lip service

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In conclusion, Steve raises some important points: standards are good, but simply paying lip-service to them does not benefit the SOA developer or business stake-holder.
縂之，Steve提出了一些重要的觀點：標(biāo)準(zhǔn)很好，但是簡單地提供口頭的服務(wù)無益於SOA開發(fā)者和業(yè)務(wù)所有者。
Yet Mr Koizumi paid mostly only lip-service to the idea of smashing the post-war system in which LDP factions had monopolised—and more recently paralysed—political decisions.
不過，他聲稱要粉碎戰(zhàn)後自民黨的壟斷躰系，衹是動嘴皮子功夫罷了。
The lip-service paid to the dollar's decline in recent statements by some international monetary officials doesn't pose much of an obstacle to the U.S. currency's fall, either.
一些國際貨幣官員近來針對美元下滑的表態(tài)，也沒能阻止美元跌勢。

But they will now want more than Mr Jospin's usual lip-service to their environmental concerns.
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EU's biggest paymaster and most populous country—hence the lip-service that must be paid to its tongue.
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The response, said Einhorn, indicated a company intent on giving lip-service to change rather than actually investigating and reforming.
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If you say that someone pays lip service to an idea, you are critical of them because they say they are in favour of it, but they do not do anything to support it.