Or should autopilot cars (with special running lights) be especially deferential to their inferior human counterparts?
Younger blacks were particularly unhappy with Jasper's black leaders, who, they said, were too deferential to whites.
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.
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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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.
An insecure leader who is overly deferential to his experts, such as Lyndon Johnson or Churchill in 1925 when restoring the gold standard at prewar parity is destined for catastrophe.
When a new editor came in toward the end of the war, however, the character took on a new demeanor deferential to her male counterparts and seemingly helpless against a constant onslaught of villains bent on abducting her.
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Although the ADA is deferential to national governments when it comes to the details of implementing their antidumping laws, it does articulate certain minimum standards intended to limit the scope for abuse, such as reaching affirmative findings of dumping when no dumping has occurred or manufacturing punitively high antidumping duty rates, for example.
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Under the circumstances, legislators may feel pressured to be deferential and to keep their questions more limited in scope and superficial rather than probing.
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.
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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They are used to deferential and respectful, rather than adversarial relationships with their teachers.
Though deferential and solicitous to her male colleagues, they openly questioned Amanda's decisions.
Maybe we were there simply to show deferential regard, standing quietly in the presence of the dead.
You can show deference to someone, you can be polite, you can be deferential, but those people have to earn their own respect.
Those who have watched his work at the Supreme Court over the past 27 years believe Rehnquist will be far more deferential than he is accustomed to being on his own turf.
"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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But the secret police and army, his family-connected network of businessmen and cronies, who control much of the economy and suborn enough politicians, and a slavishly deferential state-controlled press all contrive to keep him going.
Deferential Mr Singh, who might once have been expected to spearhead any reform efforts, turns 80 this year.
In a less deferential society, today's soldiers would be unlikely to tolerate the level of censorship that was considered routine in previous conflicts.
These new strategies present unknown and unprecedented challenges to regulators, and these new challenges call for a deferential approach.
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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.
There has been a shift in the way people address each other in public places, such as hospitals, from using more deferential terms, such as "sir" and "madam" to more familiar terms that people have imported from their personal relationships.
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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In the fall of 2009, when news emerged that Iran had secretly built a uranium enrichment plant on an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps base near Qom, ElBaradei went to Iran, and on Oct. 4 made a statement there that could hardly have been more deferential toward the UN sanctioned and nonproliferation-treaty-violating Iranian regime.
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