Sentences with phrase «defection from»

In another defection from Aussie reality TV, Mel B has been announced as the new judge of America's Got Talent, replacing Sharon Osbourne.

Stare decisis's most prominent cost is binding judges to interpretations of law that they find unpersuasive, raising the fundamental question of when and why such a restraint on judges» decision - making autonomy is justified.30 In an ideal world, stare decisis would insulate valid principles of law from arbitrary and unprincipled revision without entrenching «bad» precedent against further review.31 In reality, stare decisis hinders defection from both appealing and unappealing precedent.

The legal market is fairly stable, Stetsenko reports, and he points to AstapovLawyers» transformation into Eterna Law and the recent defection from CMS to DLA of dispute resolution Partner Olga Vorozhbyt as the only recent developments of note.

The USAA's withdrawal is the latest in what has become a small - scale defection from Heartland after it launched a billboard in Chicago featuring Ted Kaczynski (better known as the Unabomber) along with the words, «Do you still believe in global warming?

Zorita's defection from the global warming establishment comes after the shocking news today that one of the scientists employed at ground zero of what has been termed «ClimateGate» has suggested disbanding the United Nations climate panel, the IPCC.

According to Matt Bellamy, the record «explores the journey of a human: from abandonment and loss of hope, to indoctrination by the system to be a human drone, to eventual defection from the oppressors.»

Titanfall is the product of a few years of development by Respawn Entertainment, founded by Jason West and Vince Zampella after their defection from Activision and Infinity Ward, a studio they also founded to create the Call of Duty series.

I think there would be a mass defection from Delta elites if they implement a revenue based frequent flyer program.

Langley's overbearing manner created constant friction and would eventually cause a key defection from his team.

This is also where Vanko's hatred of Stark comes from — their fathers had been a team following the senior Vanko's defection from Russia.

All Access, Season 10, Episode 1: After a failed defection from Cuba, Erislandy Lara was kicked off the national boxing team and banned from training.

Does require the UKIP vote to go to Torries plus defection from Labour to Both the Torries and the LIb Dems and prehaps a low turnout in the Labour strong hold heavily BME wards.

Home» Politics» Atiku regrets Osoba's defection from APC; calls PDP's Transformation Agenda a failure

The talk took place not long after Sen. Jose Peralta's surprising defection from the mainline Dems to the IDC created an outcry against the breakaway group.

There are strong indications that there would be a mass defection from the Lagos state chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to another political...

The APC national chairman further assured them that Atiku's exit from the party would not lead to massive defection from the APC as being insinuated in some quarters in the country.

[1] In Welsh Assembly elections the Welsh Conservatives were the third most supported party, having been overtaken by Plaid Cymru in the 2016 election; although following a defection from Plaid Cymru to Labour, and a defection from UKIP to the Conservatives, they are now the second largest party in the Assembly.

There are strong indications that there would be a mass defection from the Lagos state chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to another political party ahead of the 2019 elections due the purported endorsement of Governor Akinwumi Ambode and Senator Oluremi Tinubu for another terms in office.

Now, the downward spiral for Ragusa and Queens Republicans continued on Monday with Koo's defection from the party.

An Abuja - based political analyst, Mr Ephraim Audu, says defection from one political party to another is permissible in a democracy as it helps it...

MP Mark Reckless's defection from the Tories to UKIP prompted the contest - the second by - election caused by a UKIP defection in just over a month.

Levy's successful fundraising is a critical part of his appeal to Republicans since his highly publicized defection from the Democratic Party in mid-March.

PDP can not claim to be upholding the Nigerian constitution if PDP lawmakers defects en - mass to the opposition party while turning blind eyes to the defection from opposition parties to PDP.

Not shy about bringing a little elbow into the game, Rivera is taking on the incumbent Democratic senator in the adjoining district, Jeff Klein, over his defection from the rest of the conference and leadership of a five - member rump faction that caucused and shared power with the Republicans in the past two years.

In a series of tweets via her Twitter handle,, the ex-lawmaker, who represented Ikorodu Federal Constituency, Lagos State, however said: «The rate of defection from PDP to APC is shameful.

It is unclear how many of Brooklyn's 16 votes (besides the 6 committed progs) will necessarily follow Seddio, but his defection from the Garodnick camp changes the calculus.

That prized position became available when Mark Reckless made a shock defection from the Tories, but local Conservative activists didn't want Mackinlay chopping and changing constituencies.

Such behavior at least prior to the year 1000 was looked upon as a defection from the Christian ideal.

Unfortunately, similar notions have gained a foothold among priests themselves, leading to a wholly unprecedented defection from the priesthood of possibly as many as 100,000 men since the second Vatican Council.

Editorials anguished over Protestantism's defection from the cities and deplored the expansion of «racial ghettos.»

Any defection from high sacramentalism is gleefully identified as matter - hating, body - denying, salvation - by - cognition, capital G, gnosticism.

Hebrew language and literature, Jewish history, modern Jewish theology and philosophy, even undue absorption in the study of the biblical text — all are proscribed as evidence of defection from Torah - true Judaism.

The doctrine of the coming of the Spirit presented in the farewell discourse was designed to keep this defection from becoming final (16:1).

Where defection from God's Word in doctrine or life imperils the family fellowship and with it the whole congregation, the word of admonition and rebuke must be ventured.

No sooner had they overcome the blow of defection from the Springfield group than they were confronted with another schism.

- Catholic self - identification is a defection from the Gospel.

But tragically they have persisted in seeking their own ways and hence are in defection from their intended nature — they are «sinners.»

When Paul Lehmann in an often quoted sentence said that «God's purpose for human life is to make it and keep it human» he was putting the point in an admirable fashion — which helps to make contemporary people grasp both their high dignity as humans and their defection from that possibility.

At this point it is sufficient to say that for the moment we recognize that we are not what we might be, that human existence is in defection from its proper fulfillment, and that we are in need of the wholeness of life which will put us on the right path and enable us to become more and more what God intends for us to be.

The sixth Christian assertion tells us that human existence is in defection from its proper potentiality, from the true self, from God, and from other human beings.

It has almost been as if we humans, with our limitations and in our finitude, not to mention our obvious and tragic defection from right alignment with the divine intention for the world and for us, were to insist that until and unless we are given what we regard as due recognition and the security of our own survival in an individualistic sense, we shall refuse to take our place and play our part in the creative advance of the universe.

(6) Humanity is sadly in defection from its deepest intentionality and unable to achieve proper fulfillment; in Christian language, «We are sinners.»

Hijab's statement read that, «I announce today my defection from the killing and terrorist regime and I announce that I have joined the ranks of the freedom and dignity revolution.»

I am happy to count among my own friends a rather remarkable number of men of high intellectual distinction who have returned to the full Christian outlook after years of defection from it, and I should say that in practically every case the renewed hospitality of their minds to Christian truth came about through their awakening to the essential untenability of the alternative positions which they had been previously attempting to occupy.

Not a single defection from their conviction can be tolerated.

With Democrats united in opposition to the plan, Republican defections from a few traditionally Democratic - leaning states could be enough to torpedo it in the House.

And, finally, defections from traditionalist to modernist faiths are apparently more than offset by movement in the other direction.

Allowing that these defections from Catholicism may have been overestimated, Jenkins says the rapid increase in conversions is nonetheless phenomenal, and in some countries — Guatemala, Chile, Brazil — Pentecostals already represent a powerful numeric bloc.

I would go further: in the absence of such historical controls, we are lured into just the kind of dubious suppositions — for example, about allegedly increased defections from oldline to conservative — that have plagued recent discussions.

Interestingly enough, social issues such as abortion and gay rights were not central to Mainline defections from Bush in 1992.