Sentence examples for that desertion from inspiring English sources

Consistent with this suggestion is that desertion is beneficial for the deserting individual, although costly to its mate [ 30].

So little of the money reaches front lines that desertion is common.

It turns out that desertion during incubation is likely to result in the demise of the unhatched offspring.

But it offers more substance and hope than a dream that desertion and some tactical voting can bring coherent, effective, progressive change.

She did not tell him that her husband had strayed, that she had done everything to keep him, up to and including porn videos in the bedroom, and that, when she finally left, the judge held that desertion against her and awarded him the house.

Grant takes Locke to be claiming not only that desertion laws are legitimate in the sense that they can be blamelessly enforced (something Hobbes would grant) but that they also imply a moral obligation on the part of the soldier to give up his life for the common good (something Hobbes would deny).

While Mr. Bremer argued that desertions meant that the Iraqi Army had disbanded, General McKiernan believed it could be re-established by recalling the soldiers as well as some generals and senior officers who commanded them.

Even Mr. Humala's movement, which is expected to become the largest bloc in Congress once votes are tabulated from the April 9 election, is such a loose assortment of politicians that desertions are considered inevitable.

Compared to the Gulf war, the coalition has taken few prisoners, though it claims that desertions are making up some of the difference.At the same time, the welcome extended by the civilian population in Shia-dominated southern Iraq, which has little reason to love Mr Hussein, has been disappointingly cool.

Officers said the crackdown reflected an awareness by top Army and Defense Department officials that desertions, which occurred among more than 1percentt of the active-duty force in 2000 for the first time since the post-Vietnam era, were in a sustained upswing again after ebbing in 2003, the first year of the Iraq war.

The latter result raises the intriguing possibility that desertions may not be independent by males and females [ 12].