defection

• “Her mentor handles what he calls her defection very poorly and they have not spoken to one another in six months.”

  Homicide in Hardcover-Kate Carlisle « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews

• “Their defection from the progressive coalition over the past two years is the main reason Democrats are facing a beat-down tomorrow.”

  The Huffington Post: Will Marshall: Revolt of the Radical Center, Act III

• “Beverly Si lls, for instance, made the cover of Time in 1971, and Mikhail Baryshnikov was a full-fledged media idol within a few months of his 1974 defection from the Soviet Union.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Heard of Any Great Playwrights Lately?

• “America saw a hint of this recently with Senator Liberman's defection from the Democratic party.”

  8 posts from June 2009

• “The process of defection from the Tindouf camps and rallying to Morocco started in practical terms at the end of the fighting, hundreds of sahraoui refugees have decided to leave Tindouf and to return to Morocco, among them political and military leaders, head of tribes, and hundreds of Polisario army officers of all levels.”

  Global Voices in English » Western Sahara: Landmine Injures Five During Peaceful Protest

• “And a Quinnipiac poll released late last month indicated that Specter, who's received the public backing of President Obama and party leaders since his defection from the Republican Party this spring, still holds a greater than 2-to-1 advantage over Sestak, with a 55 percent to 23 percent advantage in a hypothetical Democratic primary matchup.”

  Sestak officially launches primary challenge

• “A Quinnipiac poll late last month indicated that Specter, who's received the public backing of President Obama and party leaders since his defection from the Republican Party this spring, had a 55 percent to 23 percent advantage in a hypothetical Democratic primary matchup – though his 20-point edge over prospective GOP challenger Pat Toomey had vanished.”

  Sestak expected to announce Specter challenge Tuesday

• “On the Hill Democratic senators voted to allow Senator Joseph I. Lieberman to keep his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee despite his public defection from the party and outspoken support for Republican presidential candidate John McCain.”

  The Early Word: How to Pick a Cabinet - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

• “Oh, another defection from the carnival Hillary camp .... can you spell incompetent. mrsingh”

  New Obama response spot on the gas tax

• “Burke's defection from the Whig campaign has generally been seen as apostasy, but O'Brien argues that Burke was consistent because of his Catholicism (or at least his Catholic sympathies).”

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