| Officers and men from units which had been forced to abandon their positions were shot for desertion. |
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| Any desertion on Edith's part is terminated by Robert agreeing to the separation. |
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| We confined our trapping to the late stages of incubation to minimize nest desertion due to trapping procedures. |
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| Paradoxically, the distrust is further fuelled by the desertion of an assistant counsel on the team last month. |
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| His guilt about his desertion of the weaker boy was to provide the story of his television play Old Flames. |
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| The desertion of the small family farm constitutes the largest population movement in American history. |
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| Novels of alienation and misery are common currency, tales of abuse, violence and desertion are run-of-the-mill stuff for British fiction. |
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| The wife may ask for divorce based on impotence, non-support, and desertion or lengthy absence. |
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| High densities of argasid ticks have been linked to egg and seabird nestlings desertion and lower survival of Cattle Egrets. |
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| She plans to crash the party and reveal that she is Godfrey's wife so that she can avenge Godfrey's desertion. |
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| Their suspicions focussed particularly on what Cornwallis and his kind characterized as sloth and desertion. |
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| This has created a crisis in the armed forces with high desertion rates, poor morale and a sharp drop in military recruitment. |
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| The Gallicans in France and the Protestants abroad pointed to this decision of the king as a desertion of his principles. |
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| Congress first offered service pensions to officers in 1781, in order to prevent mass desertion. |
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| When desertion was only suspected after two checks, further checks were conducted until the status of the nest became clear. |
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| Divorce can be obtained on the bases of adultery, intolerable behavior, desertion, and de facto separation. |
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| The desertion hit us hard, largely because we already knew how difficult the situation was in Toronto's two downtown Chinatowns before SARS hit. |
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| The tedium of dredging and sounding very likely accounted for the high attrition of ship's personnel by desertion. |
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| Anyone seeking to leave the movement was declared an enemy of God and threatened with death for apostasy and desertion. |
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| But the legal proceedings could drag on for years, and since desertion is not an extraditable offense, his clients are safe for some time. |
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| Over 300, he said, some for desertion, some for cowardice, and two for falling asleep at their posts. |
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| Wolfgang Koch sings with well-focussed richness as Peter, the son driven to an excess of hammy acting by Eva's desertion. |
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| Girls' average age of entry was fifteen, and the overwhelming majority were incarcerated for incorrigibility, immorality, truancy, desertion, and petty theft. |
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| Society in general, and the general decline in the nation's moral responsibilities, is also named as the reason for dwindling congregations and religious desertion. |
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| It seeks pardons only for those killed for desertion and cowardice. |
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| It turns out that desertion during incubation is likely to result in the demise of the unhatched offspring. |
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| By 1891 the desertion rate had fallen to a more respectable 6.2 percent. |
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| On or about date of desertion, in name of place, the said name of deserter deserted the vessel, thereby ceasing to be a temporary resident. |
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| All the little villages and hamlets in the neighborhood of Amiens presented the same spectacle of destruction and desertion. |
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| A court hearing has been set for 21 January where he will face charges of insubordination and desertion. |
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| In most cases, the luckless children had lost one or both parents to death, desertion or imprisonment. |
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| In actual practice, a certain amount of clemency was shown, depending on the type of desertion. |
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| Andhra Pradesh provided more Congress MPs in 2009 than any other state, but now a local leader's desertion has shattered the party there. |
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| But the desertion of key allies, a sharply deteriorating economy and a collapse of confidence in Italy's sovereign bonds brought him low. |
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| He served another two years in his new unit before running away again, but was caught and arrested for desertion. |
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| The Burmese army continues to recruit child soldiers, some as young as 10 years old, and to arrest children for desertion. |
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| There have always been single parents because of death, divorce, and desertion, but these were once the exceptions. |
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| As previously announced, a harvest of the completeness of combs is a stress causing systematically the desertion. |
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| Adultery, bigamy, and desertion were acceptable legal grounds. |
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| Most were suspected of draft evasion, desertion, or sabotage. |
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| Dissent within the ranks was substantial, officers had lost control, desertion had increased, and soldiers wanted to go home regardless of orders. |
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| A general read aloud the order that Pvt. Eddie Slovik was to be executed for the crime of desertion. |
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| At CPAC, it was hard to find any declarations of defection or desertion should Romney win selection as GOP general-in-chief. |
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| I turn now to the matter of fines for such things as wilful desertion, breaking lease, breaking the agreement, or failing to attend the tribunal or mediation. |
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| The little guy did have a crucial part in the only goal of the half, but a number of the home defenders should have been cashiered for desertion for their part in it. |
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| Does the past success of the brood influence the timing of mate desertion? |
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| In 1921 King George V granted him a pardon on the desertion charge. |
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| He just finished serving 30 days in jail for his 1965 desertion. |
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| Before he left, he asked for a note so that he would not be charged with desertion. |
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| He was convicted for desertion and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. |
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| For example, in Burma, the military and non-State armed groups continue to recruit and use children as soldiers, some as young as 10-years old, and arrest children for desertion. |
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| Insurgent violence deliberately targeting Afghan police has resulted in high rates of death, injury and desertion, which degrade police effectiveness and limit our ability to track trained police officers. |
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| A woman hitchhiking with two companions turns out to be on her way to appeal to the LTTE to release her 17-year-old husband, who was locked up for desertion. |
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| Apart from the ever present concern that a trained soldier might run off to join the Taliban, desertion and difficult recruitment are reoccurring problems. |
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| Not until the 1830s did they find a connection between the low desertion rate among married soldiers and the stabilizing influence of their wives. |
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| However, there was a sudden and complete desertion of adherents after his sermon in the synagogue, wherein he reiterated the spiritual realities of the kingdom and deliberately turned back the tide of popular enthusiasm. |
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| The recent offensive by Prime Minister Malaki against the Mahdi Army in Basra was hampered by the desertion of over one thousand Iraqi government troops. |
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| This desertion proved the final shock and he finally collapsed into a fever, only coming to for a few moments during which he gave confession. |
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| Under the reformed Kirk, divorce was allowed on grounds of adultery, or of desertion. |
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| But Edward has overstayed his leave and is accused of desertion and treason, then arrested. |
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| It lost most of its aircraft, and command and control capability, to precise Coalition strikes and Iraqi troop desertion to Iran. |
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| While sometimes paid, conscripts are not free to decline enlistment and draft dodging or desertion are often met with severe punishment. |
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| Ships losses should not be confused with crew losses from disease, deprivation, accident, combat and desertion. |
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| This proved a costly fiasco as Spinola's besieging army of 18,000 melted away through disease and desertion. |
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| This was done in order to minimize desertion and assure the loyalty of the troops while he was himself busy with the destruction of Rome. |
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| Would not her refusal to do so be craven flight from the new reality which faces her, a kind of desertion or slackerdom? |
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| In addition, the Code grants women the right to file for a divorce on other grounds such as a husband's defects, failure to provide adequate support, absence or desertion. |
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| We know he is imprisoned in Kigali on the charge of desertion. |
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| Like other Iraqi army units, it suffered from a high rate of desertion. |
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| His desertion barely warranted a comment, but he was not hailed as a hero. |
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| International conflict, civil war, desertion of villages, and mass exodus of the population has torn apart the socio-economic fabric and the way of life for the people of Darfur, Sudan. |
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| In the meantime, her desertion prompted Milton to publish a series of pamphlets over the next three years arguing for the legality and morality of divorce. |
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| His desertion was condemned as an unsoldierly act of cowardice. |
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| Scotland was one of the first countries to allow desertion as legal grounds for divorce and, unlike England, divorce cases were initiated relatively far down the social scale. |
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| Mary and Bothwell confronted the lords at Carberry Hill on 15 June, but there was no battle as Mary's forces dwindled away through desertion during negotiations. |
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| This and other such incidents spurred a mass desertion as more and more officers defected to other countries, leaving a dearth of experienced leadership within the army. |
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| In 1938 she sued for divorce on the grounds of his desertion. |
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| Legions were often significantly understrength from recruitment failures or following periods of active service due to accidents, battle casualties, disease and desertion. |
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| French forces began to arrive to support the Spaniards, but like their allies they began to suffer high levels of attrition through disease and desertion. |
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| After Essex's desertion of his command in Ireland in 1599, Elizabeth had him placed under house arrest and the following year deprived him of his monopolies. |
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