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The Washington Post seems to think that George W. Bush's criticism of GOP budget proposals that defer tax credits to low-income earners is more important--it runs that story across five columns at the very top while tucking the nuke puke underneath.
When it came to executive-branch appointments, Hatch was adamant that the Senate defer to the president's choices.
People pretty much expect to be taken care of no matter what is wrong with them, and once they get their "insurance" card the hemorrhoid sufferers generally will not defer to congestive heart failure, for example, so the Oregon plan has a fatal flaw; the most basic flaw of all--human nature.
Al Qaeda's chief financial manager, Sheikh Saeed, argued that al Qaeda should defer to theTaliban's wishes.
Typically, justices defer to the judgment of the executive branch during the event--that is, they would be unlikely to grant an injunction preventing the city from enforcing its curfew while the WTO is in town.