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Defect
noun
A fault or malfunction.
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Exact(60)
There are only a handful of exemptions to the ban on abortion – to save the mother's life, if the pregnancy was a result of rape, or, in a recent controversial addition, if the foetus has anencephaly, a rare birth defect in which the brain and skull do not develop.
Network Rail said: "We apologise to passengers whose journeys have been delayed this morning as a result of a track circuit defect just outside the Haywards Heath area.
This week, 50 government MPs went on a trip to Taiwan due to last more than a week, making it all the more difficult for Anwar to lobby tempt them to defect.
But Routh still knew right from wrong, Starnes added, and his illness did not rise to the level of "severe mental disease or defect" at the time of the crime – the legal definition to meet the insanity standard in Texas.
I sold them to buy a gun – not to aim at the army soldiers, who were my colleagues and most likely did not have the chance to defect, but to fire against barbaric shabiha [militia], who were slaying people and with burning and smashing civilian houses.
A Guardian straw poll on York Road, where at least four of the contenders have rented empty shops for the campaign, suggests that enough Labour voters plan to defect or stay at home to dispel any complacency.
But as we now know, it wasn't enough to appease Reckless, who went on to become the second Conservative MP to defect to Nigel Farage's Ukip.
The dynamics differ in each of the two cases – but in both, the pressure is designed to give voters permission to defect on election day.
Dillu Miah, a Muslim taxi driver, will defect from Labour to Mr Bloom because of Iraq.
Saleh again urged Turkey to help set up buffer zones inside Syria, which he claimed would encourage thousands more troops to defect.
I'm absolutely 100% convinced no one else will defect".
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