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Deserting

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Present participle of desert

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Over the past few months, a small but steady trickle of Boko Haram members have been deserting and turning themselves in to authorities in Cameroon, which is linked to Nigeria by a porous northern border.

By contrast, readers have been deserting the print version of the city's newspaper, The Oregonian.

Amid all that, voters are deserting the Conservatives and Labour, Britain's two main parties of the right and left since the 1920s, in droves.

Yet still people are demonstrating disdain for the political establishment by deserting the major parties".

"Mr Trimble must tell us how he is going to unify not only the [Ulster Unionist ] Councilbut the party and the country and beyond that the unionist voters who have been deserting our party in droves".

He has been roundly criticised for deserting his party.

Simply put, public opinion seems to be deserting opponents of gay marriage.

Many are deserting.

Even the notion that businesses are deserting California for cheaper states is doubtful: a recent study by PPIC concluded that only 1.6% of the jobs lost between 1992 and 2002 came about because businesses had fled.

Like Marks & Spencer, which discovered its clothes were out of fashion, the good causes were finding that their customers, mostly poorer people, were deserting them for chains of stores selling cut-price new clothing.

Adding to his woes, his once-loyal Western backers have recently been deserting him.

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