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A separate Post story notes that the House put off voting on a bill to strengthen Taiwan-American military relations in deference to the negotiations with China.
Jane and Mary's dependence and deference as they maneuver for Owens' attention (and money), Owens' domineering response to his "family," Olivia's defiance of Owens at the end--all are presumably meant to suggest, with due irony, that in America, plus ça
An experienced Democratic fund-raiser sounded the lonely note in a New York Times op-ed that star-struck local pols have chickened out of the race in deference to a carpetbagger.
Yet al Qaeda's deference to Hambali's turf apparently had limits.
The Jones case ruling came, explain the papers, in response to Starr's even broader request to halt all of the case's fact-finding in deference to Starr's criminal investigation.