How To Use Reversal In A Sentence

  • The professor has deciphered the word 'Nesseta-ciled' by reversal: it is 'delicatessen' ... The Heart Of A Dog
  • On appeal to the CAFC, the court stated that the applicants "misapprehended" the BPAI's decision, noting that none of the rejected claims contained the limitations which prompted the reversal. Archive 2008-04-01
  • Parking for the venue, the Palestinian people have made announcements to persuade, but no enforcement power to prevent reversals .
  • Ironically, despite a global reversal in the world's financial fortunes, the ultrarich continue to grow (grotesquely) richer. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hemingbrough are struggling to come to terms with life in the top division although the signs are that they are improving despite their reversal at Stockton and Hopgrove.
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  • Therefore, to excise it would not imply any reversal of Britain's opt-out.
  • The highest conception we can form of heaven is the reversal of all the evil of earth, and the completion of its incomplete good: the sinless purity -- the blessed presence of God -- the fulfilment of all desires -- the service which is _blessed_, not toil -- the changelessness which is progress, not stagnation. Expositions of Holy Scripture
  • Yet the realist vision shifts to the phantasmagoric, as spectator and spectacle undergo carnivalesque reversals and interpenetration, in their darkest and most violent manifestations.
  • Owing to these reversals the linear and telic structure of the narrative is attenuated as the pursuer becomes the pursued, the hunter the hunted, the victimizer the victim, the will to kill the will to die.
  • Even though their HDL levels decreased, these patients showed reversal of their heart disease using state-of-the-art measures such as quantitative coronary arteriography, cardiac PET scans, thallium scans, and radionuclide ventriculography in randomized controlled trials published in leading peer-reviewed journals. Cholesterol: The Good, the Bad and the Truth
  • Now the two tech icons are running neck and neck -- a reversal of fortune the bloggerati are inclined to ascribe to a combination of Steve Jobs 'genius and Microsoft's flatfootedness. Microsoft Slumps As Apple Trumps
  • The company suffered a great reversal of fortunes when public taste changed.
  • ‘Just Folks’ is yet another Roth reversal: FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps was the actual (if benign) means of rusticating urban boys in the 1930s.
  • In a kind of reversal of the paedomorphosis hypothesis, the hallucinated gods disappeared from adult minds first, then were pulled back earlier and earlier into childhood, until today they survive only in the Binker or little purple man phenomenon. The God Delusion
  • -- A selective allosteric potentiator of the M1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor increases activity of medial prefrontal cortical neurons and restores impairments in reversal learning. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • But even to call this reversal a metaleptic metonymy would be claiming to know more than one can about the radically discontinuous nature of this reversal. Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History
  • The best illustration of this strange reversal is the curious fate of the Downing Street memo.
  • We could experience total protonic reversal and the end of … everything. Think Progress » Colbert and O’Reilly, face to face?
  • The term flip-flop, meaning a political reversal, has been a fixture in popular American parlance at least since the 1880s. NPR Topics: News
  • Other topical therapies new to the anti-aging scene include plant kinins which appear to have both anti-irritant and photoaging reversal properties with no perceived irritation.
  • One must look back to the early 1930s to find such a dramatic reversal.
  • Miller's particular approach, the warmongering approach, is self-evidently reminiscent of the Bush/Cheney years, in which any domestic reversal was followed by an elevated level on the colour-coded risk-assessment wheel. Frank Miller and the rise of cryptofascist Hollywood
  • Since the Administrator had relied on their assessments, the error was prejudicial and reversal was required.
  • I didn't think you'd understand the word "reversal. Maggie Van Ostrand: Politically Indirect: Interpreting Politician-Speak
  • Near the end, there is a sudden reversal of our ideas about the matron and her husband, but it is both maudlin and unconvincing.
  • In many marriages there has been a complete role reversal with the man staying at home and the woman going out to work.
  • All they can achieve, they assume, is the preservation of a clean trial record for appeal, and the reversal of the trial court ruling.
  • Also, the dynamics of the geared engine were helping induce wing warping and aileron reversal so the crew labored to put the other engine back on the racer.
  • David Copperfield's lament is given here with my further typographical highlights on the kinds of anaphoric returns and alphabetic reversals by which Gass is intrigued: From Notes on 'Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian'
  • Flumazenil should be administered in a series of small injections so reversal of sedation can be controlled.
  • This was the revelation that brought reversal pathways to center stage.
  • As a result, millions of workers have suffered an unprecedented reversal in their social position.
  • Even nonpublic reversals have been cause for recrimination.
  • The San Ramon, Calif., company said Friday that the appeal, called a petition for cassation, "details multiple legal grounds for reversal of the January appellate court decision. Chevron Appeals Ecuadorean Ruling
  • The government suffered a total reversal of fortunes last week.
  • The recessive 1930s brought the reversal of this globalism while a new one was later formed during the Cold War.
  • Although Buddy did not know the word "sententious," the people he described were the embodiment of it -- licensed bores, as all aborigines seemed to be (so he implied), who had a proverb or a biblical passage for every reversal in life. Beard
  • The dramatic reversal illustrates the extent to which the media's polling results are simply measuring the impact of their own coverage.
  • If I brighten the original first, and then solarize it, I get reversal effects elsewhere in the picture. My black sun
  • In the end, the reversal of fantasy and reality propels the narrative mystery of Mulholland Drive, and sustains the central character's obsessive - but gratifying - worldview.
  • A minimum of four justices — a near majority of the court — is required to grant certiorari, meaning that when certiorari is granted, at least a near majority of the court is likely to be leaning towards reversal even before the court hears the case. The Volokh Conspiracy » In Defense of the Ninth Circuit:
  • When children end up taking care of their parents, it is a strange role reversal indeed.
  • It is also possible that the same machine could be both a left hand and right hand machine subject to simple reversal of a printhead ‘module’ (unless a bi-directional printhead is available).
  • As with any highflying stock, though, a few investors are actively betting on a reversal of fortune.
  • But a reversal of traffic flow, introduced in November by the city council, has got traders fearing for their future.
  • There has been an extraordinary reversal in the parties' positions on Europe.
  • The priest then did some more incanting, which led to a reversal of the long howl that had summoned forth the gods and now, in reverse, sent them back to their places, and ended the ceremony.
  • The tragic hero's reversal inspires pity if it is due not to wickedness of character but rather to some hamartia, by which Aristotle seems to mean some error in action, sometimes blameworthy and sometimes not.
  • Methods: The present study utilized mice forced swimming test , tail suspension test and reserpine reversal test.
  • In Reversal of Fortune this question is asked by Sunny von Bulow (Glenn Close) speaking from within the coma that still enwraps the real Sunny today. The Big Chill In The Upper Crust
  • The most amusing thing about the period of my engagement to Karen was the degree of role reversal involved.
  • It’s a complete reversal of reality, but this jujitsu is what has animated the white Southern mentality since before the Civil War, and the idea that its present exponent is a conservative Republican Senator from Tennessee is nothing surprising. Matthew Yglesias » “Minority Rights” and the US Senate
  • The cooks, seamstresses and other small investors are stunningly vulnerable to reversals.
  • In a shocking reversal of the traditional "woman scorned" formula, it was Pugach who came unglued when Riss broke up with him -- and the subsequent fallout made headlines across the country. Spring 2009 Film Series!!!
  • Acceptance of originalism, it is charged, would necessitate the reversal of crucially important landmark decisions and thereby provides a reduction ad absurdum of originalism.
  • NEW YORK (AP) - Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg heads toward a third term bruised by a surprisingly close re-election battle that exposed lingering anger over his reversal on term limits and his prodigious campaign spending. Despite Spending $100 Million On Campaign, Bloomberg Pulls Off Narrow Victory
  • And Aitkin seems to be destined to be our cox, in a strange reversal of tradition.
  • We have suffered a couple of minor/temporary reversals.
  • There's already been a boatload of bloviation expressed on the recent reversal of the ban on loaded firearms in our national parks, some of it sensible but most of it (predictably) bordering on hysterics. Locked & Loaded in Parkland
  • In many marriages there has been a complete role reversal with the man staying at home and the woman going out to work.
  • In a stunning reversal of laissez-faire and a repudiation of the American devotion to free and competitive markets, the NIRA and the National Recovery Administration NRA, which put the law into practice, suspended all federal antitrust laws and created cartels of businesses in every major industry that—instead of market forces—decided how much products would cost, how much workers would make, and how much companies would produce. A Renegade History of the United States
  • Clearly, such a reversal of the current course would not be achievable overnight.
  • Similarly, in the chapter on opera buffa's social reversals, the author enumerates a number of later contributions in a footnote, but she does not incorporate them into her discussion.
  • The reversal of fortune illustrates how investment banks are struggling to find their footing, and sources of profitability, in the postcrisis regulatory and market environment. Costly Rush Away From Risk
  • We have suffered a couple of minor/temporary reversals.
  • That crossed my mind but I will continue to think the diety is mulling over it and may cause a reversal (not that I care one way or another - it is a legitimate operation) Protest Over New Planned Parenthood Office at cvillenews.com
  • Economists said the increase in foreign direct investment could also help offset the impact on the country should there be sudden reversals of short-term inflows. Indonesia Offers Tax Incentives to Spur Growth
  • In fact, as de Man goes on to say, "the metaphor is not a metaphor since it has no proper meaning, no sens propre" (RCC 201) and could more properly be called "the metonymic reversal of past and present that rhetoricians call metalepsis" (RCC 201). Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History
  • In her case there was a reversal of the usual facts of nature -- (_I say facts_, not _laws_): the dreams of most people are more or less insane; those of Lady Alice were sound; thus, with her, restoring the balance of sane life. The Portent & Other Stories
  • Copper mounted a strong reversal on Wednesday through the closely watched $3.20 level and then powered higher on Thursday and Friday to re-challenge previous highs of the recent move off the June lows. US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha
  • He had his share of policy reversals, mainly at the hands of Democrats in Congress.
  • Over 150 wolves, from eight packs, now roam Yellowstone's forests and river valleys, attesting to a radical reversal of fortune for the maligned predator.
  • Townsley's goal and then Ged Brannan's penalty, two minutes into injury time, represented a dramatic reversal for an unfortunate Dunfermline side.
  • It is an impassive reversal of the expected hospital-drama roles to which the movie attaches no overt irony.
  • This reversal provides the framework for an analysis of demographic change, but the trend has been uneven both spatially and socially.
  • The higher the valency of the counterions, the more significant is the reversal of the effective charge of the aggregates.
  • This represents an apparent reversal of previous US policy.
  • Sweden saw a reversal of strong earlier declines in inequality and in the United Kingdom a century of near-stability in earnings dispersion gave way to a sharp increase.
  • There is no remonstrance that carries its message so clearly as a reversal order which upholds due process.
  • Even in the earliest stages of new growth, complete reversals in budding directions of zooids are evident.
  • The tong is comprised of main tong, manual reversal valve, hydraulic motor, auxiliary tong, spring hanger and adjustable spring.
  • Chemo kills EVERYTHING – acupuncture works on falutly meridians that are blocked and has produced remarkable reversals on tumours: case in point my mother had an adenoma the size of a grapefruit on her thyroid – dr. s said we’ll have to cut out everything and you’ll have no voicebox – acupuncturist is reducing the tumour without surgical intervention. The post-surgery Kuato update : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas
  • For the city attorney, such a public reversal of legal advice is rare.
  • This reversal of policy encouraged out-relief to poor persons in their own homes and the cost of relief rose with frightful rapidity until it reached in 1818 the sum of £7,870,000. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • Changes in the personnel might see a partial reversal of that, allowing up to 30 states to introduce legislation banning or limiting abortion.
  • The company's financial problems were only a temporary reversal.
  • Some people looking after elderly parents have trouble with the role reversal involved.
  • There is nothing intrinsically wrong with politicians doing an about-face, even when the reversal is as stunning as this one.
  • Liam states that pinholes do not occur with reversal processing of lith film, but we included a water bath anyway since it doesn't take long.
  • Traders "overshot" on the dollar's weakness and "we're now seeing a reversal of that," said Jeffrey Young, head of North America foreign exchange research at BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
  • We measured the reversal potential following each of a series of conductance increments and calculated the reversal potential for each increment assuming they were independent channels.
  • In both years of this study, the highest ice speeds were observed following reversals of direction.
  • The reversal in the Supreme Court turned on the application of s.2 of the Charter.
  • Perhaps China will commit some egregious deed that spurs reversal of the present momentum, but now that the military point is made, the more likely avenue of recourse is diplomatic work to mitigate recently shored-up alliances involving India, Japan and South Korea. China's Military Buildup Won't Stop The Defense Bear
  • From Plato to Jung, and from Jung to Hillman, there is a reversal of perspective about personifying, which is after all the process of giving body to a concept. Plato and Jung
  • The Financial Times says the move represents a complete reversal of previous US policy.
  • Simply put, we are most impacted by economic downshifts, changes in the job market, and reversals in federal funding allocations.
  • The more often these lines converge at or near a single price level, the more significant and therefore reliable they become in determining potential pause or reversal points.
  • Using the very same second screen indicator that is used prior to entering the trade, the short-term trader can use intraday occurrences of market reversals to exit the trade.
  • When she was seen there seemed to be no good reason for this strange reversal in her clinical course.
  • In fact, the reversal potentials were independent of the direction of voltage ramps.
  • The Financial Times says the move represents a complete reversal of previous US policy.
  • To summarize my previous comment, the LT data does not track surface temperature at all well – the LT temperature trend is essentially flat from ~1978 to ~1998, then there is the large 1998 El Nino spike and reversal, and then a ~0.2C step-up which has stayed ~flat for the most recent ~5 years. Trip Report « Climate Audit
  • George W. Bush has become the biggest nationaliser since Lenin, far outreaching the reversals of free-market reforms seen in Latin America. Free markets are dead. Long live New Capitalism
  • A move from so-called mark-to-market, or fair-value, accounting would be a reversal for the investment banks, particularly Goldman Sachs, which has lauded the approach for its ability to assist in risk management. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
  • The American Civil Liberties Union said that a regrettable reversal under political pressure will strike a blow to American values and the rule of law and will undermine America's credibility.
  • The agreement also marks a reversal for the political parties, which previously rejected the idea of a constituent assembly.
  • I don't believe we'll ever see a reversal of the trend towards bloatware in software.
  • Reversal can, of course, be ‘corrected’ by the use of a second mirror, so that the resultant image is of a reflection reflected.
  • With new regimes settling in at all three levels of government, there is a pronounced opportunity, and certainly a public appetite, for the reversal of regressive trends around the arts.
  • The case has been relisted six times beginning back on March 19, suggesting that either a summary reversal or a dissent from denial of cert. is in the works. The Volokh Conspiracy » Summary Reversal Watch in Jefferson v. Upton
  • It was this that led to Descartes's fundamental error - the reversal of the basic truth that the first operation of the mind has only real things for its object.
  • It is precisely this dynamic - the surprise reversal - that foregrounds the underlying assumptions of this statement.
  • They showed reversal of their heart disease using state-of-the-art measures such as quantitative coronary arteriography, cardiac PET scans, thallium scans, and radionuclide ventriculography in randomized controlled trials published in leading peer-reviewed journals. Ask Gary Taubes a question | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
  • Their subsequent revival and belated acceptance into the rock fold was one of the period's more surprising reversals.
  • The stage victory marked a reversal of fortunes for the 26-year-old who lost the prologue when his chain came off close to the finish.
  • Stone flakes and stegodon bones have been found here in presumed association in deposits located just above a reversal of the earth's magnetic field dating to 730,000 years ago. Ancient Seafarers
  • They root for the hero, exult at his successes, are anxious for his triumph, and suffer at his reversals.
  • It is also believed that an increase in sunspot activity can have an affect on pole reversal.
  • It still basks in the quick reversals McDonagh is overfond of, and the characters are even more inconsistent.
  • Industrial unrest and cheaper imports played their part in the company's reversal of fortunes.
  • Variations or reversals in the meanings of words are not of uncommon occurrence in the ordinary growth of languages; but it is not often that we find, as in this case, the whole meaning of a term intentionally and gratuitously changed by the leaders of philosophical thought. Thoughts on Religion
  • Three years on and Europe has come to experience a spectacular reversal of fortune in the economic realm.
  • But there have been some stunning White House reversals, like retreating from the claim the government has the authority for warrantless wiretapping.
  • What are we to make of the many examples of hermaphroditism and sex - role reversal, of intersexed deer and pouched male kangaroos?
  • Discuss how the reversal of the conventions makes for a comic effect and how the comedy genre uses a parody of other genres by referring to current comedy films or TV programmes the class may be viewing.
  • Anglophobia is always liable to reversal, hence that fairly common spectacle, the pacifist of one war who is a bellicist in the next. Notes on Nationalism
  • They are not invariant under the T (time reversal) operation of quantum field theory, as has been experimentally verified in the decay of the neutral kaon. Arrow of Time FAQ
  • Outside and opposed to normal social life, liminality is also given ritual expression in licence, disorder, and role reversal.
  • There was, nevertheless, one positive effect in this reversal in popularity.
  • Compared to the results of the national elections held last September 22, the reversal is no less dramatic.
  • After three trials on separate charges arising out of the original events, resulting in three guilty verdicts, three appeals court reversals, and one acquittal, Cortez was finally convicted of murder.
  • Of course this is true, but you did not merely put a name to it; you called rhetorically, for an action in response to it, and then you used this reversal of the objectifying gaze/logic–which I will say again is not a way out of a patriarchal view of the body–to justify that call. Phyllis Schlafly: Punishing Spousal Rape Like Rape Is Malicious
  • Their subsequent revival and belated acceptance into the rock fold was one of the period's more surprising reversals.
  • Will the United States need to adopt highly limited war aims — a reversal of the Powell Doctrine of committing overwhelming force to win decisively? Superiority Complex
  • The present model adds a new twist to the discussion of how motor reversals are brought about.
  • Risk reversals – or the price difference between two equivalently out of the-money options – potentially provide an alternative market indicator of perceived risks in carry trades. Fx Mr | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
  • First, psychoanalysis provides insight into the meaning of the reversal of the gender roles in the plays.
  • “This is why the Shroud is a negative that shows a mirrorlike reversal of the way right and left appear to the naked eye,” Bucholtz said. The Shroud Codex
  • The Financial Times says the move represents a complete reversal of previous US policy.
  • The result is that primary literature is becoming subordinated to criticism, a reversal of priorities.
  • We want the reversal of metrification of everything else! Eight for 2008
  • The reversal of the image by soluble haloid salts, such as bromide of potassium, was then dwelt upon with experimental demonstration. Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
  • In a reversal of the result between the clubs' first elevens, Sheriff Hutton Bridge had by far the better of a draw at Acomb where the home side crawled to 97-8 in the face of Bridge's 196-5.
  • Such law suits as have been decided unrighteously shall be re-investigated by the monarch: [in case of reversal of the judgment] the judges and the winning party shall be amerced in double the amount of the fine decreed in the suit. Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya
  • Bromwich and other officials stressed that the policy announced Monday was not a reversal of its previous plans not to grant waivers known as categorical exclusions for deepwater projects. Obama Allows Chevron, Shell And 11 Others To Resume Offshore Drilling Without Further Review
  • “Half a dummy reversal and half an endplay,” observed Oscar the Owl. VICTOR MOLLO’S BRIDGE CLUB
  • The converse perspective drawing is a prime design method of using new product 's photo-view to get the outline in the reversal imitating design of photo-view .
  • Habit reversal is a behavioural therapy to reduce scratching as much as possible.
  • This reversal would have been practically impossible under Gats.
  • This raised the question as to how long the global economic system could sustain such borrowings from its largest member and what the consequences would be of a sudden reversal.
  • The Carnival tradition of wearing masks, role reversal, anonymity, and general license to misbehave is still common throughout the Catholic world. Chinelo Dancers And The Original Hip Hop
  • Appendectomy, colectomy, all types of hernia procedures, and colostomy reversal accounted for the next most prevalent errors in classification.
  • One hospital transfer is accounted to each of the following procedures: circumcision, cystoscopy, hemorrhoid ligation and vasectomy reversal.
  • However, there are no indications that the social response reversal system is impaired in psychopathic individuals.
  • As often happens, when the market gets too bullish or too bearish, conditions become ripe for a reversal.
  • For arrogant unilateralists, it is a dramatic reversal.
  • ISHARES INC MSCI EMERGING MRKT (EEM); that's what I call a bullish reversal, buy and use $23 as your stop. iShares Trust FTSE China (FXI); will sell my stake and buy more on a pull back. Pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
  • This startling reversal of fortune is instructive of the way in which modern management techniques are revitalizing Chinese business.
  • Last night O'Sullivan suffered a similar reversal, just as he had done in the 1997 final against Steve Davis.
  • Because once you put aside the repeated miracle comebacks, the five-game winning streak, the personal mission of faith, the reversal of conventional football wisdom and the fact that he's soaked his critics with a Gatorade tub, you're left with the fact that his name is undeniably fun to say. Tim and Tiger Win the Weekend
  • The first four episodes build in mystery as we try to piece together recurring motifs of corpses, shared food, reversals of power.
  • The leg wounds were closed as soon as possible before the reversal of anticoagulation, without drainage, and were wrapped with a compressive bandage.
  • This is the apex and reversal of the 3 phases which preceded it; within the context of their saeculum framework of historical perspective. Howe and Strauss Envisioned another Civil War era : They may be right
  • In a reversal of a decision made nearly two years ago, Iowa State's new campus dining services will be directed and managed by the residence department.
  • The one historic reversal of this ratchet was Ronald Reagan's 1981 tax cut, which increased revenue through economic growth.
  • When using very high bromide developers, it may be necessary to use a 200 to 250 watt light bulb in order to get good reversal effects.
  • For older Americans, reversal of the brain shrinkage that occurs as people age is just one benefit of greater physical activity, according to research published in the latest issue of the Journal of Gerontology -- Medical Sciences (Vol. 61A, No. 11). Donald Duck's Uncle Duke
  • Time course of reversal of anticoagulant effect of warfarin by intravenous and subcutaneous phytonadione. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • In a perverse reversal of all her hopes and dreams, she had been granted the exact opposite of her heart's desire. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
  • Advocates of performing the vascular repair prior to lower extremity fixation argue that reversal of ischaemia in the limb is the most important factor in limb survival and should take precedence.
  • Multiple factors have contributed to this seemingly irrevocable reversal of fortunes.
  • Potential effetcs of corticosteroids during septic shock Activation of IKB -  Inhibition of NFk -  Correction of a relative adrenocortical deficiency Reversal of adrenergic receptor desensitization deficiency Inhibition of inducible iNOS Hemodynamic improvement Decrease in the dosage of catecholamines Decreased trascription for proinflammatory cytokines, Cox-2, Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The case has been relisted six times beginning back on March 19, suggesting that either a summary reversal or a dissent from denial of cert. is in the works. The Volokh Conspiracy » Summary Reversal Watch in Jefferson v. Upton
  • Failure to do this is the only reason for a reversal of the spin from one direction to another.
  • It is a clash of civilizations, not economic systems, and it is likely to be long, nasty, and punctuated with harsh reversals.
  • Another hazard of being a former president, it seems, is that you feel the force of your successors' policy reversals with all the acuteness of personal slights.
  • The Younger Dryas Event is a climate reversal preceded and followed by abrupt warming during the deglaciation period about 11,000 years BP, according to the conventional chronology.
  • The present data showed blood pressure reduction and no reversal of the hyposensitivity of the baroreflex by acute losartan treatment.
  • In many marriages there has been a complete role reversal with the man staying at home and the woman going out to work.
  • Popular indie Apple developer conference -- Chicago-based "C4" -- canceled $AAPL - full reversal on $GS right after they took my stop out? Stock Market Analysis at DeepMarket
  • In a reversal of normality, the Eiger had stared through a telescope at her.
  • But give the image consultant some credit, even if her psychic abilities didn't help prewarn that his reversal on Afghanistan ( "I was against set time lines before I was for them!") would result in some blow-back. Liblogs.ca latest blog entries
  • While this undoubtedly has played a role in the Vice President's recent reversal of fortune, we feel that it is more than mere coincidence that his declining poll numbers have been coincident with the sharp fall in the NASDAQ.
  • Some view these reversals as the harbinger of a new and bleak era in which the inevitable consequence of late capitalism – characterised by post-industrial economies, technological breakthroughs that generate fewer jobs and flexible labour markets spawning massive inequalities – is a plateau in the living standards of a large swath of workers. Why the 'squeezed middle' is here to stay
  • However, the positions will represent a short-term reversal of an employment trend that saw the loss of 111,000 public sector jobs in the three months to June, against 41,000 created in other parts of the economy. Royal Mail inundated with Christmas job applications
  • The reversal, or "backflip," has caused Mr. Rudd much embarrassment. Carbon Reality, Again
  • This role-reversal is central to both of Stanley's feature-length narrative films.
  • In a surprising reversal of roles, a third of the children even give their parents a regular allowance!
  • The evidence shows that the apparent relaxant effect of smoking only reflects the reversal of the tension and irritability that develop during nicotine depletion.
  • Semantic inversion, is the reversal of the meaning of a term.
  • The Baron then puts out a hit on the very assassin he hired, leading to a complete reversal of sides.
  • The Kilmovee, Urlaur, Kilkelly, and Glann and surrounding areas have now benefited from the work of past years by devoted people wishing for a reversal of the rural population decline.
  • In many marriages there has been a complete role reversal with the man staying at home and the woman going out to work.
  • Moreover, sharp reversals in market sentiment can put intense pressure on currency parities and shut off a country's access to financial markets.
  • This calls for complete reversal of former security doctrine based on strategic military considerations.
  • It's a power reversal that a few weeks ago seemed far from the rebels' grasp, as Gadhafi's forces fended off repeated attacks around the capital city. World leaders urge Gadhafi to surrender
  • Bolton tries to discredit those who previously criticized the "intelligence community" because of what he characterizes as a reversal in position. "Rarely has a document from the supposedly hidden world of intelligence had such an impact as the National Intelligence Estimate released this week."
  • These scenes of reading the letter are intercut with shots of her mother, in a reversal of the primal scene, attempting to eavesdrop on the conversation.
  • The geologic record indicates that reversals in magnetic polarity happen quickly and frequently, relative to the pace of organic evolution.

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