Norwegian media have pledged not to print or broadcast the most horrifying testimony, out of deference to relatives as well as to avoid giving Mr Breivik a platform for his message of hatred.One daily, Dagbladet, has inserted a button on its web edition that removes all mention of the trial from screens.
Its traditional relative indifference towards neuroscience and deference to environmental contingencies is rejected by neuroscientists sure that direct study of the brain is the only way to understand the truly proximate causes of behavior.
In deference to the bereaved relatives of the young people who died at the venue I will not describe this closure as a tragedy, but it was a severe blow to the Scottish cultural community.
Despite agreement on the law and the desired outcome of the case within the administration as a whole, there has been mounting frustration at the White House and the State Department, where officials feel that the Justice Department and immigration authorities moved too slowly early in the case and showed too much deference to Elian's relatives in Miami.
It seems that within factor 2 the placing of these statements is determined by that factors deference to patient choice; the relative value of end of life treatment is determined by whether individual patients want to avail themselves of it – if they do, it should be provided regardless of cost.
Based on the relative safety of these diagnostic procedures, and in deference to patient preference and autonomy, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recently recommended that all pregnant women regardless of maternal age should have the option of having an invasive diagnostic test to definitively identify not only DS, but all major fetal aneuploidies.
Unfortunately, patterns get set in stone when we give in to demanding people and in many cases, the pattern is handed down through families, with undeserved deference passed on as baggage from relatives who have never learned to set boundaries themselves.
It is Obama's continued deference to the sensibilities of the financiers and his relative indifference to the suffering of ordinary people that threaten his legacy, not to mention the nation's economic well-being.
In all of these areas there appear to have been some chiefs who were supported principally by tribute from their subjects, who were the object of considerable deference, who could punish offenses (especially against themselves and their own relatives) by fines, destruction of property, or death, and whose principal wives were generally members of other high-ranking families.
