Volte Face

Tote bidders remain unidentified after government volte-face ❋ Unknown (2011)

A European-wide convention on violence against women was at the point of agreement when our government made a volte-face. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

After the prime minister's humiliating volte-face over the referendum his own MPs this morning are busy quoting him. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In a spectacular volte-face, the Libyan leader came over to the west. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Merkel's volte-face on Friday earned her biting criticism in the weekend media. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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. ❋ Rumman Ahmed (2011)

How would their tea-bagging base react to this volte-face? ❋ Unknown (2010)

NATO member Turkey is already involved in covert ops in Syria, allied with hardcore fundamentalist Sunnis in Iraq, and -- in a remarkable volte-face in the wake of the Arab Springs -- has traded in an Ankara-Tehran-Damascus axis for an Ankara-Riyadh-Doha one. ❋ Pepe Escobar (2012)

It's reminiscent of the extraordinary volte-face about nuclear energy, from classic eco-campaigning territory to a climate change-adaptation technique. ❋ Lucy Siegle (2010)

The Crown Prosecution Service yesterday announced that it would mount a "comprehensive" review of phone-hacking material held by the Metropolitan police in a dramatic volte-face prompted by recent revelations in the courts. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The tariff surely cannot survive the embarrassing volte-face. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the latest skirmish, some brave defenders of free speech have done a sudden volte-face and cheered the banning of minarets in Switzerland. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"You say I did a volte-face, but we are going back many years now," he said. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The move is being hailed as "a stunning volte-face," a complete "U-turn on nuclear energy." ❋ Katie Engelhart (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)