Mr Slipper defected from opposition leader Tony Abbot's Liberal Party last year, becoming an independent.
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He defected from Gaddafi's government in the 1980s after serving as Libya's ambassador to India.
When Natalia Makarova defected from the Soviet Union in 1970, she made headlines around the globe.
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The pair defected from the BBC to front the much-heralded show, which replaced GMTV last year.
Next came a stringy youth who said he had just defected from the Syrian army.
Hundreds of Congolese troops have defected from the army, diplomats have told the BBC.
Roque, 40, defected from Cuba in 1992 and became a volunteer for Brothers to the Rescue.
Their ranks were bolstered by soldiers and officers who defected from the Syrian military and security forces.
The opposition Peronists, particularly ex-President Carlos Menem, despise Mr Alvarez, who defected from their party in the 1990s.
He has been a member of the same Web community since the late 1990s, when his group defected from the Yahoo!
In October, several dozen Landwell lawyers defected from the firm's French practice.
Also with the three governing council members was a former Iraqi mission diplomat, Mohammad Al-Humaimidi, who defected from the mission two years ago.
However, the leader of the Democrats, Marian Lupu, a former parliamentary speaker who defected from the Communists, was dismissive of such a deal on Thursday morning.
And British MEP Roger Helmer, who recently defected from the Conservatives to Ukip, said the plans were an "unwarranted interference" into member state matters by Brussels.
Mr. Andar, who hails from the area, said he defected from the insurgency after he witnessed what he said was the Taliban's collusion with Pakistani forces.
Meanwhile, at least five Republicans have defected from the speaker.
Lieberman could, in effect, do for the Republicans what Jim Jeffords of Vermont did for the Democrats in 2001, when he defected from the GOP and gave the Dems the majority.
But the London Mayor - who defected from Labour to form a party of one when he ran for the capital's top job - cannot help but pop up on the conference fringe.
Yet in 1923, when Steichen effectively defected from the art world for a lucrative magazine and advertising career (he would later burn all his painted canvases), the idea of merging art and commerce was sacrilege.
"For now, that is just one of the many Berlusconi announcements which Italians have got used to, " Italo Bocchino, a former Berlusconi ally whose party defected from the movement in a bitter split said according to AP.
The Labour MP defected from the Tories in December 1999 and although his former colleagues in the Conservative Party will not comment publically about his departure, one Tory source told the BBC "few tears will be shed for him".
His support among core Democratic Party voters is weak: he defected to them from the GNP only in 2007.
The Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster, who defected to the DUP from the Ulster Unionists in 2004, said she did not want to see a new party being formed.
Even Kai-Fu Lee, the China superstar who defected to Google and sparked a lawsuit from his former employers at Microsoft, shares a cubicle with two other guys.
As industrial customers haggled and defected, local power firms were forced to raise more revenues from householders.
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