The Germans tried to turn the situation around by military attacks.

"It took about three years to turn the situation around."

To turn the situation to your advantage you have to make an effort, get some sort of friendship going.

"Things like this risk turning the whole situation on its head."

One hopes that your article will turn the situation around.

He went out, turning the situation over in his mind.

But the new lab has promised to turn the situation around, he said.

I might even be able to turn the situation to my advantage, depending on the events of the next few days.

But we needed her abilities, and she'd turned the entire military situation around.

But teachers sensitive to these issues could help turn the situation around.