Sentence examples for On deference from inspiring English sources

Gambian culture insists on deference to one's elders, so Dukureh keeps her eyes lowered and says: "I will not do that.

Could Koreans' Confucian culture, with its emphasis on deference to authority, be the true culprit?

Her respect for that relationship borders on deference: she played none of her own compositions in Tuesday's first set.

Both films exhibit a respect for the individual soldier that borders on deference, though Mr. Gandolfini, who again conducts interviews, is not afraid to ask difficult questions.

We are witnessing the demise of literary culture, they declare; if that's the case, why should they waste their breath on deference?

They point to the contradiction between the majority's action in this case and those justices' usual insistence on deference to the states.

Her final humiliation came when she flew to Miami to collect the boy an extraordinary gesture for an attorney-general to make and then flew out last Thursday empty handed.Many people blame this excess of deference on the political power of Miami's vociferous Cuban-Americans.

That said, the needle with Larry King early in the book (more or less defused by puppy-dog shows of deference on Morgan's part) is intriguing, and there's a fairly jaw-dropping passage where he describes having Gordon Brown round to watch the footie.

"The court gives the board a lot of deference on how to run their business," he says.

The list of judge-made doctrines of deference goes on and on.

The answer was clearly yes, according to Justice Scalia's majority opinion that built on decades of precedent on judicial deference to agencies.