| But I'm sure there are many people like me who would defer to scientific facts that are duly recorded and widely acknowledged. |
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| Yes, I would say that, in fact, when it comes to fiction, if I disagree, I defer to Jerry, because he's the fiction writer. |
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| Would we then defer to his expressed wishes and enact a scene of cathartic cruelty? |
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| Women are expected to defer to men even when male views are seen as wrong or incorrect. |
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| The temptation then is to defer to modern science and dismiss ancient pedigrees as old wives' tales. |
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| Better by far to humbly defer to the family matriarch for the perfect dish. |
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| Brides are expected to bring substantial dowries with them and to defer to their husbands in most matters. |
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| In both civil and criminal trials, appeals courts strongly defer to a jury's decision to believe one witness rather than another. |
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| The courts will most likely defer to the military on the issue of whether this policy furthers a compelling government interest. |
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| Traditionally, they are duty bound to defer to the wishes of their parents. |
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| I'll defer to the wine waiter to bring appropriate bottles at regular intervals. |
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| But it's also interesting and challenging to learn how to compromise with someone and to defer to their greater expertise on matters. |
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| We defer to those we respect and dominate those we do not, and we can do these acts simultaneously without contradiction. |
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| For example, engineering seems the ultimate realm where non-specialists, whatever their opinion, must defer to white-coated experts. |
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| That decision made clear courts would defer to prison administrators so long as they were acting out of legitimate penological interests. |
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| I will, of course, defer to your official spokesman there at the Pentagon. |
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| Some legal systems also have procedural rules that limit the court's ability to defer to another court. |
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| And since she realizes that outside editors often have a better sense of future readers' reaction than the author does, she'll often defer to your editorial judgment. |
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| Because the U.S. Constitution vests state lawmakers with such wide-ranging powers in these areas, on the classic view, courts must defer to state legislatures. |
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| I defer to Chris Brooke's knowledge of Augustine, but I suspect that St A's response to authoritarian measures would have been, shall be say, stoical. |
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| We don't defer to power structures and we don't acknowledge them. |
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| I wouldn't agree, but actually I defer to Linda Erdreich on that one. |
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| Scott, a heralded high school player from the Bronx, is a senior who did not hesitate to defer to the underclassman. |
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| Florida courts, however, will not defer to an agency's opinion that is contrary to law. |
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| A non-binding consultative body would defer to parliament but it would not necessarily be irrelevant. |
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| I will defer to my colleagues to get off the hot seat, but I would say I don't know the details of the particular proposal you're talking about. |
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| I believe that was the prior agreement, but I defer to your second review of this matter. |
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| People often see academics and others as 'experts' and defer to them with ease. |
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| I defer to my colleague on the subject matter that he has raised which is important as well. |
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| As a consequence, in his opinion, it was not only appropriate but necessary for him to defer to the will of ministers. |
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| Instead he will defer to a new supremo who will take charge in the spring. |
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| Throughout the turnaround period, the executives in the kitchen cabinet had essentially trained everyone else within the company to defer to them. |
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| Considering that there are often over 50 people on the ballot, voters to tend just defer to their party. |
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| I have an assistant who is a man, and people, new acquaintances, will automatically defer to him in meetings when I should be their primary contact. |
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| They are taught to be polite, obey their parents, and defer to authority. |
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| I think the 99 percent of us who have not read that work should defer to Mouw's summation that this is one of the mysteries that ultimately lies beyond human comprehension. |
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| Otherwise it must defer to Congress's judgment. |
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| In practice, the need for predictability means that lower courts generally defer to the precedent of higher courts. |
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| We have efficient refrigerators in Denmark and Austria, yet the choice has been made to defer to the fluorinated gases industry instead of to the environment. |
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| It is unwilling to defer to the authority of politicians who tell them they are ignorant, hysterical and blind to undreamt-of prospects of progress. |
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| Technocracies do not defer to local knowledge. |
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| They do not defer to the decisions of wise elders. |
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| The president respects him and has been known to defer to him. |
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| While CPSC is still mandated by Congress to defer to voluntary standards, its interference in the standards process needs to be reexamined. |
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| But by no means should we ever defer to the government and somehow take this bill out of circulation just because it feels that it should be taken out. |
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| Protocols of kinship behaviour, in which younger brothers are expected to automatically defer to elder ones, routinise the ideal pattern of fraternity. |
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| The appeal is a review for errors rather than a new trial, so the appellate court will defer to the discretion of the original trial court if an error is not clear. |
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