Her approach to leadership and national security was forged during her eight years in the White House: She believes in executive authority and Congressional deference, her advisers say, and is careful about suggesting that Congress can overrule a commander in chief.
Unfazed by the disapproval she knew she would garner and completely unsuited to the kind of supine deference her teacher was obviously asking for, Irshad began to pose some tough questions: "I remember asking why Prophet Muhammad would have commanded his army to kill an entire Jewish tribe when the Koran supposedly came to him as a message of peace.
Writer visited Mrs. Garcia & listened as she reflected on her life: her faith in God, her deference to her husband & joy in their children & grandchildren, the family's suffering during the Depression, her self-chastisement for pride, the pain when 2 of her 4 sons were killed.
Of the two, Ms. Cojocaru is the more flawed but has more sweetness, warmth and, above all, courtesy: Giselle's affection for her mother and, in Act II, her deference to her new queen both made particular impressions.
It's impossible to know whether this is a result of too much direction or too little — whether Assayas filmed Stewart goggle-eyed with awe at her talent or deference to her celebrity and therefore left her to interpret his intentions effortfully, or whether he directed her insistently and specifically to the detriment of her artistry.
In deference to her position, her punishment was merely to be sent home.
Her affecting deference conveys her total respect for the music.
Her often-fierce manner -- unlike most other legislators, she does not hesitate to raise her voice in floor debates or Democratic conferences, or to challenge the views expressed by people of either party -- has, at times, won her the deference of her colleagues, if not their affection.
Descartes's preferred habit was to stay warmly in bed in the mornings; Christina had him give her intellectual nourishment, bareheaded and standing in deference to her royalty, in her icy palace at 5 a.m.
The most moving portions of the book detail the sacrifices made by the women in Gilbert's own family, including her mother's decision to abandon her career in deference to her husband's.
As Westlund argues, the agent here seems to identify wholeheartedly with her preference for deference to her husband: "Hill's character is remarkable in part because she seems so unambivalent about her subservient role" (Westlund 2003, 491).
