Sentence examples for Excessive deference from inspiring English sources
Excessive deference implies that others, not the agent herself, are driving the agent's choice and preference formation.
Some have interpreted his restraint as excessive deference, even cowardice.
"Subordinate" carries all sorts of negative implications including excessive deference, passivity, and the like.
But excessive deference – even in an age where deference has become a dirty word – is unhealthy.
And both have suffered from excessive deference toward British culture at the expense of their own.
But a former network news producer said ABC shared some of the responsibility for Ross's errors because it gave him "excessive deference" due to his awards and seniority.
Till this day, I still passionately hate and resist office politics, am uncomfortable with too much adulation or deference, despise excessive bureaucracy, seek creative and 'out of the box' solutions.
Obama's excessive trust in his own heady team is all too often matched by his inherent deference to the smartest guys in the boardroom in the private sector.
This Article attempts to identify such features, theorizing that the limited empirical findings of the existing literature may be explained, in part, by the fact that the present liability system sets operable standards of care by deference to customary physician practices, which are themselves shaped by financial and other influences that already encourage excessive spending.
His achievements demand deference.
