In a recent case five Merrill Lynch brokers defected to Smith Barney and Merrill sued.
In January, an assistant coach defected to Washington and three prized recruits changed their minds.
Gen Younes is a former Libyan interior minister who defected to the rebel side in February.
He defected to ITV in 1982 to become one of the original "famous five" presenters on breakfast station TV-am.
Deutsche Bank chief strategist Kenneth Courtis confirmed that he has defected to Goldman-Sachs.
His support among core Democratic Party voters is weak: he defected to them from the GNP only in 2007.
Congo's foreign minister, Bizima Karaha, defected to the rebels, accusing Mr Kabila of failure to run the country properly.
These are the words of the famous spy, Oleg Kalugin, a former KGB colonel who defected to the United States.
Since Mr Dissanayake defected to the United National Front before the elections, he has been one of the president's fiercest critics.
Many of its members have defected to even more militant fringe groups, such as Aryan Nation, which is based in Idaho.
David Cameron has pledged "to work really hard to win back" former Conservative voters who have defected to the UK Independence Party.
BBC: David Cameron pledges 'to work hard to win back' voters
MP, as was his uncle Dingle, though he later defected to Labour.
Many have defected to Mr Sarkozy, Mr de Villepin's chief rival on the right, whose popularity seems to have withstood the current troubles.
Cooley, one of the masterminds behind England's 2005 Ashes success, defected to his native Australia to help Ricky Ponting's men to the 2006-07 whitewash.
His name was Jose Ignacio Lopez de Arriortua, and in 1992 he defected to Volkswagen, with rumors swirling that he had stolen GM secrets.
News of the fighting came as Zairian rebels said more than 300 government troops, including a colonel and three captains, had defected to their side.
CNN: Rebels thrust toward last government-held town in E. Zaire
For Sotheby's, the Ferrari auction is an intriguing move, given that the house's entire auto department jumped ship a decade ago and defected to Bonhams.
Born in Czechoslovakia, she defected to the United States in 1975.
Labour had held the West Yorkshire seat since 1974, except for a brief period in the 1980s when the sitting MP defected to the SDP.
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One of his assemblymen has already defected to the anti-agreement side.
In the past few months some of Mr Medvedev's supporters have defected to Mr Putin's camp, arguing that modernisation is possible under the prime minister's leadership.
He has since defected to UKIP which is fielding more candidates than before - and currently has two councillors, although neither were elected while representing the party.
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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.
And where once Conservative Eurosceptics defected to UKIP, there is now traffic the other way as the high profile defection of one of UKIP's MEPs, Marta Andreasen, proved last week.
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.
Mr Veltroni was particularly shaken last week, when his party colleague in charge of the regional government in Emilia-Romagna, a bastion of the left, defected to Mr Prodi.
And, year after year, the big networks imposed hefty price increases for ads, even as millions of viewers defected to cable, and early zapping technology--the remote control and the VCR--took hold.
In the old assembly several TIM deputies defected to a party set up by the former speaker, Jean Lahiniriko, while a minister, Julien Reboza, joined the Ny Asa vita no ifampitsarana (AVI) party.
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