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Example sentences for: deferring

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Either way, throughout his tenure he avoided making decisions, instead deferring to the president and playing different factions within his own government off one another.
A piece assesses George W. Bush's foreign policy, arguing that he covers up his ignorance of foreign affairs by deferring to experts from his dad's administration, including Condoleezza Rice and Brent Scowcroft.
Had it been accepted, he says, he would have taken on the al Qaeda mission instead of deferring to Zinni.
Last week, House Republicans tried to postpone a fiscal squeeze by deferring payment of the Earned Income Tax Credit to low-income workers.
The LAT says that Republicans wanted in return for deferring a treaty vote an ironclad promise from the Democrats not to bring the treaty up during the election, but "Clinton feared making such a pledge would tie his hands in the event of a diplomatic emergency."