Sentence examples for deferred me from inspiring English sources

But the fact that Harvard had deferred me told me that they saw something in me they liked.

But I hadn't bothered to think of it in a more positive way: they deferred me because they couldn't reject me, because they saw potential and couldn't say no.  .

I had only been looking at it from one side: I thought they deferred me because something was missing; perhaps I didn't seem good enough to them when they read my application.

"Every major decision he has deferred to me.

"Ted graciously deferred to me as the lead sponsor of the bill, even though he chaired the committee".

She deferred to me, and I was happy to give her an enormous amount of decision-making just as a gift and let her take charge of so many things.

'He totally defers to me,' she says.

If so, even then there is a wonderful kind of rapprochement, with Field courteously deferring to me (he's such a mensch!).

He was obliging and efficient and charged me (deferred payment system) two annas a page.

Let me defer to a rather authoritative voice, that of Stravinsky.

Why does someone like me defer to a policeman, after all?