How To Use Volte-face In A Sentence
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The tariff surely cannot survive the embarrassing volte-face.
Humiliating climbdown surely spells apocalypse for Horsemen's tariff
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Ms Stern was forced out after she voiced strong internal objections to the volte-face and the deal, calling it "extortionate", "outrageous" and "against the public interest".
Archive 2008-01-01
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A mass of sentimental and passionate fans gathered outside the headquarters of the Italian Football Federation in Rome as the national coach announced the squad, hoping that their pleas would prompt a last-minute volte-face.
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They must rank as two of the most remarkable volte-face of all time, two sides desperate to confound stereotypes which have been self-fulfilling and self-perpetuating for as long as any of us can remember.
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Part of the perplexity arises from a sudden onrush of doubt: did we misread the earlier texts, overlook the clues that would explain this surprising volte-face?
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The move is being hailed as "a stunning volte-face," a complete "U-turn on nuclear energy.
Katie Engelhart: Political Fallout: Will Germany Go Nuclear-Free?
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This was perceived by the mass of the electorate as a volte-face if not a betrayal of electoral promises.
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The work shows a complete volte-face from his previous music.
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Twenty years later, in an astonishing volte-face, its members now stand for election.
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No, really...' said Hat, this volte-face taking him by surprise.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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The day's events were a remarkable volte-face.
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It's reminiscent of the extraordinary volte-face about nuclear energy, from classic eco-campaigning territory to a climate change-adaptation technique.
Just because GM is gaining popularity doesn't make it right
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Or if anyone could contrive to return in beggarly disguise after ten years' maritime battering and see off all his swaggering rivals with a deliciously unexpected volte-face, Vick would be your man.
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Many attempts have been made to explain the volte-face but, in the absence of good evidence for Becket's state of mind in 1162-3, they remain highly speculative.
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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.
Rupert Murdoch facing BSkyB defeat as parties unite in call to drop takeover
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It does look like a major political volte-face.
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In 1986 he made a very public and dramatic political volte-face from Left to Right.
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He was excellent, as the pompous prig, but one could not really believe in the volte-face at the end, when humanity and love creeps up on him in the shape of an Indian princess.
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We were thrown into confusion by his volte-face.
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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.
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The volte-face was most striking among European investors.
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Merkel's volte-face on Friday earned her biting criticism in the weekend media.
Greek debt crisis: eurozone ministers delay decision on €12bn lifeline
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The abject volte-face that inevitably followed such episodes left him ever more in her thrall.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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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.
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Later, critics were stunned by his apparent volte-face into peace-making.
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Their biggest volte-face has been on the death penalty.
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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
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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
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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.
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Part of the perplexity arises from a sudden onrush of doubt: did we misread the earlier texts, overlook the clues that would explain this surprising volte-face?
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And this is one of the most striking aspects of this case: how it has forced the government into a volte-face over its public attitudes to doctors.
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The ardent crusade to preserve wilderness was a stunning volte-face from Americans' previous deliberate destruction of it.
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If the Cons do a volte-face and actually...*actually* put out policies to do national good, then kicking, screaming or otherwise, they were forced into it by the opposition parties standing up and booting them in the ass.
It's prorogation.
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This position is a volte-face for Great Britain.
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Since an earlier Government volte-face in 2003, clubs have been free to employ professional overseas players who have come into the country under the Working Holidaymaker Scheme.
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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
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You say I did a volte-face, but we are going back many years now," he said.
Manchester United have post-Sir Alex Ferguson plan, says David Gill