Sentence examples for deference of from inspiring English sources

He replied with the deference of a happy husband.

"That principle to federal deference of state definitions has to go both ways," Sprigg said.

In Lenny Mandel's creation, Reiter has all the benevolence and deference of a tornado.

His brother Max has the polite deference of an undergraduate waiting for office hours.

What is odd, however, is the deference of critics and editors to those interests.

In that guise, he earned another laugh with the line "I've a preference for the deference of a metaphor".

Of course, the courts do not restrict this sort of unlimited deference to cases of federal power.

It is a peak that is never climbed, out of deference to the beliefs of worshippers.

(See Thomas 1992 3 for a discussion of the importance of moral deference to the testimony of those in oppressed groups).

Writer considers Public Broadcasting news the best alternative to the inadequacies & Administration-directed deferences of commercial television.

Among his predictable targets are the erosion of deference, the spread of TV culture and the decay of English language.