Sentence examples for defect to join from inspiring English sources

The growing rebellion has seen a growing number of BNP organisers either leave the party or defect to join other rightwing groups.

Dissident factions of the LDP could defect to join the DPJ, thereby pushing the DPJ's tally of members of parliament above 50% and enabling it to form a government.

In recent months, many militiamen who had been fighting for the government have defected to join the insurgency.

The Senate was initially split 32 to 30 after two Democrats defected to join forces with 30 Republicans and passed a vote to oust Democrats from power.

But dozens of them defected to join the Greens' campaign, meaning Juncker's activities are likely to be much more closely examined.

Dr. Karadzic is widely believed to have been behind the killing, since the influential deputy had defected to join Biljana Plavsic, then president of the Bosnian Serb republic.

Months later, Nicholas defected to join his wife, who was being deported to Bergen-Belsen in Germany, but they never met up.

Vianney Harakandi in the Virunga park tourism office in Goma confirmed that a handful of rangers had defected to join M23.

The brigade leaders have continued to view the military and police officers with hostility even after many of the eastern divisions defected to join the rebellion two years ago.

The pro-Zhou records say that, after the Shang vanguard defected to join the Zhou, the entire army collapsed, and Wuwang entered the capital without resistance.

The protesters had now acquired heavier weapons from looted military barracks in Bayda and other eastern towns, and some of Qaddafi's soldiers had defected to join them.