lip service

“There’s a difference between lip service and good policy that is really vetted by the people who are going to be impacted, and women have a track record of powerful listening and inclusive, responsive solutions.”

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.