Action sports in recent years have emerged as a great hope for sports television as nearly all of the major team sports have suffered a significant defection of viewers.

Although two sailors eventually jumped ship, including Sten Mohr, who is now BMW Oracle's backup helmsman, there were no other significant defections.

If there are significant defections, it could start a snowball effect for Kiel.

There have been no significant defections of Iraqi forces.

But even though the fund's assets have fallen from more than $4.8 billion at the market peak to $3.47 billion now, it has yet to see significant defections.

But any significant defections by Democrats in Congress might put added pressure on Mr. Clinton to accede to Republican budget proposals.

Mr. Giuliani, who will need significant Democratic defections to win in November, shied away from partisanship.

We were not finding significant defection to US Airways, but we did find more trial of the Acela train.

One of the first aircraft from the R-1 series that went into service (Werknummer 360043) was involved in one of the most significant defections which the Luftwaffe suffered.

Yet the fast-expanding embrace of tax software by do-it-yourselfers seems unlikely to be causing significant defections from preparation professionals.