Donor countries must now move from paying lip service to their obligations to concrete action.

Secondly, we really must make counter terrorism the top priority it is not enough to pay lip service to it.

Stiff upper lip!

On the one hand it pays lip service to the idea of rebuild an effective state in the image of Scandinavia in the 1950s.

How? Whenever they overcome you, they respect neither kinship nor treaty with you. They satisfy you with lip service, but their hearts refuse, and most of them are immoral.

How? Whenever they overcome you, they respect neither kinship nor treaty with you. They satisfy you with lip service, but their hearts refuse, and most of them are immoral.

In my view, many of the ongoing development projects pay lip service to good governance, but we aren't doing enough at a practical level to make sure it is achieved.

The Return of the Stiff Upper Lip

That won t come cheap. If Merkel s government believes that paying lip service to growth is enough, it is playing with fire a euro collapse in which not only Germans would be badly burned.

It's marked by one lip corner pulled up and in.

If public sector deleveraging is not a complete growth policy and it isn t why is there so much attention on fiscal austerity and so little action (as opposed to lip service) on growth and employment?

In such a situation, growth ought to be at the top of the policy agenda. But, while the EU and national governments pay lip service to it, they have not devised an effective economic revitalization strategy.

The time has come for Governments to be held to account, both to their citizens and to each other, for respect of the dignity of the individual, to which they too often pay only lip service.

Much lip service has been paid by the world community to trade liberalization and expeditious work towards implementing the development dimensions of the Doha Work Programme and to integrating African countries fully into the international trading system.

And this is test on some lip balms that we have over here.

And we have our own lip balm, and we have a leading brand.

Here's a cancer growing on the lip of a Wuarter horse named Guinness.

In a horrifying chain of events, Christopher Columbus once bit his own lip.

The newly established Israeli government refuses even to pay lip service to the internationally accepted requirements for peace. On the other hand, the freely elected Palestinian leadership faces international boycott until it accepts a solution that the Netanyahu government rejects.

The Tea Party movement exploited this resentment, and Obama is now on the defensive. The Republicans campaign against any further stimulus, and the administration now pays lip service to fiscal rectitude, even if it recognizes that deficit reduction may be premature.

Most important, in a world that at least pays lip service to democracy, the voice of the people matters. It confers a kind of legitimacy that simply cannot be acquired by force and that is ultimately the surest guarantee of investment and growth.

And he lost his lower jaw, his lip, his chin and his upper jaw and teeth.

Throughout the five years of painful cancer treatments, he managed to keep a stiff upper lip.

The scale of this challenge demands a comprehensive, institutional response from the EU that goes well beyond the Decade and the capacity of my foundations. While the European Roma Platform launched in 2009 paid lip service to Roma issues, it did not go far enough.

Narrator This is the venue they chose for their fake auditions for an advert for lip balm.

The DR CAFTA pays lip service to international labor standards as enshrined in the International Labor Organization s core labor rights, but promptly throws them overboard. Instead, countries are committed only to enforcing their own labor laws, which often seem designed to prevent workers from joining a union.

The lip of truth shall be established for ever but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

The lip of truth shall be established for ever but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

All they that see me laugh me to scorn they shoot out the lip, they shake the head saying,

All they that see me laugh me to scorn they shoot out the lip, they shake the head saying,

But China s vulnerability to these factors, as serious as they are, is symptomatic of deeper institutional problems. Until these underlying constraints are addressed, talk of a new consumption based growth model for China, reflected in the government s recently approved 12th Five Year Plan, can be no more than lip service.

For all the lip service paid to relations with Mexico (and, indeed, with Latin America more generally) from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Obama, the truth is that developments in Mexico have always gotten short shrift from US presidents. Illegal immigration is a major issue, to be sure, as is the drug trade.

So as a result, I had to rely on lip reading a lot, and I couldn't really hear what people were saying.

To be sure, in EU institutions public and ceremonial meetings, interpretation and translation must be equally available, at least in principle, from every language into every other. Each day, hundreds of interpreters literally pay lip service to this lofty precept, and millions of pages are translated annually so that citizens may consult EU law in their own language.

This helps explain why the inflation rate, as measured by growth in the annual consumer price index, has remained stubbornly high. Indeed, for the first time since 1998, the annual inflation rate has been rising this year, rendering the official targets 7.5 8.5 in 2005, 6 7.5 in 2006 and 5 6.5 in 2007 little more than lip service.

Israel is most at fault for this failure, owing to its continued military occupation and illegal settlements. Despite giving lip service to peace, the Israeli army s refusal to leave the occupied territories continues to be in direct contravention to what the preamble to United Nations Security Council resolution 242 termed the inadmissible taking of land by force.

How could God and His Messenger grant them (pagans) peace when if they were to acquire superiority over you, they would respect none of the peace treaties nor their kindred relations with you! They only try to please you by paying lip service to you but their hearts are against you and most of them are evil doers.

How could God and His Messenger grant them (pagans) peace when if they were to acquire superiority over you, they would respect none of the peace treaties nor their kindred relations with you! They only try to please you by paying lip service to you but their hearts are against you and most of them are evil doers.

I've chosen to show this profile view of Sue because what it shows is her lower jaw jutting forward and her lower lip jutting forward.

NEW YORK There s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip, goes the old English proverb. Something seemingly resolved and certain in fact is neither.

If this is more than lip service, and if she really carries out a serious reform of the German welfare state s incentive structure, the result could be higher employment and structural economic growth. In the long term, that would be more promising for the EU and for the global economy than the demand driven performance that Germany is currently enjoying.

The persistent tendency to pay lip service to social sustainability, while implementing economic programs focused on unrelenting austerity, is a leading cause of political instability in Europe. Though reform programs aimed at building viable macroeconomic frameworks remain essential, they must include strong provisions for countercyclical policies to offset the paradox of thrift (the tendency to save more during a recession, undermining economic growth).

Some countries, like the United States and Australia, chose to opt out of its stringent demands others, like Canada, Japan, and a raft of European states, pay lip service to its requirements but will essentially miss its targets. Yet, even if everyone had participated and continued to stick to Kyoto s ever more stringent commitments, it would have had virtually no environmental effect.

Another case Last election cycle, I was following Mitt Romney around New Hampshire, and he was campaigning with his five perfect sons Bip, Chip, Rip, Zip, Lip and Dip.

The truth is that none of the nuclear armed states, inside or outside the NPT, pays anything more than lip service to the ultimate elimination of nuclear weapons. The continued seductive power of the Cold War logic and language of nuclear deterrence is the primary reason, though for some states it is clear that the testosterone factor perceived status and prestige also plays a role.