It paid lip service to prudence.

它为稳健政策表示了口头支持。

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While much is made of the ability to play YouTube videos on mobile phones, for example, the needs of enterprise IT departments are barely even paid lip service.

虽然人们作出了许多努力，例如在移动电话上播放 YouTube 视频，但 IT 企业部门的需要仅仅得了些口惠而已。

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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。

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Companies have paid lip service to customer service for years, yet still treat customers like serfs.

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

The new states paid lip service to republican ideas of equality before the law.

ECONOMIST: Millennium issue: Freeing Spanish America

He paid lip service to reducing excessive regulation, while making it clear that he favored most regulation.

FORBES: The President's Political Circus