Sentence examples for our deference from inspiring English sources
"We had previously been mocked for our deference and timidity.
The Americans do not need us, and we have been rewarded for our deference with next to nothing.
Indeed, precisely because our authority over our own actions is an intrinsic feature of our agency, our deference to this authority is but the form of self-government.
Our deference to them as those people who could tell us which things are aluminium and which are molybdenum, means that our referents of 'aluminium' and 'molybdenum' are the same as theirs.
Our deference in matters of policy cannot, however, become abdication in matters of law.
Yet we chafe at our deference to the medical establishment when they withhold a vitally important choice from some patients.
That conforms to our obedient deference in the face of the mounting toll of freedoms lost since our political class has flung itself mind and soul into the atavistic battle against demons we call the "war on terror".
In this regards, the judge stated that "I'm not a special committee member, and under our law, deference is due to independent directors".
Our traditional deference to legislative policy choices finds a corollary in the principle that the Constitution "does not mandate adoption of any one penological theory".
Our emotional deference and childbearing responsibilities are what truly hinders us: women are their own worst enemy.
The Sherlockian character can only exist, in part, because of the inherent deference our culture still gives to white men, no matter how they behave.
