You can show deference to someone, you can be polite, you can be deferential, but those people have to earn their own respect.

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The second was a show of deference to Hiroshi Okuda, Toyota's chairman, who heads the Keidanren, a powerful business federation, which stands for company management and is a vocal advocate of both lower labour costs and wage-bargaining reform.

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Obama will no doubt show rather more deference to King Abdullah this time round in his requests.

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Female subordinates can show less respect and deference to female bosses than to their male bosses.

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"People yield a deference to what we may call the theatrical show of society, " he wrote.

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But it's also indicative of the deference Brazil's new middle class consumers show to automakers and most other industries.

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