Sentence examples for delayed defection from inspiring English sources

We make the following observation: since full cooperation can risk-dominate immediate defection in the centipede game, stochastic evolutionary dynamics can favor both delayed defection and even full cooperation.

For example, you may decide that your brand identity needs to be modified if you are to retain customers or delay their defection.

A grandmaster of state capitalism, Silverstein has held on through the endless delays, defections and budget overruns, outplaying not just Libeskind but the Port Authority too, and leaving no one in doubt that the most public tragedy in New York's history took place on his private construction site.

But if this vote gets delayed for any reason after Alabama's newest, Democratic senator gets seated, Republicans can only afford one defection.

The defection this morning of Senator James M. Jeffords of Vermont from the Republican Party thus had the unpredicted result of helping Mr. Olson in his bitter confirmation battle, which Democrats on the Judiciary Committee had delayed and strenuously opposed.

His company's effort has recently been troubled by engineering delays and defections of potential customers, but if the machine ever is released to customers it may be an octagon about four feet tall and four feet across, and it will burn more than two hundred thousand watts.

Apple, besieged by engineering delays and the defection of top programmers, has yet to deliver a CHRP version of the Mac OS.

In a separate attempt to stop further defections, the Guardian understands that Labour could delay the start of re-election battles.

Ostensibly the delay would prevent candidates from manipulating an election by orchestrating a mass defection from party A to party B. In reality, the delay protects incumbents and party favorites from attractive insurgents.

[The New York Times] Another defection?

This defection is even worse.