John Forrest Tomlinson New York, July 24, 2009 To the Editor: Re "Case Recalls Tightrope Blacks Walk With the Police" (front page, July 24): Sure, the ideal response from Henry Louis Gates Jr. would have been deference, politeness, respectfulness and cooperation.
At the least, Mr. Tester said, the court could have given deference to local laws enacted to address local concerns.
Their downfalls come at a bad time for the city's super-rich, who for some time have enjoyed deference from Hong Kongers.
Judge Rakoff's decision "does not appear to have given deference to the S.E.C.'s judgment on wholly discretionary matters of policy," the appeals court said.
For decades, politics in India has involved deference, hierarchy and handouts, or archaic ideologies unchanged since the cold war.
"Five-time," Pettitte said, his own abbreviated explanation: Clemens has earned deference because he is a five-time Cy Young award winner.
Normally one would not expect the Bush attack on state authority to be taken seriously by a Supreme Court that has shown deference to state legislative and judicial determinations.
In their rage, the staff have shed all deference and discretion.
If anything, their expedition, one of two professional bids that season, may have merited some deference.
Which brings us to the UK, where we too have veered between deference, reverence, and revolution.
