Traditionally, deferential youths sprinkle scented water on their elders in exchange for a new year's blessing.
They are used to deferential and respectful, rather than adversarial relationships with their teachers.
Or should autopilot cars (with special running lights) be especially deferential to their inferior human counterparts?
And the deferential culture of the Pakistani state does not foster dissent or independent thinking.
He is the only civil servant who addresses Mr Tung as louhbaan, deferential Cantonese for boss.
Maybe we were there simply to show deferential regard, standing quietly in the presence of the dead.
Younger blacks were particularly unhappy with Jasper's black leaders, who, they said, were too deferential to whites.
Deferential Mr Singh, who might once have been expected to spearhead any reform efforts, turns 80 this year.
These new strategies present unknown and unprecedented challenges to regulators, and these new challenges call for a deferential approach.
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Though deferential and solicitous to her male colleagues, they openly questioned Amanda's decisions.
Forty years ago political parties could still count on a mostly deferential media.
In all poor countries, city-dwellers are better informed, and less deferential, than peasants.
The Palms now moves with a fluid grace--none of that "overly deferential Aman stuff, " as one well-traveled guest put it.
Executives, meanwhile, admit that the boot-camp approach that serves so well in China may not suit less deferential workers elsewhere.
Lord Cranborne was reportedly peeved that Mr Hague was not sufficiently deferential towards him after Mr Hague won the Tory leadership.
Watching her politics, one quickly notices that it is not true that Japanese people are always polite, respectful, and deferential to authority.
Sheikh Muhammad may need to be more deferential to his fellow ruler.
You can show deference to someone, you can be polite, you can be deferential, but those people have to earn their own respect.
In a less deferential society, today's soldiers would be unlikely to tolerate the level of censorship that was considered routine in previous conflicts.
Mousy and deferential, he keeps money hidden under the floorboards and, inside his uniform, an even more precious secret: he is a woman.
Under the circumstances, legislators may feel pressured to be deferential and to keep their questions more limited in scope and superficial rather than probing.
Mr Garrioch, as his title shows, wants to explain how Paris considered by contemporaries as peaceful, deferential and well governed became the revolutionary volcano of 1789-99.
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This conservative, hagiographic documentary is both a wistful, deferential tribute to the forever-young Dylan and a sad admission that Scor-sese, in effect, has always been old.
The Earl of Grantham, the owner of Downton Abbey, is deferential to the Duke of Crowborough merely because the latter was born higher in the aristocratic scale.
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"Nobody wants a supine, fully deferential BBC - but we do need to see that when the BBC says something, it isn't just recycling gossip, " he said.
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Gradually, and with little help from Rome, the American church is becoming better attuned to a flock that has become less deferential and less inclined to take things on trust.
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Then it was arguably better to make the country a constitutional monarchy rather than a republic, so as to build the widest support for democracy in a traditionally deferential society.
The General might have been too deferential to make this point himself, but we hope he asked the President in return to give him all the support he needs to succeed.
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