| It marks a dramatic volte-face by the extremist regime and suggests that the leadership now comprehends the scale of the US military threat. |
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| Then, off to my right around 10 metres, the shark bent, twisted and went volte-face on a sixpence, gathering speed as it cruised back toward me. |
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| Twenty years later, in an astonishing volte-face, its members now stand for election. |
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| This was perceived by the mass of the electorate as a volte-face if not a betrayal of electoral promises. |
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| The ardent crusade to preserve wilderness was a stunning volte-face from Americans' previous deliberate destruction of it. |
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| Later, critics were stunned by his apparent volte-face into peace-making. |
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| The work shows a complete volte-face from his previous music. |
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| Many attempts have been made to explain the volte-face but, in the absence of good evidence for Becket's state of mind in 1162-3, they remain highly speculative. |
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| The best explanation for his volte-face was the willingness of Cardinal Beaton and the queen mother, Mary of Lorraine, to confirm him as heir apparent. |
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| Now – all of a sudden – it's a volte-face. |
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| The film's release prompted a mass volte-face, however. |
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| This Russian move has come at a time when political analysts were expecting a Russian volte-face on the Syrian issue. |
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| It leaves out only the actual reason for her abrupt, 11th-hour volte-face. |
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| Even to her fellow-actors, the emotional volte-face between Moore's offscreen ordinariness and her onscreen extraordinariness can be confounding. |
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| Tyagi said Monday that it is the habit of the BJP to first create communal flare ups through their speeches, and then do a volte-face to get into the public's mind space. |
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| It was charitable of right-wing Labour MP Frank Field to excuse this volte-face by saying that Corbyn and McDonnell were still inexperienced in the art of leadership. |
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