For months, the US State Department has deferred answering any questions about Mobley, claiming that to do so would violate his privacy.
At one point, he even deferred answering a question on Army affairs, saying he wanted to make sure all the Enron questions had been asked.
While results from that earlier work demonstrated that participants did indeed slow down when at the edges of competence and generally defer answering on items that one is objectively less likely to answer correctly, the mechanism by which this process occurred was under specified.
Asked on a conference call about the future of the UK business, which has been the subject of speculation about a sale, Thorburn deferred his answer until the end of the month when the next scheduled announcement is due.
Labour has just published a defence green paper which deferred hard answers until after the election.
We'll defer that answer to the actors, writers, singers and comedians who make light of politics in the show "Political Subversities," playing Saturdays at 9 30 p.m. through May at the People's Improv Theater.
"Protecting the privacy and security of our users is one of our top priorities," Molinari wrote, but then deferred on an answer to the next question about protecting privacy more broadly.
6 1 The senate on the arrival of the envoys from Rhodes heard their arguments and deferred their own answer.
Peggy Riley, an American writer living in England, has an engaging way of raising mysteries, then deferring their answers.
In accordance with Mozambican guidelines, candidate donors were deferred when they answered "yes" to at least one question (except for the question number 7, formulated negatively, for which a "no" answer caused deferral).
Asked why the mayor would not take the train from the closest station to his house, Mr. Loeser deferred to his previous answer, "I've said, he takes the train from various stops".
