deference

How To Use deference In A Sentence

• 'I will not bear with interference, if not from Percy, certainly not from his deputy -- a mere spoilt child, a very good child, but spoilt by her position, by John's over-estimate of her, and by the deference exacted by her weakness and her engagingness. Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife
• And like past challenges to civilization, such barbarism thrives on Western appeasement and considers enlightened deference as weakness, if not decadence.
• Similarly, it is extremely important if you are dealing with any government employee or politician to give due deference. Times, Sunday Times
• So, on any test of scrutiny or deference, there is no arguable reason for suggesting that this point of the claimant makes the determination assailable.
• My latest academic upload is about the idea of social deference as a factor influencing vote.
• But our relationship should be one of mature partnership not one of undue deference.
• After charging his age with being an enervate breed which is "ever on his knees before the footstool of Authority," he goes on to observe that the process of statute-making ought to make one pause before according so much unquestioned deference to statutes.
• Either reverence, or deference, may have prevented him from bringing his prayers into entire harmony with his criticisms; or it may be that a discrepance, which we should constantly diminish, is likely to remain between our feelings and our logical necessities. Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques de Gen��ve; On the Mosaic Cosmogony; Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750; On the Interpr
• Omi crooked a finger for the waitress who offered the bill with subtle deference, and Omi paid it with subtle superiority.
• This wasn't a principle, it was personal, and it was forelock-tugging deference. Times, Sunday Times