Sentence examples for desertions from inspiring English sources

These involve encouraging guerrilla desertions and targeting the leadership (partly with intelligence from the deserters).

He has long felt that his own party, Forza Italia, could face mass desertions if his government were seen to ignore the north, its fragile small firms or their bankers.His, and the League's, reluctance to take sides against Mr Fazio explains why the government appeared to prepare a bill to get rid of the governor, then approved one that didn't.

Perhaps because of their huge market clout in America they do not have to be as worried about mass desertions as web firms.The internet companies involved in the new coalition want to see governments' ability to gather customer information limited and more oversight of spooks' demands for data.

State media insisted it had been a suicide-bombing, implying that it was the work of a jihadist fanatic.The whiff of high-level treachery fuelled rumours of a surge of desertions by Sunni Muslims, who make up three-quarters of Syria's increasingly fractured sectarian mosaic.

It would increase the chances of a coup and make desertions easier.

There have been reports of desertions and of troops refusing to be sent to Sierra Leone.

Russia's threats to prosecute Soviet-era desertions are among the odder skirmishes in Moscow's diplomatic war with the Baltic states it once ruled.Lithuania dates its escape from foreign rule to March 11th , 1990 when it declared its independence from the Soviet Union.

TheYugoslav military machine remains largely intact, despite the bombing and reports of desertions.

Although much diminished by defeats and desertions, it retains perhaps 7,000 active fighters in the far-flung mountains and jungles of the country.As if to show that it is still in business, the FARC quickly announced replacements for Jojoy as military commander and head of the Eastern Block.

Last year the defence ministry adopted a new policy that measures the army's success by the number of guerrilla captures or desertions, rather than the body count.

Occasional desertions and the mysterious sacking of Ali Habib, the defence minister, suggest some unease over the crackdown.