Individuals belong to a well-defined hierarchy, and are expected to defer to those with greater expertise.
The reason we should defer to experts is not that the experts know everything.
After a long August silence, it appeared that the FCC would defer to Congress after all.
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But the new happiness gurus are much less willing to defer to people's choices.
Reality: Millennials are more willing to defer to authority than either baby boomers or Gen Xers.
Conservative jurists in particular tend to defer to the principle of stare decisis, or established precedent.
We should appoint Nobel Laureates in climate, physics, biology, economics, etc and defer to their prescriptions.
With this in mind, Judge Pauley decided to defer to the government in this case.
Thanks to Clinton, the world will be less likely to defer to American leadership from now on.
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But up until now, she has been obliged to defer to precedents set by the Supreme Court.
But on the ground at the checkpoints, in the towns, on the roads the Malians always defer to France.
But I don't have a date certain for you and, obviously, we defer to the relevant committees.
As an appeals-court judge, she was always obliged to defer to precedents set by the Supreme Court.
Still, U.S. and other negotiators defer to Russia and other parties bent on delaying more effective international action.
We do not defer to any international organization in how we protect and defend our country from terrorist attacks.
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Should they defer to their husband when he insists that she stop kissing their first-grade son at school drop-off?
Admittedly, we are not fixed income experts, so we always find it helpful to defer to those that are.
But she has always known when to defer to Mr Obama or other cabinet secretaries, such as Tim Geithner.
Increasingly, on critical issue, national politicians defer to Brussels and so raise the question as to why vote for them.
An employee who answered the phone at the agency's Santa Monica, California, office said they would defer to Acura's apology.
In its majority opinion, the Supreme Court said that lower court judges should defer to the FCC's expertise in telecommunications matters.
We predict the legislature will ultimately defer to the SEC and the SEC will resume its ineffectual regulation of the industry.
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Now they'll defer to CBS Chief Mel A. Karmazin, who will funnel their cash into buying more TV and radio stations.
Mr Bush has always said he would defer to his military commanders, but this time he did not take their advice.
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And the President -- I may defer to Jay here -- the President has laid out his approach to deficit reduction.
Is he going to take control of what's happening up there, or is he going to continue to defer to Congress?
Where there are serious doubt, as there must be in this case, prudence demands that Congress defer to the electoral mandate.
Others argued that CMOs need to be mindful of and defer to the role, visibility and thought leadership position of the CEO.
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Defer to them in areas they may know better or when they are in a better place to make an educated call.
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