Sentence examples for for a defection from inspiring English sources

Opposition groups have said this suggests that the government discovered plans for a defection and stopped it, another claim impossible to verify.

Who knows what a lone representative, or a few united by a favored cause, might extract from a presidential candidate in return for a defection from party ranks?

Still, Drysdale worked his colt today, though he conceded time was running out for a defection or three before Wednesday's draw.

(Real is so deep that Mourinho shrugged off the legal skirmishes over Kaká's threat to return to Milan. He said he just wanted Kaká to be happy. But of course, he added, somebody would have to pay for a defection).

Outside, where a winding line of students and other voters hoped to get in, a smattering of dissent persisted, with occasional pleas for a defection to third-party candidates.

The New York Times reports that the Clinton camp, during Hillary Clinton's campaign for the Democratic nomination, regarded Ms Rice's support for Mr Obama as a defection.

"I don't consider such a defection a strike for the regime," said Samir Nachar, a member of the opposition Syrian National Council.

When Cameron and George Osborne seized control of the leadership in 2005 they ached above all for a high profile defection from the Liberal Democrats or Labour's Blairite wing, aware of the potent symbolism.

I look at this race and I see five or six horses I know we can't beat right now, so what are we running for?" Harlan Traveler's defection opened a slot for Curule, a second runner for the Godolphin stable from the Middle East, who will join China Visit among the 20 starters.

Wang was later jailed for 15 years for defection, bribe-taking, abuse of power and "bending the law for selfish ends" by initially covering up Gu's crime.

Wang was jailed for 15 years for defection, accepting bribes, abusing power and initially covering up Heywood's murder.