Similar words: cast about for, keep a straight face, face to face, without fail, ex post facto, about, labour, see about. Meaning: n. 1. act of pivoting 180 degrees, especially in a military formation 2. a major change in attitude or principle or point of view. v. 1. turn, usually 180 degrees 2. change one's mind and assume the opposite viewpoint.
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1. The administration seems to have done a complete about-face on gun-control.
2. Few observers believe the president will do an about-face and start spending more.
3. Belinda felt bewildered by his apparent about-face.
4. Intel said it is not making any about-face in its strategy.
5. The about-face came quickly, though not easily and not without controversy.
6. An about-face between now and then is possible but not likely.
7. In recent months, Clinton has made a substantial about-face in his drug strategy.
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8. Mr Pandit’s about-face reflects Citi’s continuing need for capital.
9. This past December, Facebook did an about-face on privacy.
10. The most striking about-face has come from John McCain, who played a leading role in promoting cap and trade, introducing a bill broadly similar to Waxman-Markey in 2003.
11. That would entail an about-face for the IMF, which has spent the last year or two arguing that nations needed to make deficit-reduction goal No. 1.
12. It is a major about-face for a man who has long opposed a Palestinian state and supported Jewish settlement in all the biblical Land of Israel.
13. This dramatic about-face perfectly captures conservative opportunism against government: Beat it to the ground and then, when government is obviously needed, blame liberals for not helping it get up.
14. Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto has committed an about-face on policy by telling his ministry to refrain from vouching for the safety of Japanese food.
15. The plan marks a quick about-face for Washington policy-makers, who until recent days had been focusing on building an apparatus to soak up bad assets from banks.
16. It was an about-face for Moyal, a member of the hawkish Likud Party, who has been calling for the army to invade Gaza to end the rocket attacks.
17. Of all the reversals, though, the most destructive in the long run was the about-face of the Communist world.
18. The regents and provost are trying to cast their about-face as a positive move.
19. It rapidly deflated his pompous stance and produced an about-face smart enough to have pleased a drill sergeant.
20. Go walk with the strikers, and you'll start to feel that the strike is less an about-face from July's atmosphere than a continuation of it.
21. Backers of the plan, including banking regulators, housing industry officials and bankers, say the about-face for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) would help both banks and homeowners.
22. Helio was originally conceived as a "power user's carrier," but it did an unexplained about-face and decided to go for the social-networking youth when it launched.
23. Sony declined to specify reasons for the withdrawal, but some in the industry blame overwhelming piracy while others say it was due to a Chinese government about-face.
24. Davies, who is himself a geneticist by training, wasn't too surprised by this about-face: "The information that these companies can give you can change and evolve over time," he says.
25. The Chinese official media cried foul over the Russian about-face, accusing Moscow of playing the same trick on China as it did back in May on the Libyan situation.
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