It was a standard line intended to offer respect and deference to President Bush, even as it bought him time to absorb the new bounty of responsibilities before him.
Next month, she is planning to whittle her current menu, removing the tacos and enchiladas that she offered in deference to requests.
The same inclusive spirit may be evident this weekend, when, according to news media speculation, some Roman Catholic blessings are expected to be offered in deference to Katie Holmes's family.
Indeed, although White had offered a friendly deference in his design, Warren & Wetmore treated the Hollins property as a stranger.
But industrial designers, he said, are rarely offered the same deference — in part, because most people regularly make taste-based decisions, about shoes and lamps.
How ironic it is, then, that Australia pays such credit to the defending Turks "our boys" fought against, at our national secular shrine, the war memorial, yet offers no official deference at all to the Indigenous people who sought to defend their continent from invasion from "Australia Day" 1788.
(India had also offered extensive basing rights, but the Pentagon turned down this offer, partly out of deference to Musharraf).
Glasgow doesn't offer the knee-jerk deference that combines with subtle subversion in the Highlands, or the rigid social stratification you might meet in Edinburgh.
It was enough that they obey them, that they observe the laws in their behaviour, and that they offer them the public deference that was appropriate to their status as God's representatives, worthy or otherwise, on earth.
However, Diocletian was to offer proof of his deference towards the Senate by retaining Aristobulus as ordinary consul and colleague for 285 (one of the few instances during the Late Empire in which an emperor admitted a privatus as his colleague) and by creating senior senators Vettius Aqulinus and Junius Maximus ordinary consuls for the following year – for Maximus, it was his second consulship.
