He couldn't get used to his friend's abrupt swings of mood.

Congressional decisions on sending aid to the contras have often been dictated by abrupt swings in Sandinista behavior.

Cassius noted the abrupt swing keenly, filing it away with the other information he had collected.

But within a very short time we came to a place where those turned to the right at an abrupt swing.

Stocks closed narrowly lower in Paris after a series of abrupt swings on the Bourse.

After developing massive Government deficits and pursuing generally conservative monetary policy, Germany, Japan and Britain made an abrupt swing toward balanced budgets in the early 1980's.

Reports in that year on studies of Greenland ice cores suggested that the last interglacial period had experienced abrupt and previously unexpected swings of global temperature.

He is kind to John Dos Passos, despite his flirtation with the left; Tuttleton sees the abrupt swing in his politics as reflective of a larger trend in American letters.

Not long afterward, reports began to arrive concerning an abrupt swing in the tide of battle.