Even in such cases, however, we have not deferred to an agency's conclusion that state law is pre-empted.
The earliest adopters of new versions of Microsoft's operating systems tend to be consumers rather than businesses, a pattern Mr. Klein said he expected to continue with Windows 8. Microsoft said revenue from its core Windows operating system declined 33 percent to $3.24 billion,though it declined 9 percent if Microsoft had not deferred revenue related to Windows 8.
But the company said that showing would have been much stronger if it had not deferred $1.64 billion in revenue as a result of delays in the latest versions of its mainstay products, Windows Vista and Office 2007.
What if the patient had not deferred?
Administration officials counter that the president's initiative would not otherwise have gotten as far as it has, with bills passed in four out of five committees, if he had not initially deferred to Congress.
The colonel was clever and more educated than his counterparts, which may have been why he would not defer to his antagonist, Lieut-Colonel Yakubu Gowon, the federal supreme commander; or perhaps he was just proud and obstinate, as his critics had it.Of course, the general, as he soon made himself, had a difficult part to play.
Technocracies do not defer to local knowledge.
They did not defer to white people.
With legendary leaders from Netscape, American Express, PayPal, and Netflix, the board should not have deferred to an all-powerful Mark Zuckerberg, even if Zuckerberg did control 60% of the stock.
That clergyman presumably would not have deferred to the expertise of a claimed "fairyologist" on the exact shape and colour of fairy wings.
And while this incidents reiterates how heavy the load, as this saga unfolds, we must remember that Gates' dream has not been deferred.
