Every act of deference thus becomes an abdication of one s own intellectual authority.

It's based on more voluntary deference, and even elements of love, at times.

Wifely deference may be seen as reinforcing the husband s obligation to support the family.

Soviet era deference to paternalistic leaders gave way to self confidence and distrust of established authority.

In the end, it requires a certain deference of national sovereignty to quot higher quot authority.

Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right, said the stranger with deference.

Christians may have believed in sin. The values espoused by the Church were paid their due deference.

As prime minister, Nehru carefully nurtured the country s infant democratic institutions by showing them respect, even deference.

Determining when it is permissible to interfere with parental choices is challenging, given the deference that parents typically receive.

The balance between judicial activism and judicial deference will alter over time and between countries, and tensions can arise.

It is unreasonable in this democratic age to pay special deference to people solely on the basis of their birth.

Post American Europeans need to shake off their habitual deference and complacency towards the US or reconcile themselves to deserved American indifference.

In most such instances there is no element of coercion by the parents but deference by the children to their parents' wishes.

In deference to the United Nations and as a gesture of our goodwill and cooperation, we will receive him again this year.

The model in public health is smoking, though the list of overlapping and contradictory causes implies greater deference to factors beyond our control.

If too much deference to great artists is the mark of a society that has never quite escaped from its aristocratic roots, too little regard for them is a sign of narrow philistinism.

The accused are being represented by lawyers, some of whom they chose themselves and some of whom were appointed by the court in deference to the absolute right to defence under the law.

Women did not take on chiefly titles in part because of a traditional deference to male members of the family and in part because they were loath to assume the weight of responsibility involved.

Asians, according to this theory, have their own values, which include thrift, deference to authority, the sacrifice of individual to collective interests, and the belief that countries should not stick their noses into others affairs.

By contrast, women with less economic autonomy may feel that their interests are best served by emphasizing family hierarchies and reciprocal duties. Wifely deference may be seen as reinforcing the husband s obligation to support the family.

Even more alarming was the State party's labelling of the latter two as sensitive matters human rights could never be sacrificed out of deference to sensitive matters , as the Government was responsible for protecting all its citizens.

The loss of confidence that Americans have expressed may be rooted in a deeper shift in people s attitudes toward individualism, which has brought about decreased deference to authority. Indeed, similar patterns are characteristic of most post modern societies.

But the Supreme Court's rulings affirm the fundamental principle that even grave dangers do not warrant the sort of blanket deference to which the Bush Administration believes it is entitled whenever it utters the words war and terrorism.

Without deference to or fear of the Party, Dr. Jiang castigated China's leaders for the way that they mobilized all sorts of propaganda to fabricate lies and used high handed measures to silence the people across the country.

Some American civil rights lawyers, out of natural deference to the United States Constitution s First Amendment were, however, reluctant to sign up to this principle unless it was qualified by a reference to the threat of imminent violence.

The Committee considers these statements to contain ideas based on racial superiority or hatred the deference to Hitler and his principles and footsteps must, in the Committee's view, be taken as incitement at least to racial discrimination, if not to violence.

With due deference to the 2003 Evian approach , there has, however, been no real initiative to address the debt of low income and middle income developing countries that are not part of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Debt Initiative process.

6.7 By further letter of 17 November 2003, the author supplies three decisions of provincial courts endorsing the holding of the Divisional Court in his case concerning the fact finding expertise of human rights commissions and the appropriate level of deference.

As to the article 14 claim, the State party emphasizes the Committee's deference to factual and evidentiary findings of domestic courts unless manifestly arbitrary, amounting to a denial of justice or revealing a clear breach of the judicial duty of impartiality.

However, these delegations had, in the spirit of compromise, come to support the proposal in A CN.9 WG.III WP.54, particularly due to its deference to the existing international arbitration regime, and to its maintenance of the status quo in regard to arbitration practices in the maritime transport industry.

However, in deference to the views of a number of countries that wished to emphasize the intergovernmental nature of the Conference and its preparatory process, it was agreed that Member States should have the freedom to choose their own rules of access for participation of non governmental organizations at the national level.