Sentences with phrase «defection when»

Even Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder, was shocked by the speed of readers» defection when Kindle downloads outsold hard copies on the website for the first time in 2011.

These «conditional» cooperators play nice with others who play nice, but revert to defection when surrounded by selfish agents.

Not exact matches

He calls the story of massive switching by iPhone fans every year a «false narrative,» noting that the fourth quarter — when Apple's new phones typically are on sale — accounted for just 26 % of customer defections the past few years.

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.

When broken down by religious tradition, certain faiths experienced far more defection than others.

While this use of farce works well, particularly the chaotic triple - phone - line dance in the office when appeasing MPs on «defection - watch», the characterisation is a little thin, which dampens the script's sharpness.

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.

This fits the pattern found in earlier work when Labour were in power — the EU election defections were primarily from them.

The last that was heard about defection at the National Assembly was when a former member of the House of Representatives, Uche Ekwunife, who later represented Anambra Central at the Senate, before her election was annulled by the Appeal Court defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

I want to tackle the spectacle of a mandate-less political defection, where an MP can freely join another party whilst simultaneously thumbing their nose at the people who elected them, when they stood on another party's manifesto.

Addressing House of Representatives correspondents shortly after leaving the chambers, the PDP caucus in solidarity with members of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA and Labour Party, LP said they were heading back to court to seek reinterpretation of the Supreme Court judgment on member's defection especially when there is no division in his or her political party.

This constituency had been a loyal Labour Party seat having returned a Labour MP in all 29 elections since 1918 and specifically since 1922 when MP Wedgwood defected from the highly centrist and compromising Liberal Party at the time to the Labour Party — his was among a great series of defections at this time see for example ex-Prime Minister H. H. Asquith's strong criticism of the Coalition Liberals particularly David Lloyd - George.

After over a month of defections, re-defections, squabbling, plotting, finger - pointing, name - calling, lawsuits, locked chambers, mock sessions, and overall anarchy, the Albany impasse came to a sudden end last night when Pedro Espada returned back into the Democratic fold in exchange for being named the majority leader.

[4] However the Liberal Democrats did gain from a defection, when in December 2013 a Welsh Harp councillor Dhiraj Kataria left Labour to join the Liberal Democrats.

The defection of PDP members, numbering hundreds, was coming at the time when the party had been factionalised in line with crisis rocking the party at the national level and becoming a major boost for the APC in the state.

Democrats are unlikely to support the cuts, and Republican defections raise the possibility of a congressional train wreck and a potential government shutdown when the 2018 budget year begins Oct. 1.

He was given a rapturous reception by Ukip party members when he made his defection announcement.

His best strategy would be to allow Day's veto to go unchallenged but if his Party leader, Chairman Wolfe, decides to play a strategy of defection then Kantrowitz's party loyalty will force him to support Wolfe when his own political self - interest would dictate that he should cooperate with Day in the question of the veto.

Mmamel completed his defection to the APC when he registered in his Agu Obowa Ward II in Ezeagu Local Government Area of the state.

A week ago Cecily Brown made headlines when the former Gagosian artist — one of the many high - profile defections from that mega-gallery over the past couple of years — announced that she was returning to New York to work with Paula Cooper, adding her art's frenetic sex appeal to that intellectually rigorous gallery.

While BP is far from a green company and is not even greenwashing itself like it was in the «Beyond Petroleum» days, this reminds some climate policy observers of the late 1990s corporate defections from the Global Climate Coalition, when companies were no longer denying the urgency of climate change nor the scientific consensus underpinning that urgency.

In March, 2000, however, the campaign suffered a serious setback when the Global Climate Coalition, the main industry lobbying group, suffered major defections.

After all, what is the cost of losing a firm's largest client or of the defection of a profitable practice group... particularly when it could have been prevented?

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.

«Most of the businesses we've spoken with this week are pleased with the steps we've outlined to better protect people's data, and they have confidence that we'll respond to these challenges and become a better partner and company as a result,» the company said in a statement when asked about the advertiser defection.

The company hasn't had a wave - making defection, as Gap Inc. did when Stefan Larsson left the helm of Old Navy in 2015.