Sentence examples for mass desertion from inspiring English sources

But on Dec. 6, Mr. Mohammad's fear of mass desertion came true.

Later, I discovered the cause of the mass desertion: my event had been perceived as being "women only".

Mass desertion, of the sort that led to the fall of Mosul, is a political question, not a matter of learning how to drill.

It has been a rough 18 months, including a military coup and bloody unrest in Guinea, one of the company's two areas of operations – and a mass desertion of shareholders as a result.

They believe it will prevent a mass desertion of Page 3-loving readers, however unlikely that is, and know it helps to spike the guns of the rival Daily Star.

Making television series available on streaming services like Netflix or Hulu is a little like easing travel restrictions between East and West Germany at the end of the cold war: it can lead to mass desertion.

Mass desertions by Soviet-allied Afghan Army units were not uncommon during the anti-Communist jihad.

It also notes that Iraqi security forces are refusing less often than in the past to take orders from the central government and that there has been a drop-off in mass desertions.

Membership rose to 407,000 when Tony Blair became prime minister in 1997 but soon after went into decline, as disillusionment set in among leftwingers, turning into mass desertions over Iraq.

The country's caretaker government has been confronted with nearly daily protests by a variety of groups, the police force has been badly weakened by mass desertions and the firing of top officials, and provincial government offices remain dysfunctional.

Last week, it proved necessary for the Bush Administration to claim that an obvious failure — Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki's ill-prepared raid on rival Shiite gangs in Basra, which was aborted after mass desertions within Maliki's own ranks — was actually a success in disguise, because it demonstrated the Iraqi government's independence of mind.