Sentence examples for appears to defer from inspiring English sources
"He appears to defer to you, then in the end he gets exactly what he wants.
The writer hero of Jean-Luc Godard's brilliant "Contempt" (1963) at first looks, atypically, like a winner -- he's played by cool Michel Piccoli, he's married to Brigitte Bardot -- but when he appears to defer to the power of a bullying American producer, he loses his wife's respect, totally and irrevocably.
(Indeed, at Phaedrus 236c, Socrates appears to defer to "the fair Sappho" as having had greater insight than himself on love [Plato, 483].) Plato's discussions of beauty in the Symposium and the Phaedrus occur in the context of the theme of erotic love.
He paid his respects to Lucian Freud, the only figure to whom Bacon appeared to defer; and somewhere along the way he grew up.
Senator Max Baucus of Montana, a Democrat who supported the new law, said the proposal appeared to "defer many decisions until the final rules are published later this year".
In addition, the family appeared to defer some tax deductions into future years, a move that would give Mr. Romney further options — all of them legal — to adjust his effective federal tax rate.
(post-consultation interview, age 79, right hip, listed for TJR by Surgeon B) We explored why patients appeared to defer to clinicians' decisions and asked clinicians to describe their own views on their approaches to decision-making.
But while American officials can claim some successes -- Russia appears to have deferred delivery of the S-300 air defense system to Iran -- the diplomats' dispatches underscore how often their efforts have been frustrated in trying to choke off trade by Syria and others, including Iran and North Korea.
The U.S. now appears to be deferring to Turkey as an invaluable ally in handling the Syria file for one important reason.
On some issues he appears likely to defer decisions to Congress.
Despite decades of military misrule under Mr Mubarak, many appear happy to defer to the generals, and seem to have given the state a green light to deal violently with Morsi supporters, whom they consider terrorists.
