At first he had continued to show deference to Brown.

起初他对布朗仍然表示一定的尊敬。

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You can show deference to someone, you can be polite, you can be deferential, but those people have to earn their own respect.

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The second was a show of deference to Hiroshi Okuda, Toyota's chairman, who heads the Keidanren, a powerful business federation, which stands for company management and is a vocal advocate of both lower labour costs and wage-bargaining reform.

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Obama will no doubt show rather more deference to King Abdullah this time round in his requests.

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