| Malema was defenestrated, but Vavi is still a loud voice within the alliance. |
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| The reaction to what was seen as Hodgson's rather skewed perspective contributed to the campaign to have the manager defenestrated. |
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| At almost a stroke RBS's top management has been defenestrated. |
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| For the first time since independence in 1960, Nigerians have defenestrated a sitting president. |
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| Two months on and following last week's disastrous meeting of eurogroup finance ministers in Riga, Varoufakis was defenestrated. |
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| The twists in the government's fortunes have prompted the media, yet again, to speculate on a comeback by Kevin Rudd, the former leader whom Ms Gillard defenestrated before the previous election. |
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| Yet even soaring rhetoric, imaginative policies and wild ovations are unlikely to be enough: Margaret Thatcher managed a barnstormer in 1990, and was defenestrated soon afterwards. |
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| Ed Miliband, its recently defenestrated leader, disowned the centrism of Tony Blair's New Labour, trying instead to win the general election from the left. |
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| No new British PM could allow themselves to be defenestrated on the world stage by a minority party. |
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| Danger still lurks, court cases being defenestrated notwithstanding. |
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