Deferential in a sentence

The awareness of this history may have caused Jews to sometimes temper their responses to antisemitism, out of a deferential sense that there may be worse injustices that merit greater attention and outrage.

The fawning, deferential tone throughout the recent interview is totally embarrassing for Cavuto — or it would be, at least, if he had any shame.

But Trump and his allies have signaled a take-no-prisoners willingness to use lawsuits, regulatory agencies, and even private-sector acquisitions, to silence news media viewed as “enemies” and boost only the voices it deems appropriately deferential.

However, some Ohio officials have also been deferential to the will of Alaskans.

I don’t understand why President Biden has been so deferential to the U.A.E.: We have much more leverage over the U.A.E. than it does over us.

I tried to be deferential.

The headline’s implicit suggestion is that, somehow, for some puzzling reason, there may have been a scintilla of doubt that Trump was not going to adopt a “Staunch Pro-Israel Policy” like all his deferential predecessors.

The Supreme Court ruled that judges should play a limited, deferential role when evaluating the actions of agency experts who interpreted ambiguous statutes.

After all, if anyone sues, their employer can simply deem them “ministerial” under Alito’s deferential test, thwarting litigation.

All you Trumpers, between Trump’s comments about the military, and his subservient deferential behavior in regards to Putin, how much clearer does it need to get for you that Donald Trump is a traitor?

As entertaining as it can be, it is also disappointingly deferential to its subjects — the work of a filmmaker in thrall to characters who have welcomed him inside the bubble.

Asked by the interviewer what he meant by the idea that “racism can be deferential”, Fox answered ”This is why you don’t get actors involved in chats like this.

But the president, eager to restart the collapsing economy, was not so deferential earlier this week, and has vacillated wildly when discussing the nature of federal versus state powers as they apply to local stay-at-home orders.

Critics say the remarks were too deferential to a brutal dictator, and Amandi said it will allow Republicans to paint Bass as a radical socialist.

Now, it’s just a matter of doing everything possible to oust the current regime in Cuba from power and restoring a Batista-like dictatorship, one that will be loyal and deferential to the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA.

Still, Ocasio-Cortez also noted that the Democratic Party is too deferential toward fellow freshmen who flipped districts in 2018 that supported President Trump in 2016 and needs to be more radical.

The Governor of California went out of his way to be deferential to him *after* he sued a county.

They key, as always, is enlisting talented producers to steer the show in a direction that is deferential to the craft of filmmaking while also not enamored of the industry.

Through the glass windows, we could see much deferential nodding, submissive bows and polite conversation with the dethroned Mr and Mrs Shah.

A culture of deferential clericalism “helps to perpetuate many of the evils that we are condemning today.