volte-face

This is the story of one man's volte face.

Though her mind didn't fully comprehend this volte face, the body she occupied did.

Soon, however, the government did a volte face and decided to blame the Left for the destruction of the library instead.

But now I am going to attempt a volte face.

That does not diminish the need to explain and justify the complete volte face by the Home Office.

Such consistency could be achieved only by a complete political volte face, as the administration itself changed in 1770.

Andrew Warren questions the motivation behind the Government's volte face regarding building new power stations.

"I'd like to have you tell me why this volte face since Wednesday night?"

No doubt it was hard enough to accept the volte face involved in embracing an element of property tax.

This volte face made me feel that things were very bad indeed.