These new strategies present unknown and unprecedented challenges to regulators, and these new challenges call for a deferential approach.

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This conservative, hagiographic documentary is both a wistful, deferential tribute to the forever-young Dylan and a sad admission that Scor-sese, in effect, has always been old.

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Forty years ago political parties could still count on a mostly deferential media.

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"Nobody wants a supine, fully deferential BBC - but we do need to see that when the BBC says something, it isn't just recycling gossip, " he said.

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Gradually, and with little help from Rome, the American church is becoming better attuned to a flock that has become less deferential and less inclined to take things on trust.

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Traditionally, deferential youths sprinkle scented water on their elders in exchange for a new year's blessing.

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The Palms now moves with a fluid grace--none of that "overly deferential Aman stuff, " as one well-traveled guest put it.

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I'm regularly amazed, for instance, at the overly-deferential welcome reserved for visiting writers, scholars and polemicists, some of whom are granted a star status here that they could never hope to achieve at home.

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