What is "defecting"

Usage examples of "defecting".

If so, we'll have to warn her off if only to save the defecting officers.

Let's hold this story about the defecting boomer in abeyance for the moment, shall we?

By that time we'll have all the information we want, and we can always produce the defecting officers in a nice news conference.

Hussein Kamel decided Udayy was coming after him next and took the precipitous step of packing up his brother, Saddam Kamel (himself an important officer in Iraq's security services), their wives (both of them Saddam's daughters), and their children, and defecting to Jordan.

There were remarkably few cases of Iraqi Shi'ite soldiers refusing to fight or defecting to Iran because they sympathized with the Iranians.

Because once a pilot is in the air it is difficult to stop him from defecting with his $10 million to $20 million airplane, or bombing the presidential palace if that is his preference, the regime has always meticulously screened pilots for their loyalty.

The mere idea that Straha would consider the comfort of a Big Ugly was a telling measure of how far he had fallen since defecting from the conquest fleet.

The chieftain and the defecting Major tried to get things going again by personal example.

East German Security had thought of everything to comfort the defecting physicist.

She thinks I'm defecting, a traitor, and she's the angel who's going to show me the light.

He was coldly effusive at meeting the defecting Americans about whom the radio had been spouting.

If so, we’ll have to warn her off if only to save the defecting officers.

Let’s hold this story about the defecting boomer in abeyance for the moment, shall we?

By that time we’ll have all the information we want, and we can always produce the defecting officers in a nice news conference.