad Faruqui 2012
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The senior executives' lives were subordinated -- not for the business -- but to pay lipservice to a vain greedy man.
Vicky Ward: Former Lehman COO Arrested for Forging Oxycontin and Ritalin Prescriptions Vicky Ward 2011
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The senior executives' lives were subordinated -- not for the business -- but to pay lipservice to a vain greedy man.
Vicky Ward: Former Lehman COO Arrested for Forging Oxycontin and Ritalin Prescriptions Vicky Ward 2011
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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.
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Unlike the big Westminster parties, which pay lipservice to rebalancing, the Scottish Nationalists acknowledge the need to rethink their country's economic model.
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Obama paid important lipservice to these things, but he has either completely reneged or ignored these things.
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While doing lipservice to "strong consumer protection," Sens.
Zach Carter: Tom Carper Is Attacking Consumers and Defending Wall Street 2010
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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.
From Iowa to Inauguration: A Retrospective on the Precariousness of Primary Politics 2010
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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.
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