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    defection


    1. She could see him now … jerkily, returning to his seat at the table … and then, he’d just sort of imploded mentally, as though Andy’s defection was the terminal straw in the train of disasters which comprised this ill-fated project


    2. For all practical purposes, there was nothing they could do about his defection


    3. defection to their base, the only one that


    4. Angel told me that there were many pressing security problems and the possible defection of an Anglo historian might not be classified as high priority, but he would send in the report and Kurt’s description to Security Headquarters


    5. Martin knew Jorge would help his star pupil locate Maria because he would realize the threat the defection of Kurt Sloan might mean to the Republic and to his friend, the President


    6. Martin explained the situation and how potentially dangerous the defection of Sloan with data concerning the security of the Aquifer System may be to Alleghenia and to the Atlantica


    7. Their successes were seen in the arrest of a Navy Commodore as a Soviet GRU spy in 1983 but that only happened because of a defection of a Soviet officer to the West


    8. SOLDIER defection had he thought of such an occurrence


    9. up among them, notwithstanding this general defection and apostasy


    10. “Perhaps the most surprising development we have to report is the defection of several hundred Sylvan and nineteen dragons

    11. it is little likely that a person capable of such defection would be received as a pupil at all


    12. For Raymond, the defection merely confirmed a growing sus-


    13. Whatever the reason for the Asian Christians’ defection from Paul and Christ, the amazing


    14. In an ironic twist, that mass defection in favor of Jerusalem then soured up the Islamic authorities’ relations with Nancy, who had up to now enjoyed a fairly amiable relationship with them save for issues about women


    15. The defection is continually going on: it is an old disease, and must not surprise us


    16. Let him set his feet down firmly in "the old paths," and remember that the defection he sees is only an old complaint in an aggravated form


    17. testimony in times of defection


    18. Although working at the store had certainly never been my raison d’être, the defection still bothered me


    19. cultivated in defection & strongly in ulterior motive housed


    20. dialogue that led to their defection into the New Realm; and so it was that they entered into

    21. There is still animosity among Democrats about the defection, and Nixon feels that they will block Connally’s congressional confirmation


    22. The French had accounted for this unexpected defection on the part of their ally in various ways


    23. The recent defection of the tribe had, as they well knew themselves, subjected the Delawares to much reproach among their French allies; and they were now made to feel that their future actions were to be regarded with jealousy and distrust


    24. And if we’re wrong in hoping he might be considering some sort of defection, we could find him screaming for the guards the instant he realizes he’s face-to-face with a seijin


    25. Tony and Alex stood about the circle, jockeying for a position near Scarlett should any of chagrin at the defection of the swarthy Fontaine boys, but they were annoyed at the way the others arise from their places


    26. The defection of her beaux was almost insulting


    27. Her sweet sympathy and her bright-eyed interest in every word he uttered were balm upon the Suellen’s conduct and his vanity, the shy, touchy vanity of a middle-aged bachelor who wound left by Suellen’s supposed defection


    28. ’ A fat major skirted a bush, puffing and falling out of step; a soldier who had fallen behind, his face showing alarm at his defection, ran at a trot, panting to catch up with his company


    29. Had their defection from the traditions of the Tharks been discovered both would have paid the penalty in the great arena before Tal Hajus and the assembled hordes


    30. "It was at this point, gentlemen, that enraged by the defection of seven of his former associates, and stung by the mocking voice that had last hailed him, and maddened by his long entombment in a place as black as the bowels of despair; it was then that Steelkilt proposed to the two Canallers, thus far apparently of one mind with him, to burst out of their hole at the next summoning of the garrison; and armed with their keen mincing knives (long, crescentic, heavy implements with a handle at each end) run amuck from the bowsprit to the taffrail; and if by any devilishness of desperation possible, seize the ship

    31. ” A fat major skirted a bush, puffing and falling out of step; a soldier who had fallen behind, his face showing alarm at his defection, ran at a trot, panting to catch up with his company


    32. Sixty-one members have already voted against a resolution to approve of what he has done; and I have no doubt the rest of the Democratic party will follow the example as soon as they recover from the astonishment into which his apparent defection has thrown them


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    Synonyms for "defection"

    abandonment defection desertion apostasy renunciation

    "defection" definitions

    withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility


    the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes)