| Passed-over internal CEO candidates are well known for spitting the dummy and defecting to a competitor. |
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| He's serving a 30-day sentence for abandoning his unit in 1965 and defecting to North Korea. |
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| At any rate, there's not a lot I can do right now to change things aside from defecting to the government and sicking them on the reformists. |
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| At the same time several of his aides were quoted in the press as saying he was considering defecting. |
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| In 1989, Zuyev was granted asylum in the USA after defecting from the Soviet Union in a MiG 29 and landing in Turkey. |
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| We have to add the risk of fines or jail into our calculations, and this may tip the balance in favour of cooperating rather than defecting. |
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| He is disaffecting his far left, and they are defecting to his opponent again. |
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| He was accused of defecting from the Edwardsian camp and was even branded as a Pelagian by some opponents. |
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| What evidence was there to suggest that King suspected Gouzenko's motives for defecting? |
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| Managers for the candidates raced around the floor trying to pry delegates away from their opponents, and to keep those already on their side from defecting. |
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| That same poll showed one in four registered Republicans defecting to Davis. |
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| The Syrian Army corporal had entertained thoughts of defecting for a long time. |
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| Soldiers who contact the group about defecting are told to bring their army-issued weapons with them. |
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| On Wednesday, he lost a key vote in the House of Commons, thanks to defecting MPs from his own Labour Party. |
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| Sooty, who began life on the BBC before traitorously defecting to ITV, is also present, along with Muffin the Mule. |
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| It will also add another layer of doubt to the idea that defecting to Ukip could be a safe choice. |
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| The possibility of a defecting system should not however be a hypothesis of departure. |
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| Instability can threaten the plan's viability if defecting villages find alternative solutions too quickly. |
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| In addition, these insurance benefits for staff costs can prevent all of your best employees defecting to the competition. |
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| Also at the defecting roller the brackets add only a few millimeters more so that the total width there is 40 mm more than the belt width itself. |
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| The Social Text editors, thrilled to have a physicist defecting to their side, published the piece. |
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| This set of tools must nonetheless be supplemented with extensive positive security guarantees in order to reduce the disproportionate military advantage a state party might gain from defecting from the treaty. |
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| The war that ensued is not a consequence of some parties to that agreement defecting from it, but of the fact that it never was a comprehensive, inclusive agreement involving all the key stakeholders. |
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| A black Southern Democrat defecting to the GOP is pretty big news. |
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| Attalus was at that time corresponding with Demosthenes, regarding the possibility of defecting to Athens. |
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| In 1972, a defecting KGB officer reveals the existence of a shady Soviet plot involving sleeper agents posted around Britain. |
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| Although I served as an officer in the Syrian army after graduation, I could not restrain myself from taking part in protests in Damascus in March 2011, and soon after defecting to the Free Syrian Army. |
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| On 14 June 1913, St Helens Recs joined the Northern Union after defecting from rugby union and association football. |
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| With their retreat route cut off, the FAC kadogo began defecting in droves, many fleeing across the border into Zambia. |
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| They were welcomed with open arms by the Afghans, with thousands of militia members who had been serving in the armies of various warlords defecting with great enthusiasm to the Taliban. |
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| The back-rower has been one of the form forwards in the NRL over the past three seasons after defecting from Bradford Bulls. |
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| In 1972, a defecting KGB officer reveals the existence of a Soviet plot involving sleeper agents posted around Britain. |
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| Abdul Haq also gathered a limited number of defecting Pashtun Taliban. |
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| He began his career as a Whig, before defecting to a new Tory Ministry. |
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| In this case the profits made by a defecting spy, George Blake, for the publication of his book, were awarded to the British Government for breach of contract. |
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| Under West's leadership, the party recruited Enoch Powell, who became Ulster Unionist MP for South Down in October 1974 after defecting from the Conservatives. |
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