Sentence examples for defers from inspiring English sources

Only if the ICJ rejects Chile's position, or defers a decision, will it consider Bolivia's claim that Chile has an "obligation to negotiate" access to the sea.

For that brief spell, they have a unique opportunity to put their imprint on history a honeymoon period when the public gives them the benefit of the doubt and Congress defers to their popular mandate and they squander it at their peril.One of the most striking things about Barack Obama is that his 100 days seem to have already begun.

ISIS's foray into Syria has led it openly to defy al-Qaeda's overall leadership, to which it supposedly defers.

EFF objected on First Amendment grounds; a judge found in EFF's favour because the review hasn't yet concluded, and thus there's no basis on which to make the claim).Mr Carolla cultivates a laddish persona, but appreciates EFF's efforts and has developed an unwanted expertise in patent issues, even as he defers to his lawyers (on his side "for now", he notes).

But they also fear Mr Sadr.In Qom, Iran's main seminary town, Mr Sadr's few supporters rally around Ayatollah Kazem Haeri, the cleric to whom, at least notionally, Mr Sadr defers in matters of theology and law.

In return, the Justice Department defers prosecution.The first of Toyota's recalls because of unintended acceleration occurred in October 2009, shortly after an officer of the California Highway Patrol and several family members were killed in a fiery crash involving a Lexus model.

Even in making machine-tools, it defers only to the United States, Japan and Germany, and engineering graduates from Turin and Milan are world-class.Another sign of vitality is the alacrity with which many Italian firms, especially in the north-east, have invested in Central Europe.

Almost every day the sole national daily, the Zimbabwe Herald, which slavishly defers to Mr Mugabe, carries headlined protestations of loyalty from such people as Solomon Mujuru, a former head of the army who is also one of Zimbabwe's richest men and happens to be married to one of its two vice-presidents.

As to whether they are really in decline, in a way that is susceptible to measurement, he defers to the scholarship of Mr Putnam.

But it also defers the benefits that full control might bring in terms of saving costs by integrating Alcon into its business.

Even football, the most global game, defers to Britain's role in originating the rules of international sport in the 19th century.