Word: defer
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...government must take care to "give him as much opportunity as possible to present his case." For instance, says Chayes, it might consider appointing a neutral tribunal of lawyers or judges to take testimony from Marcos in Hawaii. In Manila's favor is the fact that federal courts usually defer to presidential policy in cases touching upon foreign affairs. In the government papers thus far filed in Marcos legal matters, the White House has indicated a pro-Aquino tilt...
...most obvious answer--and the one we hear from supporters of disinvestment--is yes. We want to help Blacks achieve their freedom, they say. Black South Africans know their own situation best. So they understand best what we can do to help them, and we should defer to their judgment...
Before that announcement, Adams, Dunster, Lowell, and Mather Houses decided to boycott the CRR, while Cabot, Dudley, Eliot and Quincy Houses opted to defer decisions until the Faculty Council's review was completed...
...asserted correctly--and not anti-Semitically, that while the Jewish intellectuals emphasized their own cultural independence, they played fast and loose with the cultural independence of Blacks by advocating integration. As long as Black intellectuals continued to defer to their Jewish colleagues, according to Cruse, the Black community would be devoid of the kind of intellectual scrutiny that defined the Jewish community...
...personally beneficial utility being used in an anti-social way. If umbrella users were more considerate they might peacefully coexist with those who use other means of staying dry. For example, the carriers could make efforts to keep their barbed canopies above eye level and, like cars, they could defer the right of way to less menacing pedestrians...