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How to use about-turn in a sentence

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Milk producers have recently been campaigning for an about-turn in policy, but without success.
An interesting about-turn also took place at a certain level of the state administration and among certain employees of state bodies.
But this year he has surprised many with an abrupt about-turn because something in his head seems to have clicked into place.
If the Prime Minister doesn't make an about-turn and reverse his stance, his place in history will be compromised.
Marching stiffly across the room he performed a perfect about-turn before slapping his tiny sandalled foot on the clay floor and saluting.
It would mean officers arrive at the station, complete their pocket book and do an about-turn to go straight back out onto the streets.
I suggested a quick about-turn, and started outlining directions for the city centre.
Following the release of their rock-infused third album, It's Never Been Like That, Phoenix performed an abrupt about-turn, going back to the electro-pop groove they first made their name with.
To some extent, this about-turn may be regarded as an inevitable correction of certain earlier overvaluations, themselves based on exaggeratedly optimistic forecasts.
Motorists at Dr Cullen roundabout were doing an about-turn all this week, as Carlovians caught their first glimpse of the town's latest sculpture.
Tewkesbury borough councillors have done an about-turn and withdrawn their support for the county council's controversial one-way system in Tewkesbury High Street.
At this crucial period of their lives they were surrounded by people who, in very many cases, undertook a complete about-turn with regard to their social and political views.
Then, in an abrupt about-turn, Ludovic decided what was missing in his work was the fusion element that had inspired him from the start of his career.
That about-turn was rather confusing, especially as paragraph 78 seemed to assume that there was some sort of explanation behind every interpretative declaration.
This about-turn is everything in its honor and she was right to change her rifle of shoulder, it is a proof of intelligence by the correctness of analysis and for the adaptability of her passion, the music.
So, even if Prof Nandra and colleagues cannot get the SPC to do an about-turn, there's still a possibility their dream will realise its science before we get pictures of those icy moons from Juice.
He compared the central bank's predicament to the one it faced during the mid nineteen-thirties, when it raised rates only to do an about-turn as the economy fell into another slump.
It would also represent an about-turn for the company, which had previously rejected calls by policyholders to force it to demutualise.
Perhaps international pressure became so strong that the Kirgiz authorities had to relent and stop persecuting him, only then to do an about-turn?
Examples from Classical Literature
But having gained it I performed an about-turn and continued to mark time there, whilst surveying the moon-bathed road behind me.
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