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In conclusion, Steve raises some important points: standards are good, but simply paying lip-service to them does not benefit the SOA developer or business stake-holder.
总之，Steve提出了一些重要的观点：标准很好，但是简单地提供口头的服务无益于SOA开发者和业务所有者。
Yet Mr Koizumi paid mostly only lip-service to the idea of smashing the post-war system in which LDP factions had monopolised—and more recently paralysed—political decisions.
不过，他声称要粉碎战后自民党的垄断体系，只是动嘴皮子功夫罢了。
The lip-service paid to the dollar's decline in recent statements by some international monetary officials doesn't pose much of an obstacle to the U.S. currency's fall, either.
一些国际货币官员近来针对美元下滑的表态，也没能阻止美元跌势。

But they will now want more than Mr Jospin's usual lip-service to their environmental concerns.
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EU's biggest paymaster and most populous country—hence the lip-service that must be paid to its tongue.
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The response, said Einhorn, indicated a company intent on giving lip-service to change rather than actually investigating and reforming.
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If you say that someone pays lip service to an idea, you are critical of them because they say they are in favour of it, but they do not do anything to support it.