"I'm supposed to start business school this fall, but I may defer so that I can help my dad's campaign..."....
"I'm supposed to start business school this fall, but I may defer so that I can help my dad's campaign... .......
Or, "What would you do if it were your mother?" And still others may defer to certain cultural traditions, such as some Asian parents who say, "I don't want to know, tell my son".
A governor of a state or lieutenant governor of a province may defer assent to the governor-general, who may in turn defer it to the sovereign.
He may defer a decision about deploying the system, but there is virtually no chance that he will decide a missile defense is unnecessary.
Mr. Clinton may defer the deployment decision to a successor, but there seems to be too much political momentum behind the idea of an antimissile system for the United States to abandon it now.
On the one hand, there is the danger that we overestimate the abilities of computers – because they beat us at chess and maths, we may defer to them regarding decisions that they are not equipped to take.
"Common sense dictates that otherwise, who would want to work with public insurance recipients?" The clinic often finds itself dealing with conditions like advanced hypertension and diabetes because patients without adequate insurance may defer care.
When community hospitals close, hundreds of people in a small town can lose their jobs, town residents may defer important preventive care, and emergency care is often far less accessible.
The French may defer to power, and Americans may be less respectful to authorities, and this may well be part of the reason why a huge proportion of Americans are in prison compared to France — and why there is so much more crime in America.
