Sentence examples for first defection from inspiring English sources

This was the first defection from the Jets' coaching staff, a team that went to the playoffs in Herman Edwards's first season as coach.

The first defection was the middle sister, Parvati, "jumping the marriage queue" while at Mount Holyoke when she chose a husband on her own, a young Indian M.B.A. from Tufts.

Syria's government was jolted Thursday by the first defection from its elite air force in the 16-month-old uprising, when a colonel commandeered a Soviet-era MIG warplane and flew to neighboring Jordan, where he sought and received political asylum.

Cuba's Aroldis Chapman declined to reveal what Fidel Castro told him after being summoned after his first defection attempt in 2008, and on a much more important topic, also prefered not to provide the exact number of Cuban pastries he put down in Philadelphia after their Spanish language broadcaster brought him two cases of 50, possibly leading to his rare hiccup on the mound a May afternoon.

The incident was the first defection through the Joint Security Area — the section of the demilitarized zone where the rival armies stand face-to-face – in a decade.

While there has been grumbling in some Republican circles that a recall movement should be mounted against the combative Filner, particularly due to his feud with the Republican city attorney, Jan Goldsmith, the resignation demands signal the first defection from his supporters.

Just weeks after the F.B.I. won its first defections from within the seemingly impenetrable Bonanno crime family, federal prosecutors yesterday unsealed a racketeering and murder indictment against the elusive man they say is the family's boss.

Rob Hannaford and Adrian Hannaford are thought to be the first defections in Devon since the Lib Dems teamed up with the Tories after the general election.

Tory high command is worried that a third defection is to come.

Henri E. Cauvin (NYT) THE AMERICAS CANADA: NEW DEFECTION TO LIBERALS -- The governing Liberal Party has won its fourth defection this month, Andre Harvey, a former Conservative from Quebec, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

TRIPOLI, Libya — Anxiety seized the Qaddafi government on Thursday over the second defection in two days of a senior official close to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, stirring talk of others to follow and a crackdown to stop them.