Defection used in a sentence

Defection in a sentence as a noun

Some spies do defect, the real defection rate probably isn't publicized by anyone on either side.

For me, it doesn't destroy credibility and legitimacy at all. Nor does it smell of defection.

Any concern about mass defection of paid users to unpaid is unlikely if the service is good and shows trying to take the high road.

Read the fourth bullet: "Use a patent license that encourages adoption and discourages defection.

If they don't see any user defection as a result of these issues being uncovered, then I'm not surprised about their lax stance on security.

Since then it's become regulated heavily globally and the game-theoretic defection has not held.

So, instead of forming a guild to punish defection, which just increases the misery in the world, we institute government agencies to punish polluters directly instead of trying to use boycotts to punish them.

That's a prisoner's-dilemma defection: if everyone is afraid to acknowledge being a hacker when they're talking to journalists, journalists will only ever learn the criminal definition.

I think it's a fascinating and optimistic view of human history: modern market-exchange societies are the outcome of a long process of figuring out how to turn bad-outcome games that encourage defection into positive-sum cooperative ones that benefit everyone.