lip service

She has continued López Obrador’s practice of daily morning news conferences, where she often pays lip service to the former president and repeats his signature phrase: “For the good of all, the poor first.”

Speaking ahead of a meeting of EU ministers on Tuesday, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said Russia's continued attacks "speak louder than the lip service we have heard for so long".

You’ll often hear contemporary Democrats give lip service to framing issues in terns of values, and some certainly do so.

While the academies’ peer institutions have been criticized by Trump administration officials for giving lip service to the free flow of ideas and information, none have been subjected to such blatant censorship—not yet.

One of the local TV news reports summed up a theme of the demonstration this way: “Democratic Party has been paying lip service to the working class.”