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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.
Then they do a bizarre about-face and deliver a paean to the bliss of domesticity.
Still, Caterpillar's about-face was not sharp enough for the UAW rank and file, which focused not on the 110 who would be coming back to work but on the 50 who would not.
Such objections first arose in 1994, when the Clinton administration made a sudden about-face, declaring it would "delink" Chinese trade policy from human rights.
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?