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Annan is building an organization we can live with, one that is smaller, better run, and more deferential to the United States.
1) Monica is the kind of woman who has a cell phone; 2) Monica is deferential to authority; and 3) Monica is not feeling too confident.
Until the late '60s, the Senate was deferential to the (many fewer) presidential nominees.
Prudie thanks you for expanding on her answer, as she is always deferential to physicians.
Clinton, after all, is incredibly deferential to his Joint Chiefs because of his own history of nonservice: It's impossible to believe that he would have overruled the chiefs if they were as absolute as the leaks suggest.