Olson said, "In some places, in deference to host-country sensitivities, we are lower in profile.
The show went on, Gladys Knight brought down the house, and Alicia Keys sang as guests glanced at each other knowingly and nodded in deference to their host.
After a fiery jazz face-off, they end up, in deference to their host country, trading bars of Greensleeves and fragments of Beatles songs.
An occasional shot of Mr. Costas next to a beat-up car would have helped too, though in deference to the host country it should have been a Mini rather than Columbo's Peugeot.
Never mind that he paired it with Jay-Z's "Roc Boys," in a musically strained mash-up; it was a show of deference to his host, as well as a show of impudence.
A reporter for The New York Times was given access to the air operations center under a written agreement that neither the name of the base nor its location would be published, in deference to the host nation's concerns.
In March, Zuckerberg was photographed on a jog in Beijing, where he was mocked online for declining to wear a face mask in deference to his hosts, despite the smog.
If anything, it shows some deference to one's hosts, rather than daring them to mispronounce or misspell what can be for them a very strange-sounding name, and facilitates communication in general.
And they committed themselves to a federal structure that would, in effect, legalise the Kurds' de facto autonomy from Baghdad.In deference to his Turkish hosts, who fear that Iraqi federalism could galvanise their own restless Kurds, Mr Khalilzad refused to commit himself to a federal Iraq.
They spent it meeting, greeting, touring, admiring, exclaiming, making deft small talk, and — in deference to the sensitivities of their host nation — trying to look presidential while not looking superior.
In deference to the authority's rules, the hosts did not offer alcohol.
