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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