Rumsfeld said he was deferring to "the expert" but at McCain's prompting, he then answered.
Last week, House Speaker John Boehner deflected questions on any vote, deferring to Issa's investigation.
She has struck a balance between deploying her star power and deferring to the president.
But Sy did little talking, instead deferring to Sy-Coson, who was by his side at all times.
That means listening as much as talking, keeping your conversation on safe subjects like hobbies, movies or family and deferring to superiors.
Their mother wonders aloud whether Jeffrey is subconsciously deferring to an older sibling whose every waking moment is dedicated to making it to London.
Collective action, nearly always preferable to the unilateral version, should entail America deferring to its allies as well as the allies deferring to America.
In that vein, Alan Martin, the 33 year-old CEO of CampusBookRentals, makes a valuable point before deferring to his elders on the issue of hiring.
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Dutifully deferring to Third Circuit rulings, a federal district court held in March that the Delaware State Police had imposed too high a standard on its job applicants.
So if a prison gets sued or if police officers get sued or a zoning board gets sued or a college gets sued, he is deferring to the authorities.
Ms. MacElree ended up resigning from some trusts -- deferring to her relatives and shielding herself against potential liability -- while voting the Class B shares she owned against the deal.
Back in June, as you may recall, Russia's Joint Institute for Nuclear Research proposed flerovium and muscovium as names for the two ultraheavy elements, while deferring to the IUPAC for final say on the matter.
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Minimally conscious state being a relatively new diagnosis, he says, it may be that some doctors are unfamiliar with its criteria, but that is all the more reason for deferring to the coma recovery scale.
Will we have a judicial branch that enforces the limits on government power that appear in the text of our Constitution, while deferring to the people and their elected officials in cases where the Constitution permits such action?
Valentine navigated his Boston premiere with precision, deferring to new Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington at times and resisting the kind of digs and pokes that made him not everyone's favorite as a manager but irresistible as an ESPN analyst.
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In the Senate, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, avoided a direct answer to repeated questions from reporters about his response to Obama's move, deferring instead to a speech by Romney later this week at a major Latino conference in Florida.
However, if you were planning to exercise in 2013 or 2014, then you want to see if this traditional strategy of deferring income to future years still applies in 2012 (see the relevant article serieselsewhere on this site).
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Dale Gauding, a spokesman for Sentara Healthcare, said the men were brought to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in a helicopter, but he declined to say what their conditions were upon arrival, deferring questions to the FBI.
Was there any benefit to deferring giving the MMR vaccine to children until their immune systems were better developed?
He became a reporter for the Harrow Observer at age 15 after deferring admission to the London School of Economics.
For now, Ready is deferring plans to enter China and Japan because he views their banking and regulatory environments as difficult to penetrate.
In earlier research, Mr. Mahaney highlighted another benefit to deferring benefits until later: If you expect much of your retirement income to come from tax-deferred savings, you might be better off using those assets first and delaying all, or a large chunk, of your Social Security.
The offer was a 20% premium to the market price and the highest bid but by spending only a week considering it, and apparently deferring too much to Lyondell's chief executive, the court said directors might have opened themselves up to personal liability.
Why then is the administration deferring so much to Capitol Hill to draft it?
The Wachowskis, in addition to deferring their directing fees, invested some of their own money in the project, betting their livelihood on its success.
The site's planning authority, Stafford Borough Council, which is also Conservative-run, approved the plans in October after twice deferring the decision to gather more information.
Society withers as individuals succumb by deferring moral responsibilities to government.
Data sense helps conserve your data allowance by compressing Web images, deferring data tasks to free Wi-Fi and automatically adjusting your usage as you get closer to your plan limits.
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The unifying theme of the separate opinions is vagueness, and whether courts should continue deferring so readily to Congress or federal agencies which so often draft laws or rules in imprecise or impenetrable language.
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Yesterday former Labor Secretary Robert Reich said he was worried that the Obama White House had over-learned the lessons of the Clinton years -- deferring too much to Congress when it came to crafting legislation.
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