lip service

The mother of 15-year-old Annabel Wright, who took her own life, last year said proposed safety measures were just paying "lip service".

It was a beautiful moment — and a reminder that while some politicians pay lip service to valuing family, others show that they do.

“They’re just paying lip service to it as far as I’m concerned,” Ms Hopkins said.

The U.S. paid lip service to freeing the people of Vietnam and Afghanistan, but our primary goals were strategic and self-interested.

“I told them, one of you will fly first and one will fly last, and they accepted that of course, but from the heart, not just lip service … the team spirit is very pronounced.”