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deference sentence examples

  • The culinary arts showing proper deference a lot tougher pizza boxes on.
  • Deference for authority.
  • He will take care that all due deference to be paid to his teachers by his pupils.
  • Deference in society as a whole.
  • Why did he have to pay deference to hanover in his foreign policy?
  • They are likely to be pragmatic rather than ideological and there is less deference to ' authoritative ' figures.
  • It is the lord that you must give deference to.
  • But in other respects the emperor showed his mother, helena, the greatest deference.
  • He was not deferential to his seniors and did not expect deference from his juniors.
  • It is not less social deference that is needed but more.
  • Many automatically feel a certain deference in their presence.
  • We have no whole oats, " the steward replied, with much deference.
  • It requires deference to authority and acceptance of fixed ideas, whereas science requires authority to be continually overthrown in favor of better ideas.

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