Sentence examples for degree of deference from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, the degree of deference to academic opinion is in general appreciably less than in the Continental countries.

A federal appeals court upheld the sentence, relying largely on a federal law that requires a significant degree of deference to state court rulings.

If the Queen had done the same with her views on our deportation policy, I would absolutely accord her the same degree of deference.

Our holding today is in keeping with our tradition of giving a degree of deference to a university's academic decisions, within constitutionally prescribed limits.

The degree of deference from news organizations, usually prickly about any infringement of First Amendment freedoms, is unusual, perhaps matching the enormity of the terrorist attack.

Therefore the judges may set some guidelines on the practice of targeted killing, and at the same time extend a wide degree of deference to the Israeli army as to how it applies these guidelines in practice.

There was undoubtedly a tradition of tolerance of minorities in Islamic Istanbul under the sultans, though it was exercised only in the presence of varying degrees of deference and demands.

In Asian countries, where primates abound, monkeys have for a long time been regarded with various degrees of deference that among Hindus in India, for instance—amounts almost to worship.

With the deadline passing this week for entries into the March 14 presidential election, Mr. Putin faces nine challengers characterized mostly by degrees of deference to the Kremlin and united by the fact that none have any chance of winning.

Later rulers of Egypt showed differing degrees of deference to the mosque and provided widely varying levels of financial assistance, both to the school and to the upkeep of the mosque.

On Russia's two largest channels, both government owned, and even on those with a lesser degree of state control, there is an uncritical deference to the nation's elected leader that would be unthinkable in Europe or the United States.