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Last week’s wins snapped a three-game losing streak for Hrvard. Still, though Stehle has been the leader in getting the team back on track, he is quick to defer the credit to his teammates...
...yearly operating expenses. “In my opinion, this is not an appropriate expenditure of community funds,” Healy said to councillors, who had heard from more than a dozen members of the dance groups earlier in the meeting. The Council voted unanimously to defer voting on the fate of the dance floor until its next term begins in January...
...Whether between Islam and Christianity or the West and the East, I will defer to the people handling the program,” he said. “I defer to them in that respect...
...some time off to do something different and “reflect” can indeed be useful. In fact, Harvard encourages an interim year (or “gap year” as they call it in England) between high school and college by offering the chance to defer admittance. In some cases the school requires some to take a year off before matriculating, resulting in a group of students affectionately termed the “Z-listers...
...according to a September brief from FAIR, “the courts traditionally defer to the military” only on “complex, subtle, and professional” decisions regarding issues such as strategy and training. By contrast, a court of nine law school graduates is “perfectly competent” to decide whether the military needs campus access “in order to attract the attention of brilliant young lawyers.” FAIR will argue that the Solomon Amendment is unnecessary for that purpose...