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  • Guerrilla Marketing comments: volteface. book said ...

    Clearex Red 2009

  • Livemint Mumbai attack: US, western pressure worked Why did Pakistan do a volteface on the Mumbai attacks?

    India News Digest: TCS Plays Safe 2009

  • Caesar's Fall would certainly take a higher place among his works than it does at present, when its effect is somewhat amputated and its meaning threatened with incoherence by the author's apparent volteface in the Second Part.

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • Caesar's Fall would certainly take a higher place among his works than it does at present, when its effect is somewhat amputated and its meaning threatened with incoherence by the author's apparent volteface in the Second Part.

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • The papers are explaining the stunning PFP volteface on the asset bill as Soong, currently running for Taipei mayor as an independent -- he asked himself for a leave of absence, and then granted it to himself -- revenging himself for remarks by Taipei Mayor and KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou earlier

    Archive 2006-10-01 Michael Turton 2006

  • The papers are explaining the stunning PFP volteface on the asset bill as Soong, currently running for Taipei mayor as an independent -- he asked himself for a leave of absence, and then granted it to himself -- revenging himself for remarks by Taipei Mayor and KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou earlier

    Soong and Shih together at last Michael Turton 2006

  • How someone can execute such a stunning volteface, only heaven knows.

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  • Ibsen consented to do this, _Caesar's Fall_ would certainly take a higher place among his works than it does at present, when its effect is somewhat amputated and its meaning threatened with incoherence by the author's apparent _volteface_ in the Second Part.

    Henrik Ibsen Edmund Gosse 1888

  • Il faut faire volteface, et vivement, franchement, tourner le dos an moyen age, a ce passe morbide, qui, meme quand il n'agit pas, influe terriblement par la contagion de la mort.

    Lectures on Modern history John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868

  • This volteface has, of course, to appear spontaneous and the hand of the titular rulers remain invisible: the Convention, as usual with usurpers, is to simulate reserve and disinterestedness.

    The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860

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