Sentence examples for deferred to older from inspiring English sources

Indeed, just as the young residents deferred to older ones at public meetings, they did the same inside their homes, where three or four generations typically live together.

A Russian historian testified that in the culture of that region, siblings traditionally defer to older brothers.

In some cases, the youths played an integral role, in one instance negotiating a price with the undercover detective until, unable to get the desired price for a.380-caliber pistol, the youth deferred to an older man, another prosecutor, Steven Weiser, said.

They started to reshape societies where the young defer to the old, toppling old hierarchies along with governments.

Unlike the law courts, the newspapers still deferred to the authority of old-fashioned expertise.

She defers to her older teammates when it comes to setting the training pace.

Mr. Gruzen says the new tower will be glass with "a soft receding look," to defer to the older building, where restoration work will replace missing finials and copper details, which have been removed over time.

Still he defers to his older brother on all things.

As Obama suggested in Philadelphia on March 18th, when he delivered an intimate lecture on the politics of race, he deferred to the authority of the older man's experience — to Wright's "memories of humiliation and doubt and fear... the anger and the bitterness of those years" — even though Obama shared neither the extent of the experience nor the harsh views that derived from it.

Even her older sister, Hoda, deferred to her".

In the traditional hierarchy of African villages, the old are elaborately deferred to by the young.