Sentence examples for desertion to from inspiring English sources

Tyler recognizes his own violent impulses, brought about partly by his father's desertion to become an itinerant jazz musician.

All 260 of them in the 400-cell prison have been sentenced by courts-martial for crimes ranging from desertion to murder.

But while it may offer a high-end viewing experience, the evidence that Blu-ray can counteract the desertion to downloads remains insufficient to calm the nerves of studio executives.

Breaking a silence of decades, Sergeant Jenkins's North Carolina drawl filled a military courtroom here as he pleaded guilty to charges of desertion to North Korea and of aiding the enemy.

Despite the warnings of Priam's daughter Cassandra, the Trojans were persuaded by Sinon, a Greek who feigned desertion, to take the horse inside the walls of Troy as an offering to Athena; the priest Laocoön, who tried to have the horse destroyed, was killed by sea-serpents.

I wound up there because I had worked as a legal stenographer while attending City College at night, and the island was the location of court-martial trials for offenses ranging from desertion to collaborating with the enemy (North Korea at that time).

Russian state media reported widespread desertions to the Crimean forces.

For instance, if a male's response to a female's desertion is to abandon the brood as well, then her best strategy may be to stay after all.When economists are faced with analysing this sort of decision, they reach for a branch of mathematics called game theory and so, now, do zoologists.

As well as death and injury, the Afghan police and army are losing thousands to desertion, at an attrition rate that requires them to sign up 50,000 new recruits every year to replace those lost.

Most of the rest are unmotivated, unreliable, ill-trained, ill-equipped, prone to desertion, even ready to switch sides.

In fact, there is no penalty for desertion, according to the Defense Ministry.