8 sentences with “deference”

Note that even in this letter of protest, the humble and submissive tone shows the continued deference of the Massachusetts Assembly to parliamentary authority.

For the next two centuries, the Abbasid caliphs enjoyed the respect and spiritual deference of most Sunni Muslims, but exercised no political power of their own.

At this time kings and queens expected respect and deference, but conspicuously absent was any appeal to what was later called the "Divine Right" of monarchs to rule.

The nobles of Versailles were reminded of two things at once: their dependence and deference to the king, but also their own dignity and power as those entitled to be close to the king.

The rituals were carefully organised not only to represent deference to Louis XIV, but to emphasise the hierarchy of ranks among the nobles themselves, undermining their unity and forcing them to discuss their favour.

During the colonial era, wealthy planters and merchants in the American colonies had modeled their behaviour on the British ruling class, whose social order demanded deference to those of lower rank. Old habits die hard.

As described in the previous chapters, the medieval monarchy system was one in which kings were in reality the first among the nobles; their power was based primarily on the lands they held through their family dynasty, not on the taxes or deference they extracted from other nobles or commoners.

Adams wrote: "It is, moreover, [the Massachusetts House of Representatives] humble opinion, which they express with the greatest deference to the wisdom of Parliament, that the acts done there, which impose duties on the people of this province, for the sole and express purpose of raising a revenue, are violations of their natural and constitutional rights; because, not being represented in Parliament, His Majesty's Commons in Great Britain, by those acts, bestow their property without their consent."