| He is perfectly mannerly, but has the air of a man who expects, and receives, deference. |
| What is difficult to understand is why so much deference is paid to the threats from the Right. |
| Even the exalted Christ continues to employ the idiom of reverential deference for the Ancient of Days! |
| Institutions that were once accorded great deference including the government and the military are now eyed warily. |
| With deference to tradition, the cardinals went first, archbishops and bishops followed and the priests came last. |
| Serfdom did not reach them, and they looked on European Russians as lickspittles and prided themselves on their lack of deference to the centre. |
