Sentence examples for small defection from inspiring English sources

The performers continued to protest and helped lead a small defection of Facebook users to Ello, a new social-media site without a real-name policy.

As the brutality of the crackdown increased, there were reports of some small-scale defections within the Syrian army.

The results demonstrate that ART always achieves smaller customer defection probability and average waiting time than PCS-V in the case of ERMT.

(Some 80% of family's votes are opposed to his offer, but this represents only 52% of the total votes, so a small number of defections could tip the balance).Nor, more fundamentally, is the outlook for newspapers particularly good.

Add growing discontent with the government and further defections to small parties, and it is easy to see that the two biggest parties may be heading for yet another drubbing.

Their coalition has only a small edge in Parliament, and defections could cause more political disorder.

While the defections are so small as to constitute little threat, activists' interviews with them suggest that morale is low, food is scarce and officers are stressed.

The remaining tax subsidy is substantial and many companies and their workers value the retiree drug benefit, so defections may be small.

To scrape together a win for Mr Dimas, the government needs not just the independents (nine have vowed not to back Mr Samaras) but defections from two small parties, the moderate Democratic Left and the right-wing Independent Greeks.

Recent years have seen a small but steady stream of defections from the top ranks of the company's talent, including (to the Mikhailovsky) and Olga Smirnova and Evgenia Obraztsova (to the Bolshoi).

But Andersen appears to believe it might be able to survive the mass defection as a smaller audit-only specialist under the plan devised by the former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Paul Volcker.