How To Use Defection In A Sentence
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The controversial defection law was put on ice yesterday pending a Constitutional Court decision, leaving some politicians in limbo and others scrambling for survival.
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There have been several defections from the ruling party.
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But in Johnson's inner circle of advisers, there were fewer defections.
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From time to time, bits of scraggy information leaked out, courtesy of a spectacular defection or from a John le Carré spy novel.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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The defection comes at an awkward time for Mr Cameron.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Ms. Rousseff's move stanched evangelical defections.
Brazil Vote's Winners: Evangelicals
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They argue that a new Bill permitting defections at national and provincial level will be introduced soon, which will provide for retrospective protection of MPs and MPLs who abortively crossed the floor.
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THINGS I DIDN'T SEE COMING: With only one episode to go, Mad Men delivers one of its greatest surprises to date, as notorious chain-smoker Don Draper publishes a one-page "Why I'm Quitting Tobacco" manifesto in The New York Times to (as Peggy quotes him) "change the conversation" about the firm's persona non grata status since the Lucky Strike defection.
Matt's TV Week in Review
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Defection on the way to Americanization was common; vitiated practice and invincible vagueness about belief and conviction were not a cause for alarm but the best that could be achieved under unpropitious conditions.
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But in Johnson's inner circle of advisers, there were fewer defections.
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On his reputation alone, the Leafs paid almost $1 million in salary and under-the-table costs to fenagle the defection, but it turned out Ihnacak wasn't as big, or as good, as his brother, let alone a superstar.
Toronto Sun
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He will also be braced for further defections by MPs fearful of losing their seats if they stick with the Tories.
Times, Sunday Times
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The defections are adding to a problem American b-schools have faced for the better part of the past de cade: a shortage of business Ph.D. s to teach the 100,000-plus students who enroll in graduate-level business programs each year.
Foreign Schools Target U.S. Professors
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One defection from the government dissolved Temaru's majority and the censure motions passed by a single vote.
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And, anticipating the defection of the supposed hero to the dark side, there is a preponderance of broodily low-key numbers.
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“I am sensible,” William Fairfax told him in May, “such a medley of undisciplined militia must create your various troubles,” but, like Caesar, Washington should expect to suffer “fatigues, murmuring, mutinies, and defections.”
George Washington’s First War
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The amnesty was offered after Ieng Sary led a mass defection of thousands of Khmer Rouge forces to the government.
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The Act restricts the size of the council of ministers, extends the ban on defections to party splits and disqualifies a defector from holding a public office for the remainder of the legislative term.
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Yet so inconsistent is human nature, so given to forms which it calls creeds, that when I afterwards put on the surplice and read prayers to my adopted people, he counted it as great a defection as taking to saddle and spur.
Lazarre
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Our 2006 Faith Matters survey, however, shows that the defection rate among “Anglo” Catholics is twice as high as among Latino Catholics, so in that way Figure 5.2 exaggerates the decline in Catholic fealty in the recent decades.17
American Grace
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Both intermarriage and defection from family religious tradition are lower among ethnic minorities, as well as among the most devoutly religious families.
American Grace
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Moreover, her defection from the Democrats occurred soon after the failure of the coalition proposal.
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The unilateral defection of some localities altered the incentives of other localities.
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This hazardous journey was hardly a defection.
Times, Sunday Times
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To complete a second mill, growers were charged higher fees, resulting in the defection of many Depression-weary members.
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America saw a hint of this recently with Senator Liberman's defection from the Democratic party.
Transparency
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They pointed to an upsurge in antigovernment guerrilla activity inside Iran, including a bomb in Zahedan, the economic center of the province of Baluchistan, that killed 11 soldiers in the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on February 14; the mysterious death of the Iranian scientist Ardashir Hosseinpour, who worked on uranium enrichment at the Isfahan nuclear facility; and the defection of a high-ranking Iranian general named Ali Asgari, a former deputy minister of defense who was also the Revolutionary Guard officer responsible for training and supplying Hezbollah during its war against the Israelis in southern Lebanon in the 1980s.
Grand Illusions
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The dispute was seen as an important test case in the advertising industry over the issue of staff and client defections.
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At a personal level, the defection of Quentin Davies to Labour on Tuesday was a Conservative gain: Mr Davies has long been a troublesome and tiresome Tory, and his new Labour handlers will find him irksomely high maintenance.
Enter the clunking fist
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This is the largest North Korean mass defection since the end of the Korean War.
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The costs of defection, for its weaker participants, would assuredly be higher than are the costs of continued compliance.
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Following a number of defections from other parties, Thai Rak Thai commanded an absolute majority in parliament.
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You're kind of lapping the NVA and Vet Corp defection.
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ObjectiveTo observe the curative effect of marrow stem cell transplant on bone nonunion and bone defection.
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My father made me sing soprano solo in Handel's Messiah before the days of my defection to rock'n'roll.
SPLITTING
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This hazardous journey was hardly a defection.
Times, Sunday Times
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Suppliers with the highest proportion of complaints suffered the biggest number of defections.
Times, Sunday Times
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The hope was that a team facing mass defections would summon one big effort.
Times, Sunday Times
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There will be mass defections, mass surrenders, insurrection.
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Although they have been bolstered by defections and captured weapons dumps, their most successful tactics until now have been hit-and-run guerrilla attacks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Detailed analysis is done to the mech-wave caused by the mech-defection in rollers, gears and cots. Measures are given accordingly so as to reduce or remove it.
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Houghton, Lonsdale, and presumably also the Krogers would all be blown by the defection.
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Jihadist ideology has also been facing what may prove to be bigger threats than those posed by military setbacks or defections.
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As rebels challenging pro-Qaddafi forces struggled to regroup around the oil port of Brega, and the roar of allied warplanes was heard again over the capital, residents reacted in shock at the defection of Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa, a close ally of Colonel Qaddafi's since the early days of the revolution, who once earned the nickname "envoy of death" for his role in the assassinations of earlier Libyan defectors.
NYT > Home Page
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They also lost a handful of coordinators and assistants in the past five years, including two colossal defections.
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The hope was that a team facing mass defections would summon one big effort.
Times, Sunday Times
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It will be recalled that the Army, through unpredictable mischance, which is a euphemism for French defection, had lost all its equipment-tanks, guns, transport, and even rifles had gone.
The Navy
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But her last vestige of power had departed, her most loyal followers had been induced to abandon her cause after the defection of the kalif himself, and Sobeyah, who had been the most powerful of all the Moorish sultanas of Cordova, was now forced in humiliation to withdraw from active participation in worldly affairs and to spend the few remaining years of her life in strict seclusion in a lonely cloister.
Women of the Romance Countries
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Missed targets and the defection of important staff has seen the former darling of the high street drift steadily lower since mid-March.
Times, Sunday Times
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Antsy for success, too much in her head, she considers defection with Merce (Kat Primeau), the singer, sultry and cool, seemingly disinterested, not beyond considering a side deal (or at least a tryst) with a label guy.
James Scarborough: Hollywood Fringe: The Dumb Waiter, Vespertine Productions & Girl Band in the Men's Room, Dirty Blonde Productions
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Soccer Western agents rub hands over the prospect of an eastern defection Talking Point.
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My father made me sing soprano solo in Handel's Messiah before the days of my defection to rock'n'roll.
SPLITTING
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Soccer Western agents rub hands over the prospect of an eastern defection Talking Point.
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At this the disaffected cohorts proclaimed the name of their lawful sovereign; the Barbarians, astonished by the defection of their Roman allies, dispersed, according to their custom, in tumultuary flight; and Mascezel obtained the of an easy, and almost bloodless, victory.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Her mentor handles what he calls her defection very poorly and they have not spoken to one another in six months.
Homicide in Hardcover-Kate Carlisle « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
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But finding little encouragement this way for any who could not in conscience join with prelacy, or the prevailing defections of those called the indulged, he took a resolution, and went over among others to Holland (shortly before or after Bothwel) for the further improvement of his studies, where he continued some short time, and then returned home to his native country.
Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies
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When such subjection is withheld, Christ's servants, if they would be faithful to the exalted Saviour, cannot do otherwise than refuse to incorporate with the national society, and to homologate the acts of its rulers; and from Churches that do not testify against national defection, they are constrained to maintain distinct separation.
The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony
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The defection was rapid and universal; his loyal slaves were sacrificed to the public fury; the troops deserted to the standard of Bahram; and the provinces again saluted the deliverer of his country.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Were Netanyahu, forced by strong U.S. pressure, to go along with a "dovish" initiative, he would almost certainly face right-wing defections from his coalition and even within his own Likud faction.
Natan Sachs: Life of an Israeli Government: Nasty, Brutish and Short
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Adding to the complexity is a new alliance between China and Iran, a secret one between China and the Taliban, the attempted defection of a North Korean spy to the West and the usual moles on each side.
Robert Kaplan on ‘The Ghost War’ « Isegoria
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New defections, followed by bibulous celebrations in the Palais Royal, were reported daily.
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There is one fact which no one can misunderstand, the while -- that after the defections under which you have suffered, and under your known want of military stores, an incursive war from the mountains appears ferocious -- both revengeful and cruel -- when every one knows that time will render it unnecessary.
The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
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A defection from Labour ranks to the Scottish Socialist Party in Renfrewshire a month ago means that Labour can only win votes with the casting vote of the provost.
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The intendment, I say, of the apostle, in that exceptive plea he puts in, “Nevertheless,” is evidently to exempt some from the state of falling away, which might be argued against them from the defection of others.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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The company is expected to announce an alliance with that company in an attempt to stem the defection of customers to the cable companies.
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Goldman also accused the defectors of telling Goldman clients that the defections had "destabilized" the Atlanta office, which is in the same building as Credit Suisse's wealth managers.
Moneycontrol Top Headlines
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Bvt I thinke it very strange, that God should permit anie man-kynde (since they beare his owne Image) to fall in so grosse and filthie a defection.
Daemonologie.
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Over the years there were hundreds of defections to the West/defections from the East.
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The hope was that a team facing mass defections would summon one big effort.
Times, Sunday Times
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To think, Reuben, that I, wha hae been sae honoured and exalted in my youth, nay, when I was but a hafflins callant, and that hae borne testimony again the defections
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Their defection from the progressive coalition over the past two years is the main reason Democrats are facing a beat-down tomorrow.
Will Marshall: Revolt of the Radical Center, Act III
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Enterprises have to realize that 1 % defection of a product equals 100 % loss for the customer.
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Speculation about further defections continued to sweep the party last night.
Times, Sunday Times
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His defection to the other side was the ultimate betrayal.
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A single additional defection could mean losing a vote of no confidence, leading to early elections.
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In the personal application field, it can provide handy SDS (short data service), which can remedy the defection of traditional paging system and offer a chance to unite the paper industry.
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This is likely to prompt further defections over and above the 124 MPs who have already confirmed that they will resign.
Times, Sunday Times
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When, for example, Karl and I made the simulation more realistic and allowed for mutations, or mistakes in an evolving population of players, then we saw cooperation and defection wax and wane over time, as those with a good reputation are actually undermined by indiscriminate altruists who help anyone, no matter how well or badly the latter have behaved in the past.
SuperCooperators
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Those who have observed the wider evangelical scene over the past two decades will hardly need to be told that a massive defection from Christian orthodoxy has been taking place.
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Hillsden appeared relaxed and in good health, and gave the reasons for his defection without faltering.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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His defection to the other side was the ultimate betrayal.
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Beverly Si lls, for instance, made the cover of Time in 1971, and Mikhail Baryshnikov was a full-fledged media idol within a few months of his 1974 defection from the Soviet Union.
Heard of Any Great Playwrights Lately?
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Speculation about further defections continued to sweep the party last night.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most political defections have a story behind them, one of disappointed hopes or betrayal.
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His defection aggrieved her so bitterly, that the fiercest of her wrath turned upon him; and after a wrangle wherein all the parties concerned had made liberal use of those "aculeate and proper" words against which the wary Bacon warns his quarrelling readers, she flounced away into the darkness of the small hours of the stormy December morning, loudly avowing her determination never to see a sight of the ugly, dirty, mane-spirited poltroon, or open her lips to him as long as she had an eye or a tongue in her head.
Strangers at Lisconnel
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My father made me sing soprano solo in Handel's Messiah before the days of my defection to rock'n'roll.
SPLITTING
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Suppliers with the highest proportion of complaints suffered the biggest number of defections.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the end, those cases produced unprecedented defections, resulting in an increasing flow of intelligence and multiagency investigations that culminated in historic convictions from Los Angeles to Kansas City and from Cleveland to New York City.
Kill the Irishman
