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The herd instinct played a large part in the defection of so many students to cyberbusinesses.

The 400 were killed in mass shootings late last week, refugees said, and were prompted in part by the defection of a local Taliban commander to the Northern Alliance.

In Scotland the disestablishment of the Episcopal church in 1690 resulted in the defection of the greater part of the clergy.

The rapid collapse of the Taliban in the last week was made possible in large part by the defections of dozens of Taliban commanders and thousands of their troops.

David Brooks put it succinctly in describing the defection of white ethnics from the Democratic Party.

They had endured harrowing rapids, smashed and battered boats, and the defection of part of the crew.

Nahal left Newsnight for Channel 4 News last September, following the defection of Crick and Jackie Long in 2011.

In Damascus, meanwhile, the FSA announced the defection of Muheddine Musalmani, President Assad's protocol chief.

Mr Obama worries about the defection of conservative Democrats in battleground states.

In 1579 the union was fatally weakened by the defection of the Roman Catholic Walloon provinces.

Equally dramatic was the defection of Ashikaga Takauji, who was in command of the main armies of the shogunate.