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The deferential Betts has been more reserved in his own analysis, emphasizing he still has much to learn.

If both teams win out, El Camino Real would receive the No. 1 seed for the first City Section Open Division playoffs by virtual of goal deferential in the two games they’ve faced each other.

The Irish observers felt he identified a "hierarchy of witnesses" and was "clearly more deferential" to the British police, military and political witnesses.

The Supreme Court has grown more deferential to Trump, who appointed three of its nine members.

Laws challenged on that ground are ordinarily subject to relaxed and deferential judicial scrutiny called rational basis review.