0 a complete change of opinion or behaviour:
This is the senator's second about-face on the issue.
1 a complete change of direction, opinion, or way of acting
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.
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