Sentence examples for demand for deference from inspiring English sources

The charge against the BBC – and the NHS – is that they reacted to honesty with a demand for deference, on pain of insecurity.

On the other hand, the way the Trump administration manipulated the roll-out of the new ban according to the ebb and flow of the news cycle undermines the administration's demand for deference on the topic of national security.

Clericalism is about deference, a demand for respect without scrutiny.

So cloying is the deference that few notice how the demand for "respect" gives away the shallowness of contemporary religious thought.

Eventually he even finds a measure of sympathy for his father, a patriarch whose demands for absolute deference from Mr. Ingrasciotta's mother cost him his marriage.

Despite doing little and achieving even less, they demand respect and deference from everyone.

Demands of deference to an organizational ethos.

Re "California's Governor Plays Tough on Crime" (news article, May 23): The marginal success of Gov. Gray Davis's zero tolerance crime policies underscores the dangers of a government that cedes the power of discretion in deference to public demand for law and order.

Mr Meles may offer clemency to some of the accused, but will demand political deference in return.

The court's precedents call for deference to an agency when the law is unclear.

When elite economists demand more deference to technocratic consensus, they not so subtly demand that (even more) immense political power be ceded to them and their grad-school pals.