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Example sentences for: defection

How can you use “defection” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Republican congressional leaders reportedly hit the roof over the governors' defection and, under that pressure, they fudged their stand somewhat.
The New York Times ' top non-local story is Act II of its lead yesterday about an ultra-religious party's possible defection from Israel's coalition government.
The en masse defection of the major tobacco manufacturers from Congress' efforts at a settlement leads everywhere.
Scholars agree the defection is likely embarrassing to the Chinese government, but the Chinese government's spin is that "it was due to a split in his movement rather than disillusionment with life in China."
Second, a famous example of PD comes from the trench-warfare of World War I [ 1 ] , in which opposing lines of troops preferred to cooperate in maintaining a local peace rather than risk death in mutual defection (and reversion to reciprocated attacks).