If everyone's a star, no one is - so forget the traditional deference that fans once accorded the famous.

But he said he was not inclined to grant the traditional deference of delaying a vote for any reason at all.

It will focus on modernizing its political system, on deregulating its economy and on defining its interests without its traditional deference to American views.

Breaking with this traditional deference, Spitzer took up civil actions and criminal prosecutions relating to corporate white-collar crime, securities fraud, Internet fraud, and environmental protection.

But she asserted that in declining to provide a copy of the Freeh memorandum, she was relying on traditional Congressional deference toward criminal investigations.

The court curbed the reach of the 1996 legislation and refused to give the traditional judicial deference to immigration policies adopted by the executive branch.

Our traditional deference to legislative policy choices finds a corollary in the principle that the Constitution "does not mandate adoption of any one penological theory."

But even more heartening, and unexpected, has been the fearlessness of ordinary Russians in rejecting their traditional deference to authority.

Troops confront the peaceful demonstration, led by Father Gapon, in which traditional deference was combined with demands for far-reaching social and political reform.

A young girl will flirt, her mother will coddle and scold, and both will serve guests, particularly male ones, with traditional Asian deference.