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Example sentences for "defections"

Lexicographically close words:
defecated; defecation; defect; defected; defection; defective; defectiveness; defectives; defects; defectu
  1. Here at any rate defections and desertions would be less likely to occur than in the field.

  2. Comte d'Artois--fearing more defections and worse defeats--had thought it prudent to retire.

  3. There would be defections among the socialists, of course; but Pelham prayed that the mass of the movement would stand untouched.

  4. The Ed Cole verdict had reacted against it; defections from the ranks of the strike-breakers were frequent, and the output was hardly a third of that of the summer before the strike.

  5. It was not strange that there should be defections from righteousness.

  6. Defections at the North, and rise of a pro-slavery party, 282.

  7. Successive revolts and defections making it plain that the Sikhs as a nation were resolved on war, Lord Gough collected an army, and crossed the Sutlej in November.

  8. It is not, of course, to the causes of the defections from a creed to which I do not subscribe that my criticism is directed.

  9. He found old Mrs. Butler, though not thoroughly grounded in the extent and bearing of the real testimony against the defections of the times, had no opinions in favour of the Independent party; neither was she an Englishwoman.

  10. This argument concludes with equal force, against joining with any deeply engaged in the gross defections of the time.

  11. Church of Scotland, and maintaining a necessary testimony against the prevailing corruptions and defections of former and present times, as appears from their paper of grievances and joint declinature, printed 1708.

  12. Disaster followed disaster; and as the news reached England, came accounts of those great defections which weakened the force of the "Grand Army," and deranged the places formed for its retiring movements.

  13. With the defections of D'York and Massenbach, then began that new feature of disaster which was so soon to burst forth with all the fell fury of long pent-up hatred.

  14. Instead of drumming up for bourgeois recruits, an idea he declared ridiculous, Beaufond proposed paralysing the resistance by means of clever agents who should provoke defections and disorganise the services.

  15. A coarse lansquenet, incapable of understanding that the more he lowered the men the greater he made this Revolution, so vital despite all defections and incapacities.

  16. Yea, many of us have ourselves cast in lets and impediments, obstructive to the cause, by our defections divisions and disorders against common consent, and precipitances, without common consent even of our brethren adhering to the testimony.

  17. These defections do not discourage me as they do you, Henri.

  18. In the historical portions of this work we have drawn attention to the defections of Nehor, Amlici, Korihor, Zoram and others; therefore we need not go over that ground again.

  19. My blood a witness still doth stand, ‘Gainst all defections in this land.

  20. Towards the end of May, these men put forth a manifesto, in which they declared it to be their duty ‘to publish to the world their testimony to the truth and cause which they owned, and against the sins and defections of the times.

  21. Next, we bear testimony against lukewarmness and unfaithfulness in ministers anent the corruptions and defections the Church was guilty of in the late times, not yet purged and removed by censures, and other ways, as was duty.

  22. The defections and backslidings of the Church are innumerable.


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