Nevertheless, when courts are asked to review administrative inaction, they are usually much more deferential than when affirmative acts are challenged. 然而,当要求法院审查行政机关的不行动时,若和审查受到质疑的积极行为相比较,它们通常表示出更多的尊重之意。
deferential
[ adj ] showing deference <adj.all>
Deferential \Def`er*en"tial\, a. [See {Deference}.] Expressing deference; accustomed to defer.
Yet ultimately, the president's best hopes may lie in the deferential attitude of many Serbian voters, who have succumbed to his propaganda before and may be persuaded that whatever 'Slobo' says, goes.
Up to now, they've always remained almost deferential." Japan's more visible performance likely stems from its ability to successfully manage its economy and reduce its heavy dependence on sales of export goods, economists said.
They had access to cellular telephones, with which they could impart orders to their henchmen outside the prison walls, virtually limitless visits, and deferential treatment from prison guards and authorities.
Her husband, conductor Richard Bonynge, was her deferential piano accompanist.
Though he and Ms. Pedler resolved the matter, Mr. Anderson says that Ms. Pedler declines to play the role of the deferential executive director and that "some people find that alienating."
And when the father is in the U.S., the son is deferential.
To very important individuals like Mr. Giuliani, his manner is deferential; to lesser lights, he can be blunt, even rude.
If she is frustrated by this deferential role, she has become far too good a political trouper to let it show. Husband Bill, though, could hardly wait to get started.
French executives were publicly deferential to Peter Diamandis in day-to-day dealings.
Defense analysts and congressional observers have predicted that Tower, chairman of the panel during the first half of the Reagan administration, would receive deferential treatment and breeze to confirmation.