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Example sentences for: about-face

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The temporary tax cut, USAT explains, is an about-face for Prime Minister Hashimoto, who had recently staked his political reputation on reducing his country's budget deficit.
Now, given that the Times ran hard and often with the congressional report and the line it took, does this piece represent some sort of about-face?
Then they do a bizarre about-face and deliver a paean to the bliss of domesticity.
The WP front-pager on this states that for five years, the U.S. Army "brushed aside" these very allegations, and the LAT's front effort calls the military's current stance an "abrupt about-face."
The USAT and LAT leads cover Iraq's about-face on inspections: Having previously promised access to its palaces, Iraq now says access will be denied to U.N. inspection teams, and will be offered only to "experts and diplomats."