volte-face

• “You say I did a volte-face, but we are going back many years now," he said.”

  The Guardian: Manchester United have post-Sir Alex Ferguson plan, says David Gill

• “Future Group's Pantaloon Retail (India) Ltd., which needs funds to pare its debt of more than 40 billion rupees ($775 million) and keep its stores expansion going, is likely to be the hardest hit by the government's volte-face.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Indian Retailers to Pitch for Non-Food Multi-Brand Retail

• “The move is being hailed as "a stunning volte-face," a complete "U-turn on nuclear energy.”

  The Huffington Post: Katie Engelhart: Political Fallout: Will Germany Go Nuclear-Free?

• “The tariff surely cannot survive the embarrassing volte-face.”

  The Guardian: Humiliating climbdown surely spells apocalypse for Horsemen's tariff

• “John BaxterBerkhamsted, Hertfordshire• Nick Clegg and his Lib Dem ministerial colleagues must be dangerously naive if they think that a quick volte-face, with the imprimatur of Clegg's "personal" authority, on the key ingredients of the health bill, is going to wash with their outraged foot soldiers.”

  The Guardian: Letters: Thoughts and reflections on the NHS

• “In an extraordinary volte-face, David Cameron will disown the media tycoon by leading his party through the lobbies to urge him to drop the bid.”

  The Guardian: Rupert Murdoch facing BSkyB defeat as parties unite in call to drop takeover

• “It's reminiscent of the extraordinary volte-face about nuclear energy, from classic eco-campaigning territory to a climate change-adaptation technique.”

  The Guardian: Just because GM is gaining popularity doesn't make it right

• “Merkel's volte-face on Friday earned her biting criticism in the weekend media.”

  The Guardian: Greek debt crisis: eurozone ministers delay decision on €12bn lifeline

• “In the latest skirmish, some brave defenders of free speech have done a sudden volte-face and cheered the banning of minarets in Switzerland.”

  Archive 2009-12-01

• “A European-wide convention on violence against women was at the point of agreement when our government made a volte-face.”

  The Guardian: Letters: A century of progress and problems for women

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