Examples of about-face

• Yet, in what appears to be another about-face, he writes elsewhere that the paintings are not ' concerned exclusively or even predominantly with potency ' (p. 166).

• Then, in another about-face, she repents and resolves to bury her feelings: her music sinks back once more to the declamatory style of the opening.

• In many respects, this about-face on the part of organized labor is neither remarkable nor puzzling.

• There are several reasons for the government's apparent about-face, all of which have enhanced the leverage of consumer activists and their allies within the policy-making sphere.

• I am sure that the public will judge that outrageous and unprincipled about-face for themselves.

• There is no clearer evidence of that than the complete about-face demonstrated in its so-called reasoned amendment.

• Does she accept that she has done a complete about-face in accepting that added value and not crude league tables is the way forward?

• This was an about-face from an incomprehensible passivity towards vandalism, arson and the plunder of government buildings to brutal physical violence against unarmed citizens, resulting in three suspicious deaths.