What's the difference between defector and deficit?

Defector


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If I don’t do everything by the book, what hope is there for the other defectors I know who want to go back to North Korea?” he said.
  • (2) Security agents have been visiting the families of defectors and telling them that it is safe for their loved ones to return, a Reuters investigation found last year.
  • (3) Yemen conflict: 'This war has killed everything that was beautiful' Read more “Based on the efforts of some friendly nations to reach a humanitarian ceasefire, during which the aggressive blockade is lifted and trade ships are allowed to reach Yemeni ports, and the path is opened for humanitarian assistance, we declare our agreement to the humanitarian ceasefire that begins on Tuesday,” said Sharaf Luqman, a spokesman for Yemeni army defectors who have allied with the rebels.
  • (4) "That's what the defectors are telling us," said Sheikh Tawfik Abu Sleiman, leader of one of the Aleppo brigades.
  • (5) On 27 December, Abdulrahman cited 148 violent deaths in Syria for that day: 49 rebels, 42 soldiers, three defectors, and the remaining 54 likely to be a mix of noncombatant civilians and unidentified rebels: "It isn't easy to count rebels because nobody on the ground says 'this is a rebel'.
  • (6) In a determined attempt to cover up the damage the two defectors caused, Carey-Foster added that senior British intelligence and defence officials should tell the US they could give them “no confidential information” about the two spies.
  • (7) His dependence on Tory-defector Shaun Woodward was emphasised as the Northern Ireland secretary sat beside him at Wednesday's prime minister's questions.
  • (8) Eighteen persons got cancer before invitation and six defectors as well.
  • (9) North Korea says the UN move is based on trumped-up allegations by defectors and backed by the United States and other countries seeking to overthrow its ruling regime.
  • (10) Updated at 11.01am GMT 8.59am GMT A very interesting tweet about police defectors from BBC’s Duncan Crawford.
  • (11) Authorities have also used the attacks by defectors to support their official narrative: that the unrest in Syria is the work of armed gangs and terrorists rather than true reform-seekers.
  • (12) Ukip's existing general election candidate in Clacton-on-Sea said he had no intention of standing aside for the Conservative defector Douglas Carswell – and even said that the Tories had been making overtures to him.
  • (13) Minutes after Ali Mohsen's defection, tanks belonging to the republican guards, an elite force led by the president's son Ahmed Ali, rolled into the streets of Sana'a, setting the stage for a standoff between defectors and loyalists.
  • (14) Assisted by Saunders, a British bureaucrat, 007 is tasked with protecting a key asset – in the book, British agent 272, in the film, Soviet defector Georgi Koskov – from a waiting assassin.
  • (15) According to testimonies from workers and defectors, labourers from the reclusive state said they receive almost no salaries in person while in the Gulf emirate during the three years they typically spend there.
  • (16) Could it be that the Tory tactic of frightening voters with the SNP worked and that enough “Conservative” Ukip defectors switched back at the last minute, whereas “Labour” Ukip defectors didn’t?
  • (17) Tonight [Monday] was not a particularly special night other than the fact that a number of my colleagues came together and formed a view collectively that I should be the new chief minister of the NT.” There were also reports on Tuesday that CLP defectors Alison Anderson and Larissa Lee had returned to the party to boost its numbers after resigning in protest a year ago.
  • (18) Warren Truss has asserted the National party’s demand for a greater share of cabinet positions as the deputy prime minister pushed back at criticism of his secret talks with Liberal defector Ian Macfarlane .
  • (19) Defectors’ groups estimate there are up to 65,000 North Koreans working in about 40 countries.
  • (20) Possible Tory defectors are likely, however, to hold back for the moment and focus on stepping up the pressure on the prime minister to adopt a tougher stance in his EU membership negotiations.

Deficit


Definition:

  • (n.) Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some common eye movement deficits, and concepts such as 'the neural integrator' and the 'velocity storage mechanism', for which anatomical substrates are still sought, are introduced.
  • (2) However, this deficit was observed only when the sample-place preceded but not when it followed the interpolated visits (second experiment).
  • (3) The study examined the sustained effects of methylphenidate on reading performance in a sample of 42 boys, aged 8 to 11, with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
  • (4) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
  • (5) Since the first is balked by the obstacle of deficit reduction, emphasis has turned to the second.
  • (6) Definitive neurological deficits occurred in 0.09%, transient deficits were observed in 0.45%.
  • (7) They also said no surplus that built up in the scheme, which runs at a £700m deficit, would be paid to any “sponsor or employer” under any circumstances.
  • (8) Agarose-albumin beads may be useful for removing protein-bound substances from the blood of patients with liver failure, intoxication with protein-bound drugs, or specific metabolic deficits.
  • (9) Eighty-eight patients (97%) had a stable fixation and 77 (85%) had resumed preoperative activity or were working but with a residual deficit.
  • (10) The family history and associated anomalies were recorded and particular attention was paid to temperature gradients and neurocirculatory deficits with respect to band location.
  • (11) On the clinical level, the disorder is characterized by a memory encoding deficit.
  • (12) Electroretinographic (ERG), morphometric and biochemical studies on retinas from monkeys or rats reveal that moderate level developmental lead (Pb) exposure produces long-term selective rod deficits and degeneration.
  • (13) In the subgroup of children under age 5 years at the time of diagnosis, 10 of 11 showed neuropsychologic deficits, and eight of 11 had white matter changes.
  • (14) Natural killer (NK) cell activity was assessed in the peripheral blood of 20 patients with growth hormone (GH) deficiency due to a hypothalamic deficit of GH-releasing hormone (GHRH).
  • (15) Plasma renin activities (PRA) and aldosterone concentrations increased in parallel over a wide range of plasma volume deficits produced in unanesthetized rats by extravascular administration of polyethylene glycol (PEG) solution.
  • (16) The serum of these patients caused mainly a fall of the bactericidal activity of the leucocytes, and this was caused more frequently by a deficit of the opsonizing factors than by the presence of inhibitor.
  • (17) Subtle cognitive deficits in Inferential Reading Comprehension were detected when Reading Vocabulary was at or better than a twelfth grade level.
  • (18) The pattern of neuropsychological deficits across HIV-1 states was similar to those found in cohorts of homosexual men.
  • (19) In Study 4, attributional biases and deficits were found to be positively correlated with the rate of reactive aggression (but not proactive aggression) displayed in free play with peers (N = 127).
  • (20) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.