The week was marked by continued deference to Trump on the part of congressional leaders who have swallowed the president's upending of long-standing party views on several major issues.
It is also noteworthy, that during Marshall's 34 years as chief justice, his court was marked by remarkable deference to Congress, what many of us extol as judicial restraint.
The judges are always represented standing when in the presence of Dizang, as a mark of their deference to him.
In China, tables ought to be set far apart to show deference to each side.
The SAC settlement marks the first time, to my knowledge, that the S.E.C. has accorded such deference to a hedge fund, and it also raises the question of whether the Justice Department is now ducking bringing criminal charges against Cohen himself.
President Arroyo said today that she was declaring a cease-fire in deference to the Muslim holiday of Id al-Adha, the Islamic feast of sacrifice marking the end of hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
His supporters say he has only kept quiet out of deference to Dr Mahathir, and will now be free to make his own mark.
The tendency to blame the artist ("who the hell does she think she is?"), the deference to the attitude that discounts the filmmaker's creative furies, is a mark of critics' demagogy, or even their resentment of those who, unlike themselves, manage to work beyond the boundaries of the columns.
In deference to the US, this was the first international treaty written in English; but it also turned out to mark the incipient decline of the world's greatest English-speaking institution, the British empire.
Why? Deference to power".
Perhaps out of deference to the club?
