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Example sentences for: defer

How can you use “defer” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

I defer to the experts on whether the scenario Jones describes, if it happened, constitutes illegal sexual harrassment.
The other is the demand that judges defer to voters.
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.
Now, just because the Indonesian government is against higher labor standards doesn't mean either that the Indonesian people are against them or that we in the United States should simply defer to the wishes of other countries.