| 词汇 | example_english_lip-service |
| 释义 | Examples of lip serviceThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. The methods for gene expression analyses are subsequently detailed mainly for this type of design, although lipservice is paid to alternative methods. In reality only lipservice is paid to these effects by most workers. Paying lipservice to or totally ignoring mathematics became a widespread attitude in (nongenetic) structuralism. Egyptological writing occasionally still pays lipservice to the idea of an age of the earth measured in thousands of years. Let us now pay more than lipservice to this premise, and analyse the environmental structures that make heuristics more or less useful. This is the meaning of pay in the expressions pay homage, pay lipservice and pay attention. This is often perceived as mere lipservice to the sacred law, but it is a necessary element in combining the two systems. Others may give lipservice to religions because it is to their advantage to do so. Presteigne doesn't need 'themes' (nor can it do anything but pay lipservice to them in a mere six days). In fact, quite a few "tensions and competing insights" are actually given little more than lip service (frequently relegated to footnotes) throughout the book. People in the provinces, even while paying lipservice to the ideology of the colonial state, did not 'modify' modern school buildings beyond recognition because they were ignorant. In particular, we agree with his claim that the time is ripe for linguists to pay more than lip service to the long-standing mentalistic commitments of the field. To make the distinction without substantiating the existence of both types of representation with data would be little more than paying lipservice to the more complete models. All too often, conceptual lipservice is accorded to social identity as a negotiative process rather than a mere immutable given; empirical data are often conspicuously scarce or even absent. It is all too easy to pay lipservice to human rights. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Why is this report important, and why should it not become a document that pays mere lipservice? From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The committee is simply paying lipservice to the idea and continuing with business as usual. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We give too much lipservice to this without effectively putting it into operation. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We have all paid more than lipservice to fish stocks conservation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We get plenty of lipservice paid to the idea, but that is all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We all pay at least lipservice to this. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I wish to do more than pay lipservice to public consultation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have given not mere lipservice but heart worship to these men who have done so valiantly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are those who pay lipservice to the single market, but when it comes to their national individual interests are prepared to flout it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We could indeed create the supportive society to which everybody pays lipservice. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They did more than just pay lipservice to the principle of parental choice. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Once again, they pay lipservice to women. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Both parties go to great lengths to pay lipservice to the need to return authority to local government. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Although we all pay lipservice also to the issue of a level playing field, achieving it is often much more difficult than we realise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We rightly pay much lipservice to keeping people in their own homes, which is where they want to be. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We pay a great deal of lipservice to the problems of people with disabilities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We continually hear lipservice to the idea that we want to encourage small businesses to develop. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Again it seems to us that these exhortations are mere lipservice. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that is the very thing they have done even though they have paid lipservice to not doing it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Lipservice is paid to the concept of public participation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Virtually nothing in its 170 pages of waffle pays more than lipservice to the transport problems of rural areas. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The second method, that of increasing production so as to increase the national income, is one to which everybody has paid lipservice. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not merely lipservice to say that the position is very desperate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Paying lipservice to the concept and offering no additional top-up simply will not do. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Whatever lipservice they pay to the problems of congestion and pollution, they adopt policies year after year—whether inadvertently or not—which add to those problems. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would lead to considerably more participation—which is a word we all pay lipservice to, but, when we have opportunities, do not always implement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our problems here are different but only lipservice has been paid to that consideration by those who have been handling this matter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is no use paying lipservice to agriculture and doing nothing about it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All that would be achieved would be lipservice to an idea. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The crucial question is whether we believe that or whether we are merely paying lipservice to it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is the sort of expression that we are ail supposed to pay lipservice to, but what did he mean? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is the easiest thing in life to pay lipservice. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is one thing to pay lipservice. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many times, responsible journals have suggested that we have only paid lipservice to the need to attract new industries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For these reasons we entirely refute the notion that we pay lipservice to the idea of an occupational health service. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is only recently that even lipservice has been paid to this sector. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If that means anything, it means, not lipservice to the importance of the family, but a readiness to devote resources to sustain it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Lipservice may be paid to the importance of invisible earners, but selective employment tax remains the embodiment of the contrary conviction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He no longer even pays lipservice to the principle of two-tier government. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She is destroying our youth service while paying lipservice to it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A lot of lipservice has been paid to the infrastructure argument. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I appeal to people in industry and commerce not to pay lipservice to training. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have paid a great deal of lipservice today to the unfortunate nature of this type of legislation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Do we wish the law to have the strength and power to which we pay lipservice? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Most of them have given safety committees lipservice. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I know that lipservice will be paid to this theory, but do not ask a man what he believes—watch his actions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I suggest that that is mere lipservice to genuine consultation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe in democracy, not by lipservice but by actual practice. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They will have gone up market no matter what lipservice they may have given to the free market and laissez-faire economics. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Lipservice has been paid over and over again to the necessity for the resurrection of our export trade. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We pay lipservice to the generality of cutting public expenditure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Lipservice has for a long time been paid to the principle, but in practice it has not always been observed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It gives proper parliamentary control and sovereignty, instead of merely paying lipservice. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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