Capello is his own man and the thought of having to defer authority to anyone else would have been unacceptable.
FOR a party that likes to preach about the evils of an overweening federal government and the virtues of deferring authority to states, localities and individuals, it was a peculiar stance.
Canadians tend to defer to authority and trust their institutions.
That means restoring community, rebuilding institutions and deferring to authority.
But the British are far less litigious and more willing to defer to authority.
If you accept your risk factor – age, weight, underlying health condition – as your defining feature, you'll be inclined to defer to authority rather than explore the options.
You also had to get people to behave themselves -- to maintain two-parent households, to defer to authority and to police their own unruly impulses.
Of course the civil service covers a diverse range of services, but according to insiders, the culture is one of deferring to authority.
The industry has found this so successful that the methods are being adopted in other fields such as surgery, where deferring to authority may also lead to fatalities.
But it's also possible to read her findings in a humanistic way: deferring to authority could be a tendency that honors our less deliberative, more animalistic selves.
To try to understand how she could blindly defer to authority, she talks to Holocaust survivors and rereads exiled writers, such as Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht, who fled from Hitler to Santa Monica in the 1930s.
