Even if you are innocent and can prove it, it could be more than a year before you get a hearing, and during those crucial months your compliance and deference are the currency that buys you visits with your children.
"We share your respect for, and deference to, the regular order of the Senate, and we recognize that this is an extraordinary request," the senators wrote.
If you've been too good to your in-laws out of deference to your spouse, you may be harboring resentment over the comments and actions of your in-laws.
They're not your children, they're not in a position of deference to your preferences.
In deference to your good faith here to, you may procedd with your intention as you may see fit.
The "religious" thing to do in this case would be for the mosque builders to say, yes, we realize the depth of your hurt, and although we would like to build a mosque here, in deference to your feelings we will not.
What you might do, in deference to your new neighbors, is give them a chance to remove this mosaic at their expense.
But even if there was nothing wrong with tooting at the table, I'd reach the same conclusion here, in deference to your red-hot feelings on the subject and 18 happy years together.
This limits your power to all but a handful of hangouts -- but I find it's always better to be treated with deference in your favorite haunts than to explore new ones and be made to feel like a loser all over again".
Still, I think it makes sense to be gracious and to grant your reviewers as much deference as possible.
And we know that a society liberated by the revolutions of the Sixties and Eighties is impatient with hierarchy, deference and know-your-place politics.
