deference
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Deference also arises in large part from the understanding that the executive brings significant expertise through the various national security agencies, a synthesis of professional knowledge and experience that courts do not possess.
From Slate • Apr. 19, 2018
Deference to industry in the absence of any true data privacy rules represents a judgment that market efficiency is more important than potential social harm.
From The Verge • Feb. 11, 2015
Deference was the practice of showing respect for individuals who had distinguished themselves through military accomplishments, educational attainment, business success, or family pedigree.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
Deference has been an important tool for the transmission of culture.
From Salon • May 20, 2012
So that his Clinches, false Wit, and descending beneath himself, may have proceeded from a Deference paid to the then reigning Barbarism.
From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by Smith, David Nichol
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