Sentence examples for decided to defect from inspiring English sources

He was Bashar's friend and then he decided to defect.

Some of the players, Puskas among them, decided to defect.

They told the police they were on patrol when they decided to defect.

Soon after, one Democratic incumbent in the House decided to defect.

At 17, after a 10-day American tour performing as a pianist, she decided to defect.

He decided to defect after his military unit was ordered to fire on protesters in Damascus.

And why did he decide to defect?

The Tlass family friend also described the events that led General Manaf Tlass, formerly a close friend of the Assad dynasty, to decide to defect.

In the 1984 film Moscow on the Hudson, Robin Williams plays a Russian musician who impulsively decides to defect during a tour in New York City.

Few are inclined to believe him, however, until a visiting Soviet ballet dancer, Rudolph Petrov Ryan Phillippee), whom Allen is instructing in a driver's ed class, impulsively decides to defect and Allen is handed the credit.

If both companies decide to defect, i.e. lower prices, a price war will ensue, in which case neither company will profit, since it will retain its market share and experience lower revenues at the same time.