A minority government may be formed as a result of a " hung parliament " in which no single party commands a majority in the House of Commons after a general election or the death, resignation or defection of existing members.

On the 8 May 2004, a defection of several Centre Party members to form a new party, the Social Liberal Party, over a row concerning the Centrists ' " no " stance to joining the European Union changed the allocation of the seats in Riigikogu.

At the same time as the remaining members of the former South Division were being secured in the fold, there was another defection brewing in the north.

Philby was eased out of office and quietly retired in 1953 after the defection of his friends and fellow members of the " Cambridge spy ring " Donald Duart Maclean and Guy Burgess.

A critical element in arriving at that agreement was the defection of one of the members of the RF delegation, much to Smith's disgust.

In the fall of 1973, after critical newspaper articles by Lester Kinsolving and the defection of eight Temple members, Jones and Temple member Timothy Stoen prepared an " immediate action " contingency plan for responding to a police or media crackdown.

New Zealanders saw the defection of key members of Team New Zealand to Alinghi as an act of disloyalty to their home countryunderstandable against a background of strong nationwide public support for Team New Zealand that they saw as representing their country rather than just representing the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron.

The absence of an existing industrial union structure within the Canadian OBU resulted in the defection of 20, 000 members of the Lumber Workers Industrial Union ( LWIU ).

The Islington Labour Parties were badly affected by the defection of members and elected public representatives to the Social Democratic Party but, when the dust had settled, Hodge had emerged as council leader, in 1982, a post which she held until 1992.

Meanwhile, on Streaker, several crew members secretly plan a mutiny and defection while the officers plan to salvage parts from the Thennanin wreck.

The FLP had been hurt by leadership bickering in the wake of the coup, and the subsequent defection of a number of its high-profile members from the ethnic Fijian community, including Tupeni Baba, the former Deputy Prime Minister.

The Czechoslovak affiliate was weakened by the defection of its Czech members in December, making the party a largely Sudeten German group while that community was becoming increasingly attracted to the Nazis.

Occasionally, KGB assassinated the enemies of the USSR abroad — principally Soviet Bloc defectors, either directly or by aiding Communist country secret services — The killings of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists members Lev Rebet and Stepan Bandera by Bohdan Stashynsky in Munich in 1957 and 1959, as well as the unrelated slayings of emigre dissidents like Abdurahman Fatalibeyli ; the surreptitious ricin poisoning of the Bulgarian émigré Georgi Markov, shot with an umbrella-gun of KGB design, in 1978 ; The defection of assassins like Nikolai Khokhlov and Bohdan Stashynsky severely curtailed such activities however, and the KGB largely gave up assassinations abroad after Stashynsky's defection, although they continued assisting the Eastern European sister services in doing so.

In The Fifth Elephant, when faced with the defection of most members of the Watch, Carrot puts his ( plain and battered ) royal sword on a desk in plain sight and reminds Watch members that they had taken an oath to the King, and that the King had not relieved them of it.

Levy mistakenly believed he could draw a mass defection from the Likud of parliament members, and such a disaster would lead senior party members in the Central Committee into a panic that would topple Benjamin Netanyahu.

In May 2005 the Liberal Women's Caucus criticized some opposition Conservatives members of making sexist remarks regarding Belinda Stronach's defection to the Liberal party.

Also, Kaas's conduct was controversial among his fellow party members, who saw his sudden and lasting move to Rome as an act of defection and his involvement in the concordat negotiations as treason to the party.

As a matter of fact, members of the Democratic Left faction, which defected UDN to form the Brazilian Socialist Party ( PSB ), characterized the party as a free market advocate, citing this as one of the reasons for the defection.

Elizabeth Bentley, who functioned as the Perlo group's main contact with the Soviet intelligence, told the FBI after her defection, " I would state that Victor Perlo represented this group in meetings with me more often than other members of the group, Fitzgerald about four or five times .....".

The fortunes of the Cloud Club began to decline in the 1950s and 1960s with the defection of some members to the nearby Sky Club in the Pan Am Building ( now MetLife Building ) and Pinnacle Club in the Socony-Mobil Building, which were both newer and bigger.

Eventually, Rhyno, Angle, and Christian were all part of the Alliance ; although Angle was in it as a mole, and outside of a feud between Christian and Edge ( who stayed with WWF ) over the Intercontinental title, as well as Angle defeating Rhyno for the United States Championship ( prior to his defection ), then losing it to Edge, the members were never involved in any of the same spots within that angle.

They had the element of surprise, and this was also aided by the defection of Arminius from Roman ranks prior to the battle.

In addition to de facto renunciation through apostasy, heresy, or schism, the Roman Catholic Church envisaged from 1983 to 2009 the possibility of formal defection from the Church through a decision manifested personally, consciously and freely, and in writing, to the competent church authority, who was then to judge whether it was genuinely a case of " true separation from the constitutive elements of the life of the Church ... ( by ) an act of apostasy, heresy or schism.

" A formal defection of this kind was then noted in the register of the person's baptism, an annotation that, like those of marriage or ordination, was independent of the fact of the baptism and was not an actual " debaptism ", even if the person who formally defected from the Catholic Church had also defected from the Christian religion.

The Roman Catholic Church likewise treats it as any other act of renunciation of the Catholic faith, although for a few years, from 2006 to 2009, it did note in the baptismal register any formal act of defection from the Catholic Church, a concept quite distinct from that of presentation of such a certificate.

In other cases, defection from the norm can pose a real risk, particularly if the international environment is changing.

His defection from the Ido movement set it back even further.

A Hungarian defection from the Axis threatened to undermine the entire German war effort because Romanian oil from the Ploieşti oil-fields passed through Hungary on the way to Germany.

* Cambridge Spies, a 2003 four-part BBC drama, recounts the lives of Philby, Burgess, Blunt, and Maclean from their Cambridge days in the 1930s through the defection of Burgess and Maclean in 1951.

Megara's defection from the Spartan dominated Peloponnesian League ( c. 460 BC ) was one of the causes of the First Peloponnesian War.

In 1524 Martin Luther was called to Magdeburg, where he preached and caused the city's defection from Catholicism.

After his defection, Alcibiades claimed to the Spartans that the Athenians planned to use Sicily as a springboard for the conquest of all of Italy and Carthage, and to use the resources and soldiers from these new conquests to conquer the Peloponnese.

The defection of Georges Yambot from the African Socialist Movement ( MSA ) to Youlou's Union Démocratique pour la Défense d ' Intérêts Africains ( UDDIA ) helped Youlou become Prime Minister in 1958.

His lifework was based on his conviction that the Church was founded by God and entrusted with the task of embracing all mankind in a single society in which divine will is the only law ; that, in her capacity as a divine institution, she is supreme over all human structures, especially the secular state ; and that the pope, in his role as head of the Church, is the vice-regent of God on earth, so that disobedience to him implies disobedience to God: or, in other words, a defection from Christianity.

Following his defection from the Republican party, Ogden retired from politics and moved back to his native New York.

Apostasy (; ( apostasia ), ' a defection or revolt ', from ἀπό, apo, ' away, apart ', στάσις, stasis, ' stand, ' standing ') is the formal disaffiliation from or abandonment or renunciation of a religion by a person.

All connote an intentional defection from the faith.

Early Communist units often formed by defection from existing Kuomintang forces, keeping their original designations.

She was selected as the Labour candidate in Leicester East constituency at the 1983 General Election following the defection of the sitting Labour MP Tom Bradley to the Social Democratic Party.

He was selected to contest the Southampton Itchen seat at the 1983 general election following the defection to the Social Democratic Party of the sitting Labour MP Bob Mitchell.

He was selected to contest Stockton North at the 1983 general election, securing the nomination following the defection of the sitting Labour MP Bill Rodgers who was one of the original gang of four who set up the Social Democratic Party in 1981.

On 22 January 1982 he resigned the Labour whip and he subsequently ( in March 1982 ) joined the defection of moderate Labour MPs to the newly founded Social Democratic Party.

Mayhew's defection to the Liberals was to serve, along with Dick Taverne's decision to leave Labour, as the forewarning of the split within the Labour Party that would occur in 1981 with the rise of the Social Democratic Party.