volte-face

How To Use volte-face In A Sentence

• Yet their slide towards obscurity - Liverpool supporters have been starved of silverware - has not only been halted, but looks, on the face of it, to be making a swift volte-face.
• The volte-face was most striking among European investors.
• Merkel's volte-face on Friday earned her biting criticism in the weekend media. Greek debt crisis: eurozone ministers delay decision on €12bn lifeline
• The abject volte-face that inevitably followed such episodes left him ever more in her thrall. THE ENDLESS GAME
• Of course, the other significant aspect of the Bank of Japan's volte-face on equity purchases is that it reflects yet another step in the transformation of central bankers from macro policy makers to asset managers.
• Later, critics were stunned by his apparent volte-face into peace-making.
• Their biggest volte-face has been on the death penalty.
• 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. Indian Retailers to Pitch for Non-Food Multi-Brand Retail
• 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. Letters: Thoughts and reflections on the NHS
• However, the Italian volte-face did not resolve the situation, for a formidable German army remained in the country, and this had to be fought every step of the way to the borders with Austria and France.