| Twenty years later, in an astonishing volte-face, its members now stand for election. |
| The work shows a complete volte-face from his previous music. |
| It marks a dramatic volte-face by the extremist regime and suggests that the leadership now comprehends the scale of the US military threat. |
| These four factors coalesced during 1948 and led to a reassessment of policy and, finally, to a volte-face. |
| Such a volte-face as this was not only palpably unjust, it was altogether too nimble a bit of gymnastics for Duplay to appreciate. |
| 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. |
