The phrase "allowed to defect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing permission or the right to leave a group, organization, or allegiance, often in political or military contexts.
Example: "The soldiers were finally allowed to defect to the opposing side after years of conflict."
Alternatives: "permitted to leave" or "granted the right to abandon".
The Washington Nationals allowed Harper to defect to Philadelphia.
The high spatial resolution allowed to highlight local defects, as those produced by undesired variations in the pile cross-section area that can lead to erroneous data analysis if not fully understood.
Because the supernatural (magical) power of the chief is identical with his own life force, the chief (or king) of such a society is not allowed to have any physical defects.
The abolishment of the CSL-dependent signal in these cells did not lead to any defect when allowed to compete with normal hematopoietic stem cells in vivo.
The dilatometry measurements confirmed an important reduction of the thermal dilatation coefficient, while Raman spectroscopy allowed to report an increase of defects.
The comparison of the transmittance data obtained after irradiation with different ion species in combination with the use of energy degraders of different thicknesses allowed to demonstrate that the optical defects created by swift heavy ions are essentially produced by elastic collisions and occur mainly at the end of the ion range region.
The defects were allowed to heal for 4 and 8 weeks.
Generally, the wounds were repaired with delayed closure, split-thickness skin grafts, or flap reconstructive surgery; the remaining small skin defects were allowed to close by secondary intention.
They created full thickness osteochondral defects of 6 mm in diameter and depth in the medial femoral condyle of adult goats and the untreated defects were allowed to heal spontaneously.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan was another of the star performers and, not for the first time, it felt faintly ludicrous that Chelsea had allowed Nemanja Matic to defect to one of their title rivals.
