Sentence examples for Time defection from inspiring English sources

To most Soviet dancers of the time, defection was not a conceivable choice.

Pressing the left button (cooperation) with the respective partner pressing the right button at the same time (defection), the further would return with 10 points for this game, while the latter receives 20 points (CD) and vice versa (DC).

Over time, defections, desertions, and ideological disputes caused rebel groups to break into smaller armed bands.

He retired just as the C.I.A. was coming to grips with the most serious betrayal by one of its own officers up to that time, the defection of Edward Lee Howard, a C.I.A. case officer who had been fired just before his scheduled assignment to Moscow.

Although this might sound like an ego taking too long to repair itself, it is worth recalling that, at the time, his defection to Sky was considered so seismic that it was reported immediately after the latest dispatch from Kosovo on the main BBC news bulletin.

Prentice said at the time that his defection was brought about by "a growing emphasis on class war and Marxist dogma" in the Labour party.

At the same time, threats of defection from the government camp and harangues from the opposition, accusing Mrs Merkel of mishandling the whole crisis, make every vote a melodrama.

At the time of his defection to Ukip Farage described Stevens as a "giant of Fleet Street and an immensely respected member of the House of Lords and a huge asset to Ukip".

It is unclear what he has been doing in Russia between the time of his defection and his media debut on Thursday, when he gave an interview to the radio station Echo Moskvy.

VLADIMIR FELTSMAN From the time of his defection from the Soviet Union, in 1987, this pianist has made clear that he does want to be judged by the typical bravura standards of the Russian school of pianism (if there is such a thing).

At that time, the Spivack defection was perhaps the biggest ever from a major Manhattan law firm, and it helped usher in an era in which much of New York's legal community turned its back on many traditional ways of doing business.