I will defer to my colleague

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

I will defer to my fellow Christian Americans to counsel him accordingly.

Feder: I will defer to Don, who knows much more about the rental market than we do.

I will defer to him on that," he said. .

"I will defer to the biologist to make that determination," he said.

CA: I will defer to our director Sean Arce for this one.

I will defer to Ron Smith's erudite review of the Seven Deadly Sins from your interview with him!

I defer to my colleague Amy Davidson's comparison of Afghan president Hamid Karzai to the perfidious Fredo, from "Godfather II," but feel compelled to disagree, amiably, when she refers to "Godfather III" as "awful".

I'll defer to sociologists on the meaning of this, but the popularity of social media is certainly one driver.

(I'll defer to Raffi Khatchadourian's great profile, written before Assange became quite so prominent, for a sense of how complicated Assange is).

Biggs is the resident watch expert here, so I'll defer to him for the lowdown on the watch part.

I'm sure we'll hear more murmurs on this subject before then, though, so I'll defer to potential future reports for now.