defection

How To Use defection In A Sentence

• The controversial defection law was put on ice yesterday pending a Constitutional Court decision, leaving some politicians in limbo and others scrambling for survival.
• There have been several defections from the ruling party.
• But in Johnson's inner circle of advisers, there were fewer defections.
• From time to time, bits of scraggy information leaked out, courtesy of a spectacular defection or from a John le Carré spy novel.
• But I look for better things of you — and specially ye maun be minded not to act altogether on your ain judgment, for therethrough comes sair mistakes, backslidings and defections, on the left and on the right. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
• After all, natural selection puts a premium on passing genes to future generations, and how can it shape a behavior that is “altruistic” in the long term when defection offers such tempting short-term rewards? SuperCooperators
• The simplemindness of this musing is truly impressive — a Republican state legislator from a semi-rural Virginia exurb of DC makes an offensive claim that birth defects are divine punishment after abortions and you imagine that is cause for defections from the GOP and into the arms of the Obama administration?! The Volokh Conspiracy » Birth Defects as God’s Punishment for Abortion
• It's no wonder then, that Paul calls down God's curse, God's anathema, His ban on those behind their potential defection from Christ.
• The defection comes at an awkward time for Mr Cameron. Times, Sunday Times
• The time was nearly ripe for general defection; loyalty was strained to breaking-point when Frederic began to appoint for each city a resident commissioner (_podesta_), empowered to exercise the regalian rights and to collect the revenue accruing from them. Medieval Europe