Word: defers
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...true right of a minority, and it is being fully satisfied. There is no denying that if the minority loses once the issue is put to the test, it will still find the decision hard to accept. But the rights of a minority do not include having others defer to them out of a fear of backlash from their displeasure; backlash is not an argument to be met, but only a conjecture, a caution and a threat. The majority, too, has rights and if, after all the debating and deciding, the trial and the defense, the majority...
...tendency of most of the members of the planning discussions who were not technical or institutional experts was to defer to those who were, those who had studied the problems. This lessened what Bose thought could have been constructive debate about the particular planning problems...
...steer the committee in only one direction. Aside from Strauch, most committee members point to Dean Whitlock as the most influential among their number. Whitlock, who has 26 years of administrative experience at Harvard, knows so much about how things operate in the undergraduate sphere, that members often defer to his experience...
When Bonjour Tristesse appeared in 1954, Françoise Sagan became a 19-year-old member of le tout Paris and an instant international celebrity. The world soon learned that she drank a lot of Scotch, loved to play chemin defer and drive Jaguars in her bare feet. The characters in her subsequent books, among them such bestsellers as Aimez-Vous Brahms? and A Certain Smile, tended to be beautiful, languid, bent on self-destruction. They were often driven by pangs of ennui, whose meaning in French implies more cosmic pain than its English translation ("boredom") can possibly convey...
Bowing to the pressure, the Senate then moved to defer consideration of the money-supply bill. But Whitlam took up the challenge: he said that he would treat a Senate deferral as a refusal of supply. He therefore sought the dissolution of Parliament and called for general elections to be held on May 18. Frustrated by his defeat in the Gair imbroglio and the Senate's long-term obstruction of his program, Whitlam had only one means of gaining control in the Senate-to take the risk of a new election...