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If the cost to defecting becomes easier to bear, then more leaders will do it, which further reduces the stigma of defecting.
First thoughts of defecting: Ji traveled to China illegally in 2000 where he saw that "animals in China were fed better than North Koreans," and first thought of defecting.
As time went by, the settlers from Europe noticed something: No Indians were defecting to join colonial society, but many whites were defecting to live in the Native American one.
It turned out to be a defecting North Korean soldier.
Members of the military joined the cause, defecting and becoming rebels.
Those who consider defecting are different from their more committed counterparts.
There was no immediate comment from any of the defecting lawmakers.
Republicans and a few crossover Democrats are defecting to Donald Trump.
But she isn't alone in defecting on some of the regulatory votes.
Mr. Solomon, 37 at the time, surprised colleagues by defecting from Bear.
He had signed a six-year deal for $2100 million after defecting.
Ms. Park's conservative allies are defecting to save their own political careers.
Then, there is the question of where the defecting Republicans will go.
Top military brass, one of his key bastions of support, are defecting.
Party leaders and foot soldiers alike have been defecting to the ruling BJP.
And it's pretty clearly not white young people defecting to Johnson and Stein.
He says that's a reflection of how much more difficult defecting has become.
The opposition is encouraging its followers to pressure soldiers they know into defecting.
Yes, impeachment could theoretically proceed with mostly Democratic votes and some defecting Republicans.
The idea that doctors keep defecting to Pac North is actually pretty great.
It wasn't immediately clear his reasoning for defecting or how serious his injuries were.
North Korean soldiers have even shot at defecting colleagues, raising fears of a clash.
Thurmond the defecting Democrat was joined by younger Southern politicians nourished within the GOP.
He was a highly regarded international free agent after defecting from Cuba in February.
As the risks of defecting have risen, so have the fees charged by brokers.
To make matters worse, since defecting, new threats had emerged, including from MS-13.
The commander explained that South Korean troops assumed any aircraft flying north was defecting.
Trump's base has rallied behind him, and congressional Republicans show no sign of defecting.
He embarrassed the Soviet Union by defecting in 1961, whereafter he became a global sensation.
Venezuela's chief military attache to the United States also said he was defecting last week.
The first step is to draw attention to the actual reasons African nations are defecting.
Employees at some of the 130 restaurants owned and operated by North Korea keep defecting.
According to the complaint, Levandowski wasn't the only former Waymo employee downloading files before defecting.
Gurriel signed the contract in July of 2793 after defecting from the Cuban national team.
This year, the number of defecting Democrats will be much lower and could be zero.
After defecting, he received a $15.5 million, five-year contract with the Texas Rangers in 2011.
Martha and Béla Kérolyi have coached top American gymnasts since defecting to the country in 20003.
The number of North Koreans defecting to South Korea has declined in the last four years.
However, its postpaid churn — the amount of defecting customers — rose to 0.95 percent from 0.93 percent.
The flurry of designers defecting to Europe to show their collections isn't fake news, after all.
They failed and ended up with more electors defecting from Clinton than they did for Trump.
It would take a unified Democratic Party and a groundswell of defecting Republicans to impeach Trump.
Google reportedly offered a star engineer $3.5m in stock to dissuade him from defecting to Facebook.
The author's grandmother and mother, shortly after arriving in LA in 1968 after defecting from Hungary.
Classified Western intelligence assessments say that some militants are defecting to Al Qaeda's branch in Syria.
Can you imagine the current Republican leadership ever entertaining the idea of defecting from the president?
But the downward trend could also be a sign that some of his fans are defecting.
Even Germans with Turkish roots are defecting, said Deniz Ibis, a 30-year-old security worker.
Venezuela's chief military attache to the United States also said he was defecting late last month.
Insurers defecting from the market would directly hit individuals covered under Obamacare, likely resulting in premium hikes.
Korean peninsula Defecting from North Korea to South Korea seems to be the thing to do lately.
Since 1991, players have been defecting from the island in order to play in the major leagues.
It's reached the point that its hybrid Prius owners are defecting over to electric car company Tesla.
The Senate voted 54-45 Thursday to confirm Haspel, with six Democrats supporting and two Republicans defecting.
" She has faced Islamophobic abuse online since defecting, and right-wing Breitbart London nicknamed her "Baroness Token.
In the city of Oruro, defecting policemen dispersed government supporters with tear gas, according to local media.
All of the votes failed along party lines, with only Sanford and Jones defecting from their party.
But "as sons," he said, they were unable to raise the idea of defecting with their father.
For instance, in 2012, 20 percent of Republican electors gave some consideration to defecting from Mitt Romney.
He did so in 1968, after a competition in Vienna, going to the Canadian Embassy and defecting.
Grand predictions of dozens of defecting Republican electors by anti-Trump forces proved to be wishful thinking.
Ryan handily won the floor vote for the speakership with only nine conservatives defecting to long-shot Rep.
"Since defecting, the Dalai Lama hasn't done a single good thing for the people of Tibet," he said.
Other battle-hardened militants, some with training in chemical weapons, are defecting to Al Qaeda's branch in Syria.
South Korean officials planned to debrief him to try to determine his motive for defecting, the military said.
But the brash Ryan correctly surmises that Ramius is actually defecting, and averts nuclear disaster in the process.
CCAs are becoming so popular in California that they are threatening the IOUs from which they are defecting.
The defecting soldier was recovered and evacuated for medical treatment, and remains hospitalized, according to The Associated Press.
Whereas, Republicans have placed a lot of judges on the court that ended up defecting to the liberal block.
If defecting means hiding, finding themselves jobless, risking their safety and that of their families, many might think twice.
Defecting from Facebook — no matter how long the absence — has become just as popular as joining it once was.
The Senate voted 54-45 to confirm President Trump&aposs nominee, with six Democrats supporting and two Republicans defecting.
Then, the People's Liberation Army assembled a motley collection of conscripted fishing boats and vessels defecting from the Nationalists.
North Korean poet Jang Jin-sung also got his start with the Chosun Writers before defecting to South Korea.
Winning the battle of public opinion could prove crucial in preventing Republican senators from defecting on a confirmation vote.
Supporters argue that an expansion is necessary to stem the tide of gamblers defecting to casinos in other states.
Meanwhile they have attracted a series of defecting members of Parliament from the governing Conservative and opposition Labour parties.
Millennials are leaving the Republican Party in record numbers, with nearly a quarter of them defecting from Trump's party.
The reality is that Trump's core supporters are not going away, much less defecting to another party or politician.
So far, al-Shabaab has been pretty successful in keeping its fighters from defecting to ISIS, but it's difficult.
So I was spared having to tell him I was defecting, and I'll soon be seeing another doctor anyway.
Johnson couldn't just dismiss McNamara outright, however; doing so risked him publicly defecting to Kennedy and denouncing the war.
Journalists were keeping count as the hard-line group of Tory rebels sheared in half, defecting one by one.
November 21, 2017: Dramatic video emerges showing a North Korean soldier defecting to South Korea while being shot at.
Murkowski was one of three defecting Republican senators over the summer to sink GOP legislation aimed at repealing ObamaCare.
The tax bill passed the Senate on a 51-49 vote, with one Republican, Bob Corker of Tennessee, defecting.
The House voted last week to approve the tax bill with no support from Democrats and 13 Republicans defecting.
Venezuela's opposition, defecting military officers and Washington officials have also said Cuba provides intelligence services to prop up Maduro's administration.
Ralph Fiennes directs this film about a dancer on the edge of defecting from the Soviet Union in the 1960s.
He had admitted, in a Wednesday statement, that he had thought seriously about defecting to the center-right Conservative Party.
The trickle of PRI officials defecting to Morena may become a flood if the PRI is thrashed on election day.
That level of partisan bias gives the GOP a great deal of protection against its voters defecting to the Democrats.
The costs of defecting from Team Trump are very high, most of them won't do it, and Trump knows it.
So far, it's slow going, with only a few hundred members of the country's armed forces defecting to the opposition.
" The complaint further alleges that "since defecting, several DOS victims have received 'cease and desist' letters from a Mexican attorney.
But another Tammany politician, Albert Marinelli, announced that he and a small bloc were defecting and would not support Roosevelt.
A: If no other single party is able to form a government, they will compete in defecting to the BJP.
In November 2017, North Korean troops at the JSA shot one of their soldiers defecting to the South five times.
Clients and staff are defecting; founder and former chairman Tim Bell says the firm will "almost certainly" fail to survive.
There was "no other option" than to keep him in the country, lest he end up defecting to the West.
The video then shows the defecting soldier getting out from the driver's side of the vehicle and starting to run.
Read more: Spies living openly after defecting from Russia happens 'far more often than people would think,' intelligence sources say
When Google learned that another member was planning on defecting, the company disbanded the council—nine days after it launched.
Cabinet ministers and parliamentarians began defecting to the new government, but it remained unclear how many would ultimately cross over.
The plot is complicated, featuring machinations and betrayals; Coriolanus ends up defecting to the Volsci and nearly destroying his homeland.
What's absolutely stunning is that many of the prominent and defecting establishment Republicans would seemingly vote against their political ideals.
Kim Jong-un may have been angered by reports that his half brother had once considered defecting to South Korea.
Prosecutors accused Ms. Witt of defecting to Iran that month and working with the Revolutionary Guard to betray her country.
The phenomenon of escaping and defecting waitresses may have put a damper on the North Koreans' enthusiasm for this project.
The proposal only barely passed the House, 456 to 163, with Jackson supporters in the North defecting to the opposition.
To keep customers from defecting to rivals, some are attaching other travel services to their own in order to differentiate themselves.
The defecting lawmakers of Karnataka were spirited to a heavily guarded hotel in Maharashtra, a neighbouring state governed by the BJP.
If McConnell cannot rally the defecting GOP senators, he may have to advise the president to withdraw his nomination of Puzder.
Trump himself on Sunday morning lashed out at the Republicans defecting en masse from his campaign and warned of political retribution.
He has confounded opponents by building up huge grassroots support and winning endorsements from defecting center-left and center-right politicians.
After defecting, Ji's brother eventually reunited with him in South Korea, and his mother and sister eventually joined him as well.
He has confounded opponents by building up huge grassroots support and winning endorsements from defecting centre-left and centre-right politicians.
Sewing replaced John Cryan on April 9 amid shareholder worries of falling revenues and defecting staff in its investment banking division.
Yet as rumors swirled that pilots were defecting to other carriers after the flight cancellations, Mr. O'Leary issued an impassioned plea.
Even in trying to escape the violence — by defecting from gangs altogether — they had only managed to summon more of it.
The service would also help AT&T offer special discounts to its customers, potentially keeping them from defecting to other services.
The fight over the rules ultimately illustrated an important dynamic: the influence that defecting Republicans could have on the impeachment process.
If progressive whites are defecting because they are uninspired by Democrats, moving further to the right will only deepen their disillusionment.
ISIS fighters are defecting and going home, but experts worry they're still loyal to the cause ISIS fighters are defecting and going home, but experts worry they're still loyal to the cause The Islamic State group is facing an exodus of foreign recruits who have grown disillusioned by the terror group's failure to establish a legitimate state.
Defections from those in managerial positions are relatively rare, with just 480 defecting in the past decade, according to South Korea's government.
We asked a high-level source close to Senate leadership for a danger gradient of who is most at risk of defecting.
Both have seen their support slide as negative media coverage has dented their appeal, as well as potential voters defecting to Guzman.
And I do think that for anyone who anticipates voting 'no,' or defecting on the MTR, you know, that's why we whip.
At the end of the first Players' League season, the investors turned their backs on the players, defecting to the National League.
Larry Lessig has volunteered to defend faithless electors who violate state laws in court and claims that 20 electors are considering defecting.
Explaining he was part of the air force's high command, the man said he was defecting from Maduro's military and backing Guaido.
Morgan Stanley says that the iPhone X is helping stanch the flow of customers defecting from Apple to makers of cheaper smartphones.
After defecting from his native Cuba at 15, Fernández made his big-league debut against the New York Mets on April 7, 2013.
The book opens with her defecting from the Imperial Navy, going through a Rebellion camp and eventually being processed back into their service.
The rational move in such a game is to start defecting yourself, and declare that you're not going to pay for anything either.
After defecting from his native Cuba at 15, he made his big-league debut against the New York Mets on April 7, 2013.
Some videos have surfaced showing a few Venezuelan troops defecting and joining the opposition's side, although it's unclear how many will ultimately switch.
The Supreme Court this month ordered the reinstatement of 12 lawmakers stripped of their parliamentary seats by Yameen's party for defecting last year.
Surveillance equipment detected the defecting soldier despite heavy fog that limited visibility to about 100 meters (110 yards), Roh later told a briefing.
In June last year, around 10 North Koreans employed in Shenyang, China, were forcibly recalled home, after reports surfaced of North Koreans defecting.
Cuba now closely guards the travels of its players, driving many defecting players to risk harrowing journeys in the hands of unscrupulous smugglers.
In 2015, the church in Clewiston suffered a schism, and Howard joined some of the congregation in defecting to another, in Belle Glade.
The party accuses the military of intimidating some of its leading figures into defecting to other blocs, and of unfairly supporting Mr. Khan.
Venezuela's few defecting elites have tended to portray themselves as the true guardians of Mr. Chávez's cause and Mr. Maduro as the traitor.
Boyega was no lock Abrams said that John Boyega, who plays Finn, the defecting storm trooper, was the cast's biggest Star Wars fan.
Macomb County has been a national bellwether in the last three presidential contests, voting for Barack Obama twice before defecting to Donald Trump.
A major challenge for Clinton as she looks to win over Sanders supporters is to stop them from defecting to other third-party candidates.
But morale was already a problem, Zayd said, and fighters who were being paid a $250 monthly salary by the Defense Department began defecting.
Kavanaugh's confirmation and reputation hang in the balance, dependent on two potentially defecting Republicans — kind of like the fate of women in this country.
With elected Republicans defecting from Trump in droves, he has decided to fight a two-front battle against Hillary Clinton and his erstwhile allies.
Or, equally possible, the North Koreans killed at the airport following the failed Hanoi talks were in the process of defecting to the West.
There, support for the CDU dropped by about ten points to 29 percent, with many of its traditional voters defecting to the Green party.
"We were so afraid of him," recalled U Aung Lynn Htut, who became an intelligence officer and diplomat before defecting to the United States.
"Let me start with a greeting, a farewell or condolences," the 21-year-old wrote in an Instagram post explaining why she was defecting.
With no peace dividend to show for, the M.I.L.F. leadership was unable to prevent fighters from defecting to groups sympathetic to the Islamic State.
It's hardly a surprise, then, that the current defecting electors have adopted the moniker of a father of federalism and the world's hottest theater ticket.
On Tuesday, the administration ended Major League Baseball's deal with the Cuban Baseball Federation that allows Cuban players to enter the U.S. legally without defecting.
It passed the House on July 25 231-190, split right down party lines except for one defecting Republican who voted nay with the Democrats.
The Soviet Union of the 1970s and 1980s prevented its citizens from defecting, forcing young, independent-minded people to sit tight and hope for change.
It's hard enough to win over crucial independent voters, and having to worry about your own base defecting doesn't make that job any easier. 4.
Remini was a member of the church for 35 years — and she hasn't been shy about speaking out against the organization since defecting from it.
On the votes to reopen the government, it is the folks on the other side of aisle who are doing the defecting, not the Democrats.
It's hard to keep everything straight with each new day bringing another slew of inappropriate feuds, fuck-ups, and another handful of defecting Republican leaders.
The cartel's security expert, El Muro ("The Wall") served in the Mexican military before defecting to the cartel—which is exactly how the Zetas began.
A snag for baseball deal: An agreement that would let Cubans play in Major League Baseball without defecting has met resistance from the White House.
Meanwhile, white voters without college degrees — who are the most likely white voters to call themselves moderate — are increasingly defecting to Mr. Trump's Republican Party.
And based on his past comments, it doesn't seem all that likely he was strong-armed by his wife into defecting from the royal family.
Finn himself receives a shock in TROS when he meets Jannah, a fellow defecting stormtrooper living off-the-grid with a whole crew of them.
And I didn't even include the fact that the the Trump-backed immigration plan got only 39 votes in the Senate -- with 11 Republicans defecting.
My research finds that electors on the losing side are more likely to consider defecting, which does not bode well for those looking to oust Trump.
I had always assumed the central, final conflict between Philip and Elizabeth would be about defecting; it hadn't occurred to me that retirement was an option.
"If Espy were to pull out the upset, I still think it would be because of turnout differentials rather than Republicans defecting to Espy," he said.
The Trump administration cancelled a four-month-old agreement under which Cuban baseball players could join Major League teams in America without defecting from their country.
Ten percent of electors gave some thought to defecting in 2004, 83% in 2008 (including 20% of Republicans), and 7% in 2012 (including 10% of Republicans).
King said Tuesday many of the people who are now defecting from Trump are going to be people closer to the left side of the party.
An election volunteer, who overhears the conversation, says numerous Republican voters are defecting to the other side, thanks to the seemingly unstoppable rise of Donald Trump.
An election volunteer, who overhears the conversation, says many Republican voters are defecting to the other side, thanks to the seemingly unstoppable rise of Donald Trump.
But in the final installment, Malfoy redeems himself by defecting from Voldemort's Army in order to save his own family, and is pardoned for his crimes.
Carroll says the video shows the defecting soldier lying against a retaining wall in a pile of leaves on the South Korean side of the DMZ.
So, by closing a licensing loophole, Microsoft hopes to make its own cloud less expensive than its competitors and keep customers from defecting to rivals' clouds.
Behind the scenes, Mr. Amiri was telling his handlers that he had made a mistake by defecting, and only wanted to return to see his son.
Among the names were also 24 defecting MPs from the outgoing Socialists and on Friday the party reached out to moderate conservatives to join the cause.
Born in Dresden in 1932, he lived through Nazism, the Second World War, and the Communist occupation, before defecting to the West in the nineteen-sixties.
European Union leaders — especially the French president, Emmanuel Macron — are determined to make the exit as painful as possible to deter other union members from defecting.
In 2014, Mr. Sirisena, a close ally of Mr. Rajapaksa's and the health minister in his government, surprised observers by defecting to run for the presidency.
At that time, the mid-1990s, there was what Ms. Valdés has called "a generational hole," because many dancers were defecting, a problem that has persisted.
In July, the Senate rejected a similar measure to curtail the president's war powers related to Iran, with only four Republican senators defecting to support it.
"I don't see most Democrats staying home or defecting because of Medicare for All as an issue," said Joel Payne, a veteran of Democratic presidential campaigns.
"I don't see most Democrats staying home or defecting because of Medicare for All as an issue," said Joel Payne, a veteran of Democratic presidential campaigns.
Somehow it's hard to imagine a majority of men defecting from real women to a swaying blue-haired cartoon with an adhesive bandage across her nose.
Perhaps his reward for, in effect, defecting has been the odd protected life in Russia that celebrated spies like Kim Philby and Guy Burgess previously enjoyed.
Lipinski resisted the temptation of defecting to the populist left and focused on traditionally Democratic issues that his constituents care about: job creation and economic growth.
Instead of attracting new customers to the Apple ecosystem with breakthrough innovation, Apple is focusing on preventing its loyal customers from defecting to Android-based devices.
Uber's controversies have dented its brand, hurt its ability to recruit the best engineers and cost it customers in America, who are defecting to its rival, Lyft.
House Democrats also plan to start introducing bills to re-open parts of the government, hoping the threat of defecting Republicans persuades leadership to break with Trump.
Collins' comments come as GOP resistance is hardening against Garland -- as few are willing to break ranks from conservative activists willing to pummel anyone who considers defecting.
The App Store may be one of iOS's greatest gifts, but I would argue iMessage is what is keeping people from even thinking about defecting to Android.
So the child lived in hiding for the first few years of his life, Sung Hae Rang, Kim Jong Nam's aunt, told Time in 2003 after defecting.
Mr. Sirisena, who was health minister under Mr. Rajapaksa before defecting to join the coalition against him, had also been his party's general secretary for 13 years.
Washington (CNN)Years after defecting from Russia and resettling in the US, former KGB officer Alexander Zaporozhsky was lured back to the country he had once betrayed.
He trained as a Socialist Realist painter in that destroyed eastern city before defecting to West Germany in 1961, months before the rise of the Berlin Wall.
And as with the Democratic Party in America, many of its allies view it as too centrist, and some are defecting to minor parties to its left.
But as a percentage, the number of young people who have crossed over to this camp, instead of defecting from Christian institutions altogether, has never been large.
There were reports that Mr. Abbas would present his visitors with an ultimatum to produce something within 45 days or face the Palestinians defecting from the process.
And just yesterday, The Guardian reported that Woolfe had been thinking about defecting to the Conservative Party following the election of Theresa May as leader in February.
Others are defecting - or attempting to defect - to May's Conservative Party with a view to installing a leader more in tune with their less integrationist vision of Brexit.
"I curse and condemn the South Korean puppet forces who allured and abducted our daughters," said Ri Gun Suk, the mother of the youngest of the defecting waitresses.
Meanwhile, the parallel story of defecting stormtrooper Finn, unprecedented in the Star Wars canon, gave the lie to lazy takes that TFA was a "beat for beat" remake.
SEOUL (Reuters) - The North Korean soldier who was shot while defecting to South Korea on Monday suffered massive internal damage, the surgeon leading his treatment said on Wednesday.
Yameen's government retains a majority in parliament in the absence of the opposition's 12 MPs who were stripped of their seats by Yameen's party for defecting last year.
The White House is currently waging a pressure campaign to prevent Republicans from defecting and joining the 47 Senate Democrats who will likely support the House-passed resolution.
It also ordered the reinstatement of 12 lawmakers who had been stripped of their parliamentary seats by Yameen's party for defecting last year, saying their removal was unconstitutional.
"If you start seeing more people talk about defecting as Republicans it gets really hard to figure out how this gets put together in the Senate," Fagen said.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a leading combatant against Islamic State, on Thursday accused Turkey of pressuring one of its senior commanders into defecting.
Defecting in complete secrecy was the only escape from the abuse of a manic depressive ex-husband, and a country that offered them neither protection nor a future.
Cuban players began defecting with more regularity in the 1990s, and Mr. Hechavarria and Mr. Chapman are two of 17 Cubans who are on M.L.B. teams this year.
Mind you, last time Democrats held both houses in Albany, in 2009-10, there was a coup in the State Senate, involving two Democrats defecting to the Republicans.
The latest people to have their farms seized are not white farmers, but dozens of political figures who have fallen out of favor by defecting from ZANU-PF.
"If we're not watching," Mr. Fosina said, "we're risking the potential of any one of our donors being one click away from defecting to another not-for-profit."
This is why coups are often led by colonels or civilians of equivalent rank, who also enjoy fewer fruits of patronage and so face less downside in defecting.
They can try to rewrite it in a way that can secure 50 Republican votes, a seeming impossibility at this point, given the complaints by the defecting senators.
But following any peace agreement, the number of hard-line insurgents defecting to the Islamic State to keep fighting has been a concern among Afghan and western officials.
The 'faithless' electors My studies of presidential electors finds that most believe they should have the independence to vote as they wish and a surprisingly large number consider defecting.
In 1962, Fidel Castro outlawed any sort of for-profit sports in Cuba, leaving professional athletes with the choice of either staying in Cuba or defecting to another country.
In either case, with the AP now defecting in this fever-pitched grammatical battle, there will likely only be a few holdouts left carrying the banner of "the Internet."
He joined a number of well-known Republicans defecting due to the prospect of a Trump presidency, including Richard Armitage, deputy secretary of state under President George W. Bush.
If it loses the seat left open by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, Trump will likely shoulder the blame and Republicans could start defecting from his agenda.
"Shooting towards the South at a defecting person, that's a violation of the armistice agreement," Song Young-moo said during a visit to the border on Monday, Reuters reported.
Philadelphia's District Attorney Seth Williams showed promise when recruiting defecting corruption prosecutors Pat Blessington and Frank Fina from the State Attorney General's Office to successfully prosecute the sting case.
The Swiss bank enforced a provision in Mr. Orcel's contract that required him to take a six-month break, known as gardening leave, before defecting to a rival business.
On Al Jazeera television in 2015, a defecting soldier who served on the Mezze air base said detainees' bodies had been taken to a crematory in the Harasta neighborhood.
"Officials need the markets as much as the people need them," said Kim Jeong-ae, a journalist in Seoul who worked as a propagandist in North Korea before defecting.
Broad-based efforts to address the deep socioeconomic disparities between the North and the South have not been implemented as they should to stem the flow of defecting Nigerians.
South Korean officials suspected that a North Korean agent killed Mr. Lee, who had become a bitter critic of the government in Pyongyang after defecting to Seoul in 1982.
At first, most men fighting in the mountains swore allegiance to the Free Syrian Army, a loose affiliation of revolutionary brigades led by defecting officers of the regular army.
But the "faithless elector" scenario still runs up against a mishmash of state laws, making it almost impossible for an across-the-board sweep of at least 270 electors defecting.
But it's tragic because he could be an ally, but he winds up defecting and going with what's familiar, what he's trained to see as his right and his privilege.
Mark Kirk (R-IL) defecting to the Democratic camp and the likes of Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) at least trying to demonstrate openness to compromise.
He has proven that there are almost no circumstances in which a two-thirds Senate super majority swelled by defecting Republicans would vote to convict him in an impeachment trial.
Defecting Republicans aren't going to put her over the edge, but young people might—if Clinton's team stops focusing on rich Republicans and starts doing more to win them over.
It's KD's first time playing in OKC since defecting for the Golden State Warriors -- and Smith says there's NO CHANCE the fans are gonna let him off the hook easy.
As for Trump Model Management, time will tell if the agency will continue to be mired in controversy, and, if so, whether other agents and models will end up defecting.
Lee Yun Keol, who worked in a North Korean Guard Command unit before defecting to South Korea in 22018, said the country's leader always travels with his own personal toilet.
"Actually, what they spend isn't that much," Kim Min-gyu, a former North Korean diplomat who worked at the North Korean embassy in Moscow until defecting in 2009, told Reuters.
Ultimately, high-trust societies are positive equilibriums, in which most people behave as they should because the gains to behaving as they should are higher than the gains to defecting.
After defecting to Merrill Lynch in 2008, and following the crisis-era merger with Bank of America, he quickly assumed control over the firm's sprawling investment banking and markets operations.
He says he has survived one assassination attempt by al-Shabaab in Nairobi after former comrades were sent back to his home town to kill him as punishment for defecting.
Since Ms. James's resignation, Mr. Woolfe has said he wants to run again, but he angered some colleagues by admitting that he had considered defecting to the rival Conservative Party.
The customer base for full-service restaurants across the country started to shrink in 2007, Ms. Riggs said, as the recession led defecting customers to look for faster, cheaper food.
When announcing his plan to run for the leadership, Woolfe had angered some in his party by admitting he had considered defecting to join Prime Minister Theresa May's ruling Conservatives.
He had dominated in front of a global audience at various tournaments, and unlike many of his fellow Cuban superstars did not seem to even consider the possibility of defecting.
With voting delayed until after the July 4th holiday and a growing list of GOP senators defecting, the Republican healthcare bill is floundering; it will ultimately fail, as it should.
Credit Suisse's spying surfaced in September when former star wealth manager Iqbal Khan, after defecting to rival UBS , confronted a private detective who was following him and his wife through Zurich.
Choe says by the time the manager revealed, only to her, that they would actually be defecting to South Korea, she only had time to "warn" a handful of the waitresses.
Choe said by the time the manager revealed, only to her, that they would actually be defecting to South Korea, she only had time to "warn" a handful of the waitresses.
That's a mystery that Mr. Cannan and Mr. Adam play up, though defecting to a totalitarian country seems like a deranged career move, even for a filmmaker down on his luck.
This is another indication that Oracle's cloud strategy is really about keeping customers from defecting to rival cloud databases, rather than taking on the cloud giant Amazon Web Services head-on.
Reuters was unable to immediately confirm Yonhap's report about warning shots being fired from the South as North Korean troops searched for the defecting soldier and few other details were available.
Soldiers, who thought the February Revolution meant the end of the war, mutinied against their brutal officers, defecting and fraternizing with German troops, wandering back to the cities to find work.
When the Syrian war broke out in 2011, soldiers were defecting from the Syrian army and only a fraction of the troops could be counted on for loyalty in the field.
Eventually the five men of the movie's title arrived in Detroit after defecting or using other means of leaving the Soviet Union, and the Red Wings embarked on a rousing comeback.
The prime minister scraped by, in a vote of 151 to 148, with the support of defecting lawmakers from the former coalition party — the right-wing Independent Greeks — and independent legislators.
Nanhee is indeed the daughter of a North Korean miner, whom she has left behind in defecting to the South and whose spirit (embodied by Francis Jue) haunts her daily life.
South Korean patrol boats fired​ warning shots and broadcast warnings, a standard procedure when a North Korean fishing boat crosses the border without signaling that those on the boat are defecting​.
Mr. Weld then backed Jeb Bush in the 2016 Republican primaries, before defecting to the Libertarian Party to become the running mate of Gary Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico.
In 1993, they signed a deal stateside with Elektra, the major label they would call home for eight full-length albums before defecting to 513AD in 2008 for their final studio release.
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A growing number of companies trading on China's main over-the-counter (OTC) equity market are defecting to Shanghai's hotly-anticipated Nasdaq-style technology board, as they follow the money.
They also say Mr Som had been on the verge of defecting to the BJP, and that the men who killed him at an election rally were most likely AITC goondas (thugs).
Even in the face of tremendous political pressure from donors, activists and Donald Trump to pass a tax bill, some Republicans from these states are already defecting from Trump's signature legislative initiative.
"I'm convinced that there is more than enough proof of her crimes," said Marta Suplicy, a senator from São Paulo who was Ms. Rousseff's ally before defecting from her leftist Workers' Party.
After defecting from Kukiz '20153, Winnicki is now the National Movement's sole MP. He told me that his party's goal for the next election is to enter Parliament under its own steam.
To the Democrats' endless frustration, Mr. Felder has never once caucused with members of his own party, defecting to the other side of the aisle within days of being elected in 2012.
Seven of other restaurant workers who did not join the 13 in defecting in April returned to Pyongyang and were later shown to a CNN reporter on a trip to North Korea.
More recently, with premiums soaring and insurers defecting from the Affordable Care Act marketplace in many states, Democrats were hard put to defend the law, which was passed without any Republican votes.
Mr. Obama, for his part, did not ask his allies to block all efforts to alter the law, but warned Democrats against "rescuing" Republicans by defecting on votes that would dismantle it.
Polls show that many voters (like quite a few MPs) are defecting to the moderate Liberal Democrats—a sign that they reject the drift to the extremes in the two main parties.
The addition of Time Warner allows AT&T to offer products like HBO and other video services, either at discounted rates or as part of a package, to keep customers from defecting.
Nonetheless, she will obviously appeal to the many Tories in the seat hoping for a soft Brexit, and might help prevent some of them from defecting to the more pro-European Lib Dems.
The U.S. women's gymnastics program has flourished under the guidance of Romanian couple Martha and Béla Kérolyi who have coached America's top gymnasts to Olympic gold since defecting to the U.S. in 1981.
Seoul, South Korea (CNN)A North Korean soldier was shot by his former comrades while defecting to South Korea across the demilitarized zone, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement Monday.
He had already accomplished so much, defecting from Cuba and becoming a major league star, but the thought of speaking before a crowded ballroom on a January night in Manhattan was something new.
The goal is to keep its own customers (which encompass most of corporate America) from defecting to rival clouds using an old-school competitive move of the type previous Microsoft CEOs might make.
He rejoined the Congolese national army, serving as a general from 2007 to 2012, before defecting to become a founding member of a new rebel group, M23, which rose up against the government.
Woolfe had angered some in his party when he said he would stand as a leadership candidate to replace James but then also admitted he had considered defecting to join May's ruling Conservatives.
The notion of deeply polarized voters fits in Poland, where crossing the line that divides the populist nationalist government from the opposition is as unlikely as defecting to the enemy camp in wartime.
He had become so obsessed with golf, which he first tried shortly after defecting from Cuba in 2011, that he was hoping to become a professional golfer after his baseball days were over.
They all worked for the KGB during the Cold War before defecting to the U.S. And it's thanks to them that we know so much about one of the KGB's most secretive departments.
Chambers thought he was defecting to the losing side, and even now conservatives feel like a beleaguered minority; meanwhile, the right has secured power in just about every American institution except the academy.
The reaction from O'Rourke's donor ranks could prove to put even more pressure on him to improve at next month's debate and prevent bundlers and donors from defecting to his rivals in the primary.
A combined company would be able to spend less on ads knowing there is no risk of customers defecting to the competition, and also save money by gaining the upper hand in ad purchases.
Party leaders believe they can draft a bill by Friday and pass it on Monday, at which point they'll still have 52 Senate votes and thus room to spare even with Bob Corker defecting.
The American man who was captured by Kurdish forces in Iraq while apparently defecting from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was charged Thursday with providing material support to the terrorist group.
He's lashing out where he can, but his resources are dwindling by the day, with his cash supply bottled up in Miami and his men either dying off or defecting to the Cali cartel.
South Korean officials have cited recent defectors as proof that some North Korean elites abroad were defecting rather than facing persecution, as it became increasingly difficult to perform their missions under tightened international sanctions.
Years of negotiation will follow even if a deal is reached, and there are already signs that voters who backed Labour in 2017 are defecting to smaller and more overtly anti-Brexit parties. Mrs.
It was a surprise because an internal inquiry into the case — in which Credit Suisse officials ordered the surveillance of an executive who was defecting to archrival UBS — had cleared Mr. Thiam of wrongdoing.
Impeachment is designed for an offense so bad that it essentially is like defecting to another sovereign or taking action in the interest of another sovereign to the clear detriment of the United States.
" The episode coincided with a statement by Kimia Alizadeh, a top Iranian athlete, who recently announced on Instagram that she was defecting from the country because leaders there had used her as a "tool.
The death comes at a time when an unprecedented number of members of the North Korean elite are defecting to South Korea, most notably Thae Yong-ho, the dapper former deputy ambassador to Britain.
Seweryn Bialer, who endured persecution by the Nazis in Poland and served in its postwar Communist government before defecting to the West and becoming a leading expert on the Soviet Union, died on Feb.
It does Rubio little good to emerge as the winner of these fights if Christie's supporters break for Trump, and if Cruz-curious Rubio supporters respond to Bush's attacks by defecting to the Texas senator.
Sasikala mounted a bid to oust Tamil Nadu's caretaker Chief Minister O.P. Paneerselvam, corralling lawmakers from their AIADMK party into a resort hotel in an attempt to stop them from defecting to her opponent's camp.
In 1974, he caused his own scandal by defecting from the Soviet Union to the United States where he continued to dance and even acted in films and television (White Nights, Sex and the City).
Here's the dystopian scenario: As wealthier people begin generating and storing more of their own power, partially or wholly defecting from the grid, they will be less invested in the grid's health, in two senses.
The departure of one Australia's most popular and high-profile female lawmakers follows four government MPs either retiring or defecting from the ruling center-right coalition, which is in a minority and trailing in polls.
After defecting, he moved with his family to a suburb of Washington, D.C. He said he doesn't fear for his safety, but South Korean authorities have accused North Korea of trying to assassinate other defectors.
Supporters of Mr. Machar have cried foul, pointing out that Mr. Deng's opposition membership had been revoked by Mr. Machar, in a statement on Friday that accused Mr. Deng of defecting to the president's side.
That leaves Israel with two possible scenarios: a Likud rebellion to oust Netanyahu so they can form a unity government with Gantz; or Likud members defecting on their own, without a primary, to join Gantz.
Or, as I have written elsewhere, Democrats cannot simply argue in favor of redistributive government on economic matters because defecting whites are deeply hostile to a government they see as coercive on matters of race.
Not only did those four — that's Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Helga Hufflepuff for the newbies — create the school together, but they then were nearly destroyed by in-fighting and Slytherin's eventual defecting.
Monica Witt, a former Air Force counter-intelligence officer, is accused of defecting to Iran in 2013, after leaving the military in 2008 after more than a decade's service and later working as a defense contractor.
"By around 2010, it seemed they were capable of manufacturing various types of CNC machines," said Kim Heung-gwang, a North Korean defector who taught at Pyongyang's Hamhung Computer Technology University before defecting to South Korea.
But among a lot of liberals, there's a desperate desire to find some sort of hope in the next few years — hence the talk about Republican electors defecting from Trump, the presidential recount, and so on.
"Recently even North Korea's elite group is collapsing, followed by key figures defecting to foreign countries, showing a sign of serious cracks, with chances of shaking the regime further," she told a National Security Council meeting.
Another factor was the collapse in support for the pro-Brexit United Kingdom Independence Party, with its voters defecting evenly to the two major parties, rather than predominantly to the Conservatives, as many analysts had predicted.
"While Martha was bravely fighting the Taliban, Kyrsten Sinema said she had no problem with Americans defecting from our country to join the Taliban," he told the crowd, using a GOP attack line on the candidate.
Olivera, 31, joined the Braves last July as part of a three-team trade with the Los Angeles Dodgers, with whom he had signed a six-year, $62.5 million contract last May after defecting from Cuba.
In July, the Russian Interfax news agency reported that Aleksandr Poteyev, 22004, an intelligence officer accused of defecting and betraying a ring of Russian spies living undercover in American suburbs, had died in the United States.
So-called cord cutters, many of whom continue to rely on broadband providers such as Comcast for internet services, have started defecting to video-streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu and Youtube TV for television programming.
This divide is critical to understand — in part because it confirms that progressive voters are not the ones defecting from Clinton, but also because it points to perhaps the biggest challenge facing the post-Bernie left.
Manchin, a senator from West Virginia — which went for Trump by double digits in 2016 — previously voted with Republicans on Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation and is known for defecting on contentious votes in the past.
He said that he, too, had been taught Cosa Nostra tactics and rules by his father, and that he was aware that his father had approved an edict by Colombo leaders to kill him for defecting.
Republican leaders, who were somewhat pessimistic earlier in the week about their ability to keep four of their own members from defecting on the witness vote, were sounding significantly more confident about their chances by Thursday.
That indictment was made public on Wednesday as the Justice Department accused Ms. Witt, 39, of defecting to Iran in August 2013 to work with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in betrayal of the United States.
But a small splinter group of white evangelicals defecting from the GOP, combined with wider demographic changes in the number of white evangelicals overall, may herald the weakening of the white evangelical-GOP alliance over time.
One Syrian political figure, who was once involved in Damascus religious matters before defecting, echoed a growing - but unverifiable - notion the government had good cause to "silence" Ibrahim, but make it appear as though militiants were responsible.
Sources working in the mountains of Sinaloa told VICE that, amid the chaos, gunmen aligned with "Los Chapitos"—the little Shorties, as Guzmán's sons are known—are now questioning their loyalties and defecting to work for Zambada.
Opposition figure Leopoldo Lopez -- apparently freed from house arrest by defecting soldiers -- had taken refuge in the Chilean diplomatic mission residency, and by Tuesday night was being relocated, alongside his family, to the Spanish Embassy in Caracas.
But in 2016, at least, rank-and-file workers—like the ones that filled the Javits Center Wednesday—are suspected to be quietly breaking ranks with their Clinton-loving, left-wing labor chiefs, and defecting to Trump.
But the bill that passed out of committee isn't the one that the Senate will pass — and the changes that are being added didn't come through the usual amendment process, but by backroom negotiations with defecting senators.
Now, under current party rules, they will still have to vote for him at first — but they could try to block his nomination by changing the rules or by defecting from him in later rounds of balloting.
McKinsey & Company Inc has filed a lawsuit accusing a former senior partner and shareholder of defecting to rival consulting firm Accenture and bringing along a trove of confidential documents including clients' trade secrets and internal business plans.
The wounded soldier was evacuated from the site for emergency medical attention, the statement said, after defecting from a North Korean guard post at the Joint Security Area on the heavily-guarded border between the two countries.
Ji Hyeon-a, a North Korean who was forcibly repatriated three times before successfully defecting, spoke about the horrors of her experience at a prison camp in North Korea, during a side-event at the UN Monday.
The raft of brands missing at Baselworld this year include some that have fallen on hard times but also a number that are going their own way: either defecting to rival fairs or running their own shows.
When defecting from their plant-based diets, these bloggers and influencers claimed a variety of onset health problems such as losing their periods; skin issues, like rashes and acne; brain fog and memory loss; and digestive issues.
However, we estimate that Secretary Clinton received about 1.5 million fewer votes from Catholics than President Obama did in 2012 — a continuation of a long-term trend of Catholics (mostly white) defecting to the GOP since 2009.
Furthermore, Clinton lost more of her own mid-October supporters in the panel than Trump did — with some defecting to third-party candidates or not voting, and some (0.9 percent of the panel) moving over to Trump.
Though GOP leaders found it convenient to blame AHCA's failure mainly on holdout conservatives, the reality is that moderates and mainstream Republicans worried that the bill would cause millions to lose coverage were also defecting in droves.
In her new memoir, Perfectly Clear, the mother of four and self-described former "poster girl for Scientology" claims that she and her family were stalked and harassed by the church after she announced that she was defecting.
Speaking alongside opposition figure Leopoldo Lopez -- apparently freed from house arrest by defecting soldiers -- Guaido declared the "start of the end of the usurpation" in a video filmed outside La Carlota military airbase in Caracas early on Tuesday.
It's an appeal that's at once emotional and politically pragmatic — abortion is a nonnegotiable issue for many Republicans, making it an issue to potentially cause those Republicans considering defecting to Jones or sitting out the election to reconsider.
Sean Smith defecting to the Raiders could be cause for concern about the secondary, but the Chiefs can replace him with Peters and also still have free safety Eric Berry to make matchups easier in the back end.
Both men are coming off controversial split decision losses—with Masvidal dropping his decision to Benson Henderson in his final UFC outing before defecting to Bellator and Larkin losing a razor-thin decision to fearsome Russian Albert Tumenov.
The last record for electors defecting against a living candidate was set in 1808 with six — although 63 Democratic electors in 23 did not vote for their party's nominee Horace Greeley because he died after the general election.
He has the potential to attract suburban moderates defecting from the Republican Party under President Trump, to invigorate black voters who were underwhelmed by Hillary Clinton and to reverse at least some losses among working-class white voters.
The costs for defecting to South Korea can be very high, with numerous reports of the left-behind family members of defectors being punished, and pressure put on them to convince their relatives to return to North Korea.
One of North Korea's aristocracy, defecting as deputy ambassador to the United Kingdom in 28503, Thae Yong Ho's testimony is highly valuable — less for his recommendations, and more for his revelations about the thinking of North Korean elites.
Mr. Carswell, 45, was considered a great catch, defecting to UKIP from the Conservative Party in August 2014 because, he said, he believed that the Conservative government was ambivalent about holding a referendum to leave the European Union.
In an effort to dissuade younger players from defecting, the MLB agreed to impose a one- to two-year waiting period on anyone who does so before they can be eligible to sign with a big-league team.
FRANKFURT, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Daimler's top electric motors development executive, Harald Kroeger, is defecting to auto supplier Robert Bosch, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, as a battle to hire leading talents in the sector heats up.
Karolyi and her husband Bela, who count the first ever gymnast to score a perfect 10, Nadia Comaneci, among their many pupils, are credited with turning the United States into a gymnastics powerhouse after defecting from Romania in 1981.
The legislation would need to be some combination of bipartisan (so it could survive defections), popular (so members would feel confident in bucking interest groups), and backed by some kind of clear mandate (so members would be uncomfortable defecting).
In a move unusual for the highest echelons of American corporate law, one of Wall Street's top deal makers is defecting to a rival after a 26.9-year career at the white-shoe law firm Cravath, Swaine and Moore.
After the midterm vote, Mr. McConnell will have some breathing room from the razor-thin margins he has been working with — Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh was confirmed 50 to 48, with one Republican, Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, defecting.
The former spy leader then fled, first to the Dominican Republic and then to Spain, where several members of the opposition and defecting members of the Socialist party have sought refuge as Venezuela's political situation spiraled out of control.
In Kiev, the Ukrainian Security Service confirmed that the two servicemen had been detained on the border with Crimea, but it described them as former Ukrainian Army soldiers, who are now facing charges of treason for defecting to Russia.
"Customer satisfaction with subscription television service [fell] 3.1 percent to an ACSI score of 62, an 11-year low as the industry faces a seismic shift of subscribers defecting to lower-cost online video streaming services," the report observed.
Defecting from Venezuela's military Diaz is one of more than 20193,500 soldiers who heeded calls from the US, Colombia, and Venezuela's opposition movement to turn their backs on their embattled President Nicolás Maduro and stand beside the upstart leader Juan Guaidó.
While there have been no known cases of North Koreans defecting during past games in South Korea, the South is expected to keep a close watch on them, said Hong Hyun-ik, a senior research fellow at Seoul's Sejong Institute.
Photos smuggled out of Syrian military hospitals by a defecting officer known only by his alias, Caesar, and disclosed to the public in 21980, showed how more than 215,22013 detainees met their fate in various detention centers around the capital, Damascus.
But, with his newly-inked deal with Bellator signed at the tender age of 32 after defecting from the UFC, it appeared Smooth had put a stop to those plans of hastily hanging up his gloves during most athletes' peak years.
He was held for ransom in Mexico after defecting from Cuba and his relatives in Florida were surveilled by his kidnappers throughout the ordeal—then he had to cope with the legal fallout of the kidnapping while playing for the Rangers.
Spain has become one of the main safe havens for members of the Venezuelan opposition and defecting members of the Socialist party who have fled their country as the political situation and economic problems there have spiraled out of control.
Ranariddh's career exemplifies not only the swings in Cambodian politics, but also the way Hun Sen, 65, has used force and cunning to neutralize enemies since defecting from the genocidal Khmer Rouge in the 1970s to help drive it from power.
In 2012, a North Korean soldier defecting to South Korea scaled three barbed-wire fences on the eastern land border without being detected, and then had to knock on the doors of a South Korean military barracks to get attention.
President Trump, reversing an agreement negotiated by the Obama administration, abruptly ended a deal between Major League Baseball and the Cuban Baseball Federation that had eased the path for players to compete in the United States without defecting from their country.
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean troops fired on a fellow soldier who was defecting to South Korea on Monday across the heavily armed border dividing the countries, South Korean officials said, amid heightened tensions over the North's nuclear weapons program.
SEOUL (Reuters) - An investigation by South Korea's human rights watchdog found no evidence the country's spy agency tricked or coerced a dozen North Korean restaurant workers into defecting in 2016, as some have alleged, documents reviewed by Reuters showed on Tuesday.
The budget vote put those competing factors on display, with 212 Republicans defecting and the resolution narrowly passing, 2000 to 224, in part over concerns about the possible elimination of a tax break that disproportionately benefits residents of high-tax states.
When a defecting K.G.B. agent in 1972 London reveals a plot that could change the course of the Cold War, Daddy (Brian Cox), the head of MI5, assembles a team to investigate — prompting the Soviets to activate sleeper agents across Britain.
Despite an infamous statistic that more British Muslims have joined the Islamic State in Syria than have joined the British Army, the per capita count of those defecting to Syria is lower than in countries like Belgium and France, experts say.
"Rather than using a public restroom, the leader of North Korea has a personal toilet that follows him around when he travels," Lee Yun Keol, who worked in a North Korean Guard Command unit before defecting in 2005, told the Washington Post.
"We have taken the step in leaving the old politics behind and invite others to do the same," said Chuka Umunna, one of the defecting MPs, at a press conference in London, calling on other politicians from across the spectrum to join them.
Cuban players earn $40 to $200 a month, while Abreu ($20143 million), Hector Olivera ($62.5 million, Dodgers), Rusney Castillo ($72.5 million, Boston Red Sox ), Yasmani Tomas ($68.5 million, Arizona Diamondbacks) and Yoan Moncada ($63 million, Red Sox) have signed hefty contracts after defecting.
Baryshnikov studied ballet at the prominent Vaganova Academy in Saint Petersburg, back when it was called Leningrad, and spent time as a principal dancer with the Kirov Ballet before defecting from the Soviet Union, according to his biography at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.
With Republicans openly defecting from the GOP nominee and polls showing that Trump is performing poorly in solidly red states like Georgia, as well as swing states like Pennsylvania and Ohio, there will be a strong temptation for Clinton to remain silent.
It involves a list of damning info everyone's looking for, a defecting Stasi agent played by Eddie Marsan, and Bill Skarsgård as a local fixer sporting a variation on that haircut now beloved by the alt-right (it, admittedly, looks great on him).
Queensland's Liberal National Party (LNP), which replicates the federal coalition made up of Turnbull's Liberal Party and its partner the National Party, was hurt by voters, particularly in regional and rural areas, defecting to Pauline Hanson's right-wing, populist One Nation party.
Katumbi, the former governor of Democratic Republic of Congo's copper-mining Katanga region, was sentenced in absentia to three years in prison in June 2016, shortly after defecting from Kabila's ruling party and announcing he would run for president later that year.
The change comes as the North Korean People's Army sought to prevent other soldiers from defecting by planting trees and apparently digging a trench at a section of the demilitarized zone, according to the chargé d'affaires at the US Embassy in Seoul.
"He was the one who started the current wave of players defecting and deciding to come to the U.S. and staying here," said Peter C. Bjarkman, a longtime scholar of Cuban baseball, whose book "Cuba's Baseball Defectors" is scheduled for publication in May.
The UNC official told a news conference that a soldier from the North Korean People's Army (KPA) had crossed the Military Demarcation Line (MDL), the border between the two Koreas, for a few seconds as others fired shots at the defecting soldier.
Last month, Mr. Guaidó and American officials tried to persuade senior military officers to abandon Mr. Maduro by sending convoys with food and medical supplies overland into Venezuela, forcing a choice between blocking the aid for civilians or defecting from the army.
The commission said it could not confirm that South Korean authorities had coerced the North Koreans into defecting because of inconsistencies in the testimony of the manager, according to the 42-page document sent to the group on Monday and seen by Reuters.
"There are some who say, 'I was a fighter and will continue on that path,' and others who say, 'No, I was tricked,'" said Basil Karazoun, who said he had joined the terrorist group for protection after defecting from the Syrian military.
After this year's presidential election, the former spy leader fled, first to the Dominican Republic and then to Spain, where several members of the opposition and defecting members of the Socialist party have sought refuge as Venezuela's political situation spiraled out of control.
Moreover, it's possible that even in general elections candidates can persuade voters by varying their positions on issues (say, defecting from their party consensus to a more popular view) or by receiving different media coverage — factors that Kalla and Broockman's study doesn't cover.
Controversy over the fate of 12 North Korean waitresses, several of whom say they were tricked by South Korean intelligence into defecting and now want to return home, has made some in the refugee community concerned about being forced to return to North Korea.
"So sure-footed for so long, Mr Osborne was widely regarded as Cameron's natural and chosen successor, but recent blunders seem to have dealt him a serious blow to achieving that outcome and punters have begun defecting from him to Boris," bookmaker William Hill said.
" Han Jin-myung, a North Korean diplomat who was stationed in Vietnam until 2015 before defecting to South Korea, said he had been tasked with promoting the Wonsan scheme abroad and had little success: "We just ended up selling North Korean herbs and medicines instead.
Susan CollinsSusan Margaret CollinsCook Political Report moves Susan Collins Senate race to 'toss up' The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy Trump crosses new line with Omar, Tlaib, Israel move MORE—to be chosen by the defecting Republican electors themselves.
As many as six Conservative M.P.s are currently in discussions with the Lib Dems about defecting to the party, and many others have said they would vote to oust their own party from power if Johnson attempts to push through a no-deal Brexit.
Mr. Aboud, in his 30s, was admired by jihadists but despised by many Syrian rebels and activists, who accused him of betrayal and of organizing an assassination campaign against rebel leaders with whom he had collaborated before publicly defecting to the Islamic State in 2014.
Centrist Macron, inaugurated on Sunday, is trying to build broader support around his own Republic on the Move party, which is only a year old and has never fought a legislative election, and already has the support of a number of defecting Socialist lawmakers.
SEOUL, South Korea — Fully armed North Korean troops violated the truce that halted the 1950-53 Korean War when they fired weapons across the border last week while chasing a fellow Communist soldier defecting to South Korea, the United Nations Command said on Wednesday.
And the featurists were running out of people to write about — running out of alcoholic actors, ne'er-do-well royals, depressive comedians, jailed rock stars, defecting ballet dancers, reclusive film directors, hysterical fashion models, indigent marquises, adulterous golfers, wife-beating footballers and rapist boxers.
In an effort to prevent even more M.P.s from defecting and to heal some of the divisions, Tom Watson, deputy Labour leader and a vocal critic of Mr. Corbyn, recently announced the creation of a moderate, social democratic group, the Future Britain Group, inside Labour.
The best version you get of the Green Party argument is that withholding your vote from Clinton will prevent her from moving to the center — that if she fears her left flank defecting, she'll resist moving in that direction to ensure that she cements it.
" Han Jin-myung, a North Korean diplomat who was stationed in Vietnam until 2015 before defecting to South Korea, said he had been tasked with promoting the Wonsan scheme abroad and had little success: "We just ended up selling North Korean herbs and medicines instead.
Borges said in those interviews that he was unsure whether he would vote for Trump and said that he had been urging the Republican nominee to also stop attacking fellow Republicans, as Trump has done this week in the wake of top Republicans defecting from his campaign.
Viktor Korchnoi, who was widely considered one of the greatest chess players in history but never captured the world championship in more than 60 years as an elite competitor, died on Monday in Switzerland, where he had lived for decades after defecting from the Soviet Union.
But it's not as though she's reached the point where she's willing to ditch it all for Philip and her kids — and it's highly unlikely she'll ever reach that point, just as I don't think Philip will ever seriously consider defecting without his wife and children.
Lawrence Martin-Bittman, who as a Cold War spy for Czechoslovakia specialized in running disinformation schemes to roil the West, and who, after defecting in 21986 to the United States, taught the perils of propaganda to journalism students, died on Tuesday at his home in Rockport, Mass.
Here's what you need to know: • The U.N. Command is demanding to meet with officials of the North Korean People's Army, accusing its troops of violating the truce that halted the Korean War when they fired on and chased a defecting comrade across the border last week.
He made his name when still quite young: In 1993, at 19, he choreographed "À Bras le Corps" with Dimitri Chamblas, a friend from the Conservatoire de Lyon, where both had trained after defecting from the Paris Opera Ballet school to pursue a more contemporary dance orientation.
A lot of how Biden got to be vice president in the first place had to do with the idea that he would help Obama appeal to the kind of voters — older, less educated white Northerners who aren't evangelical Christians — who we know eventually ended up defecting to Trump.
By using technology, Goldman is hoping that it can screen for young bankers who are a better fit for the firm and thus more likely to stay longer instead of defecting to a private equity fund or start-up after a few years, which has become the norm.
China is seen as anxious to prevent carriers from using niche markets as a back door to the main airline business by grabbing licenses to set up small regional or cargo airlines and then quickly defecting to the more lucrative big-city segment, dominated by Airbus and Boeing.
The complications of defecting from Cuba and navigating the immigration laws have helped smugglers and human traffickers gain a foothold in Cuban baseball, often to help players leave Cuba and then to arrange the documents needed to establish residency in another country and gain clearance from the Treasury Department.
Set in 1984, the film followed the story of the Soviet Union's top submarine captain who breaches protocol by making a move for America – leaving audiences to wonder whether he's defecting or preparing to wage an all-out war on the US.  Poor ol' Jack, he's always off saving the world.
Yes, some companies have left, but the majority of its members are still there, including many trade associations of which the defecting companies are a part—and some anti-ALEC advocates warn that the diminished influence of more moderate companies has allowed ALEC to shift ever more to the right.
The administration's ad hoc push for space dominance risks upsetting a delicate balance: space now hovers precariously at the brink of weaponization and it would take only one major country defecting from the current system of peaceful self-constraint to drive us into a major arms race in outer space.
With the main opposition party, Labour, facing fierce criticism from Remainers for its ineffective opposition to Brexit, the Liberal Democrats — traditionally Britain's third party — have made huge inroads through their fierce opposition to leaving the EU, attracting defecting MPs and building public support to within only 4 percentage points of Labour.
Defections unlikely Now living in South Korea after defecting in 2006, Han Seo-hee was chosen in her twenties to be part of a North Korean cheerleading troupe after she performed for late leader Kim Jong Il. She says it's unlikely that cheerleaders would defect during such a high-profile visit.
Letter To the Editor: "Defecting From North Korea, Vowing: 'We Are Ready to Die' " (front page, March 26) is a reminder of the unparalleled brutality of the North Korean regime, even as its supreme leader, Kim Jong-un, appears to seek diplomatic glasnost with South Korea, the United States and perhaps China.
But a number of Senate Republicans are now openly defecting from the plan to repeal and delay the replacement of Obamacare largely for pragmatic reasons—disrupting the insurance industry, which makes up a significant portion of the economy, and removing health insurance from 20 million Americans, they wager, will not serve them well.
Obviously there are caveats to be considered such as the possibility of a rogue Republican defecting from Trump or a change in the makeup of the congressional delegations more in the Democrats' favor in the 2020 election, but the reality is that the Constitution makes a third-party presidency very difficult to achieve.
"Except for basic military training two to three months a year, we worked on building apartments or concrete structures for nine to ten months," said Eom, who served 221 years in the army before defecting to the South in 2010, a year before Kim Jong Un assumed power in isolated North Korea.
It took months for the police to crack the case — which came to be known as the Tate-LaBianca murders, named after three of the victims, including actress Sharon Tate — and link them to the Manson family, which by then was falling apart, with members fleeing, defecting, and being arrested for a variety of charges.
Effective and muscular policies focused on reversing the devastation that globalized trade, automation and competition with foreign workers have inflicted on middle and lower income Americans are essential to encourage defecting whites to return to Democratic ranks — and they are also crucial for reviving Election Day enthusiasm among the nation's growing population of minority voters.
Seems to me, the people who benefit the most from this country also have the most hate for it... Anti-American spoiled brats Jay-Z and Beyoncé refuse to stand during our Naitonal AnthemThis is why black America is defecting from the DemocratsRuling class hacks deserve to be exposedRT to show the world their hatred of our country pic.twitter.
The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, however, had until now been unwilling to make what she saw as a doomed commitment: While a simple majority in the House of Representatives is enough to impeach, convicting and removing the president requires the support of two-thirds of the Senate, now controlled by Republicans who show no signs of defecting.
Some say his Facebook posts cost him his life, as it is speculated he was targeted by the regime for his plans on defecting, as a few days before his death, a newspaper in South Korea reported Kim Jong Nam unsuccessfully tried to defect to South Korea several years ago, which was a ripe reason for the regime to finish him.
K-2SO gets the best lines, though the blind Chirrut earned the loudest applause at the film's premiere... The Telegraph: For a while, barely a scene passes in which someone isn't kidnapped and dragged to a rendezvous with the next key character – though the characters themselves, from Riz Ahmed's defecting Imperial pilot to Donnie Yen's Zatoichi-like blind martial artist, are a textured and engaging bunch.
As leader of the largest government party, Di Maio was deputy prime minister, industry minister and labor minister in the government with the League, leaving all three posts to take up the foreign ministry portfolio in the cabinet with the PD. Since the election, more than 30 lower house and senate lawmakers have left 5-Star's parliamentary grouping, some defecting and some being ejected.
A few weeks after Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's October surprise, Republicans again find themselves split between those defecting from his ranks and others pushing to preserve some semblance of party unity.
House Majority Leader Steny HoyerSteny Hamilton HoyerOmar says US should reconsider aid to Israel Liberal Democrat eyes aid cuts to Israel after Omar, Tlaib denied entry Lawmakers blast Trump as Israel bars door to Tlaib and Omar MORE (D-Md.) acknowledged that the defecting Democrats in Wednesday's vote were worried about the political backlash if they didn't join Republicans to secure the ICE amendment in the final bill.
Written by David Hare, "The White Crow" is a portrait of the artist as a young man, an attempt to show the complex array of factors — biographical, psychological, social, political — that led to the moment when the 23-year-old dancer made a decision that would change the history of ballet: Nureyev became Nureyev by defecting from Russia to the West at Le Bourget airport in France in June 1961.
I strained to imagine the Tail Up Goat's groovy young customers defecting en masse to Morton's on Connecticut Avenue, a clubby haunt of Republican establishment types where, almost exactly two years earlier, a veteran conservative journalist munched on a cigar and scoffed while two D.C. nobodies named Corey Lewandowski and Hope Hicks sought to convince him that their new boss, Donald Trump, really was going to run for president this time.
Jeanne Mancini: Sorry, Planned Parenthood, your radical pro-abortion culture war is failing   Planned Parenthood shouldn't get federal family planning grants , anti-abortion lawmakers say HISTORY MADE AT THE CIA:  Gina Haspel was confirmed Thursday as CIA director, becoming the first woman to lead the agency  and overcoming initial Democratic opposition regarding her role in post-9/11 interrogation and detention practices ...  The Senate voted 54-22 to confirm President Trump&aposs nominee, with six Democrats supporting and two Republicans defecting.
As we struggle, then, to understand why Trump's latest scandal has the Latter-day Saints defecting en masse while other conservative groups remain, perhaps we should focus less on Mormon views of women and more on the religion's deep anxieties about the prospect of bad P.R. Having spent the better part of a century branded as a cult of savage, law-breaking libertines, the deeply patriarchal Church has much less tolerance for things that smack of sexual impropriety than it does for gender discrimination.
Per the BBC, other Russian diplomats have been pushing back against the rapidly coalescing agreement among many Western countries that the Skripal poisoning was some sort of revenge killing, part of a widely suspected campaign of actual and attempted assassinations against former Kremlin enemies living in the UK. Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, for example, said that the technology behind the nerve agent could have been brought out of the collapsing Soviet Union by defecting scientists, while Russian envoy to the United Nations Vissaly Nebenzia separately claimed the UK could have staged the attack as a pretext to blame Russia.

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