Junior Chinese diplomats used to be sent to serve abroad alone, partly to keep their families as hostages against defections.
Environmentalists have cheered the recent defections from the Chamber, hoping they might weaken one of the best-funded opponents of the climate legislation.
He was a bulwark against further Blairite defections.
Nakhleh said the real defections to watch for would be of any of Gadhafi's sons.
The risk of such a blunt tactic is that it only creates more opposition to the government, as the recent defections in the security forces appear to signal.
The result is that the coalition's parliamentary majority—already eroded by previous defections—has evaporated.
To help attract new recruits and preempt defections, Google Tuesday said it was giving a 10% raise to its more than 23,000 employees.
It didn't help either that AIA executives seemed horrified, raising the spectre of mass defections.
But defections certainly scare the regime.
Months of nationwide protests and a quickening rate of defections from the security forces have loosened the regime's grip, feeble at the best of times, on much of the country.
We have seen a number of defections, "he said."
Thaksin's supporters say Abhisit became prime minister last December only because of parliamentary defections that the military engineered.
So what's Microsoft's plan to attract more small and medium business customers (and halt defections to Google)?
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