Although a surprising reversal of views, it has been put down to the growing belief that countries could not abide by the agreement anyway.

Kuwait's Parliament granted full voting rights to women last week, a surprising reversal: two weeks earlier, a similar measure was defeated.

The only authentic Chinese example in this show is a surprising reversal of stylistic influences.

They obviously found this surprising reversal very funny.

As a result he paired traditionally recognizable forms with surprising reversals of content.

Whatever it is about British politics and the parliamentary system that deliver abrupt and surprising reversals of political fortune seems to be at work again.

In a surprising reversal from last year's defensive-minded draft, the first round was all about offense.

The story goes through some surprising reversals and arrives at a satisfying conclusion, which is also a beginning.

But he also finds an occasionally unsteady, directionless kind of change, with surprising reversals.

Each is built around some error of judgment and a surprising reversal.