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Sentence Examples An aggressive u-turn and associated hand signals to other drivers followed. Speaking to the Gazette on the day after the meeting, the artist was philosophical about the council's u-turn. Perhaps most surprising, the turning circle is tight enough to tackle a u-turn on a mini roundabout in one smooth sweep. Amidst much screeching of breaks and the acrid smell of burning rubber, Cameron executed a high speed u-turn. When they reached the Will Rogers Park, just after Sunset, he did a u-turn at high speed into oncoming traffic. His campaign on behalf of veteran Gurkhas, the Nepalese soldiers who serve Britain, forced a government u-turn in April. The decision to ban TBAs will be seen by some as a u-turn by the government, which, not long ago, appeared to acknowledge their value, taking steps to regulate their practices, give them uniforms and offer them training. Their findings show instead that recombination, an important DNA repair process, has a self-correcting mechanism that allows DNA to make a virtual u-turn and start over. Salford council has made a U-turn over plans to crack down on grave ornaments. His apparent U-turn on Europe, driven it seems by ambition, destroys his personal credibility. Leeds City Council is to perform a dramatic U-turn and drop plans to sell its 9.55 million shares in Leeds United. This year, angry motorists forced Westminster into an embarrassing U-turn over parking on New Year's Day. They claim the council has made a U-turn, leaving residents unsure whether the link road will be a local distributor road or a by-pass. The public inquiry could be called off, however, if councillors accept the officers' advice and do a U-turn on their previous decision. Opposition parties attacked the U-turn last night, calling it a concession to commercial interests. Public anger has forced members of the powerful council cabinet to do a U-turn over plans to slash the budgets of the town's community centres. Executive members of the district council made a U-turn on the issue last Tuesday night. The Government was last night accused of a U-turn in last-minute changes to legislation for disabled people. Making a U-turn, she drove a block before turning into the parking lot of an older apartment building. Faith slammed on the brakes, and made a U-turn in the middle of the empty street. Show More Sentences He turned the flashers on just before he made a U-turn, heading back in the direction he'd come. He made a U-turn and pulled me over and kept me on the side of the road for half an hour. He offered me a wave before doing a quick U-turn and exiting the parking lot. Sighing again, and taking a deep breath, she turned the car into a U-turn and drove in the opposite direction. It was another struggle to join the mainstream traffic and make the U-turn to head home. The flag came down and five cars raced down the road, made a U-turn and came racing back. I made a U-turn on the taxiway and headed back to the line to get it checked. But once you're significantly off course, you can't just simply do a quick U-turn to get back on track. The robbers then did a U-turn in the road and drove back in the direction of the Post Office. The van did a handbrake U-turn and was soon headed back to Surfer's Paradise. The rear car was hit, and the front car sped off and made a U-turn, but it too was hit. Parents in Adlington are celebrating after governors made a unanimous U-turn over controversial plans to rename a school. The Executive did a U-turn in its plans for motorway tolls more than two years ago, largely due to pressure from business. A vicar has done a dramatic 11 th hour U-turn over controversial plans to set up a mobile phone mast on top of a church tower. Fears of a repeat of collection chaos have led Colchester Council refuse chiefs to consider a U-turn on their ambitious recycling policy. Education chiefs have performed a dramatic U-turn on plans to radically redraw Bradford's school calendar. He was forced into a U-turn after a furious reaction to his plans not to travel to Normandy. They have made a complete U-turn and totally turned around to the fact that this is a high priority. However, the company has now made a U-turn on the proposed closure. Unlike other systems that stroppily tell you to make a U-turn, it calmly and almost invisibly replots the route. Show More Sentences A U-turn only came about when the Evening Advertiser contacted a local MP, who fired a letter off to the Foreign Office. We made a U-turn, a taxi hit us, then the car went on fire but it didn't explode. His U-turn on a referendum on the European constitution is a sign of his weakness. Why is it that I always get stuck in traffic jams on dual carriageways, where it is impossible to do a U-turn, when I am dying for a wee? The spot I selected for my U-turn happened to be right next to a yard sale so I climbed out for a browse. The car made a U-turn, the men in the car yelling and gesturing angrily at me. Turning a very sharp bend of what seemed like a U-turn, I only caught a passing glimpse of it. After receiving payment, the taxi driver pulls to the left and executes a U-turn, and hits a motorcycle coming the other direction. I got really good at getting lost, then making a U-turn and getting oriented again, thanks to the prolific road and bike path signs there. My first streetcar trip had one other close call, a sport-utility vehicle hauling a trailer that made a U-turn right in front of us. And if I take the wrong road the car has such a tiny turning circle I can do a quick U-turn and head back the other way. They pulled the elegant wagon on a slow pace along for a block and then made a U-turn beneath the Palmetto overpass. Asaro climbed into the passenger seat of that car, which then cruised past the FBI dig on Liberty Avenue and made a U-turn. It blew itself out eventually, but not before it forced his government into a U-turn on fuel duty. This weekend, the inner cabinet is preparing the ground for the latest U-turn, which they hope will square Souter and Cardinal Winning. It was good to see the Government do a U-turn on that matter. The change in course is the fourth major U-turn the Chancellor has made since his omnishambles Budget in March. Sansak had tried to avoid the checkpoint, making a U-turn in front of the oncoming car. But this is not the first and may not be the last time that the chameleonic politician makes a U-turn. The company has now completed the U-turn in its strategy which has seen it rowing back from its grand plans to become a multinational multi-utility. Show More Sentences She was naked in Money Train and U-turn, the Oliver Stone movie. Ministers have performed a U-turn over plans which would have meant swingeing cuts for England's children's hospitals, reports the Telegraph. But now, having noticed that Mr Hague is armed only with a popgun, it has executed a U-turn. But work was halted after a public outcry, and in what would be a major U-turn by the authority, members are expected to give the go-ahead for the berms to be ripped up. With a U-turn so spectacular it was positively political, David Archer changed his mind about selling the family farm for a mess of pottage. The library was facing the axe in a council bid to save cash, but the public fought back to force a U-turn and the library lived to fight another day. He suddenly takes a U-turn and begins to attack Cartesian epistemology, the very basis of research from which this impressive body of scientific knowledge comes. A LEISURE centre threatened with demolition has taken a step towards safety, after it emerged councillors are considering a U-turn on funding. Caught in my imagining, I miss the U-turn of the escort truck and am jolted by the roaring four-by-four off-roading as it swerves around our vehicle. Barring a policy U-turn, this will lead to an additional 42-50 billion tonnes of carbon being belched into the atmosphere in the coming years. This bend, in Yunnan, is a place where the river makes a U-turn from flowing south to flowing north-east. Regardless of the cause, an effective solution to minimize far-side angle crashes is the restricted crossing U-turn intersection. It is the only strategy in town, but you can almost hear the spluttering indignation from the many Tories who remain unreconciled five years after the party's U-turn. When is it courage to stay the course and when is the brave decision necessary to make a U-turn? There are times when it may give directions, such as a U-turn, that may be prohibited in some locations. The U-turn is highly uncharacteristic of a leader known for his ruthless demonstrations of power. In other words, keep a way out and if you cannot get through, be wise enough to be able to make a U-turn. Which traffic sign allows you to make a U-turn on a highway in Finland? If we do not go as far as the Commission, then we would be making a political U-turn, for did we not indicate in 1998 that we wanted to go all out for maximum public health protection? Doctor Who creator Steven Moffat has revealed he's not averse to a U-turn and is bringing much-loved UNIT scientist and the Doctor's biggest superfan Osgood back from the dead. Show More Sentences I might point out that what she did on Tuesday was a U-turn of unique and unprecedented rancidness, and that no one could have seen it coming. That seems to be a striking and definitive U-turn for the Chinese telecoms giant, which has tried arduously to sell its networking kit to American telecoms operators. The only hope is to put pressure on the government to make a U-turn. Make a U-turn for KB Home's latest four-bedroom Mc-Mansions. In five hundred feet, make a U-turn onto Grad School Boulevard. This represents a U-turn on their plans to axe the service from next month as part of a national shake up of air mail flights. The under-fire Minister appears to have been forced into an embarassing U-turn after the move caused public outrage. Rattled by the way American firms have begun to get an armlock on new business based on multimedia and the Internet, the authorities have done a U-turn. However, the government was forced to carry out an embarrassing U-turn after it emerged that the cost of fitting the necessary catapults and arrestor gear – the so-called cats and traps – would be prohibitively expensive. The U-turn came, as it had to come, last summer: the government gutted HIPs of their central feature. This evisceration turned the packs into an initiative in search of a rationale. But Clr Dodds said that, after initially saying they would co-operate, Garganey had done a U-turn and were no longer playing ball. Now a series of events – and a policy U-turn by Berlin – is raising the international profile of the massacre of Herero and Namaqua peoples and bringing justice for their descendants a little closer. The people should avoid applying sudden brakes while taking U-turns, must watch back view mirrors, use proper indicators before entering in a U-turn, he added. That announcement was quickly followed by a U-turn of police chase proportions and now Sir Alex seems unshiftable. The government's more recent attempt to announce clearly unattainable carbon-emission targets – and its subsequent U-turn inspired derision on both the right and left. If he now makes another turn and a half, he may bequeath whoever succeeds him something unexpected: the beginnings of a decent American policy for this troubled region. Mr Bush's first U-turn was on Iran. That represents more than 500 kilometers driven on the snaky road over the mountains, not including the sites often difficult to access, on bad roads where making a U-turn is quite a challenge. He let slip that he had changed his mind, but this was the U-turn of a godfather, not a ditherer. The truth of Mr Cameron's humiliating U-turn is he doesn't have the strength to face down a Europhobic Conservative mob. What tuition fees did to Nick Clegg, this leadership U-turn is already doing to Farage, turning him into a human punchline who will never be believed again. Show More Sentences If we want to make it to Kyoto, we will have to make a U-turn. If ever a ship needed steadying it's the Labour Party so why send out Diane Abbott to rock the boat and defend John McDonnell's U-turn on fiscal policy on the Today programme? The vehicle did a U-turn before ramming the squad car three times. A BUS shelter was wrecked by a Royal Mail van making a U-turn. Before performing his biggest U-turn in a desperate search for electability, Neil Kinnock famously put his finger on what is at stake in the nuclear age. Examples from Classical Literature But we will not allow a panicky u-turn during PMQs to dictate Government policy. They exchanged so-longs, and Kavaalen backed, and made a U-turn, moving off in the direction of Rosemont. He twisted the car into the traffic again, and with a swift U-turn, headed the coupe toward home. He put the groundcar in drive again, and made a U-turn in the highway. No U-turn on through streets and no left turns out of alleys. Then when you grab him he puts it down and haltingly suggests he's had a U-turn and is no longer thinking about robbing you. After a sharp U-turn off the emergency exit runners then begin the gentle descent down under the River Mersey. If we take a U-turn to those old days when I was at school, we had a doctor and nurse who came every so often for all the children to have a medical. Cabbies failed to achieve their strike aim of forcing ruling Labour councillors into a U-turn on their refusal to impose a temporary block on new taxi licences. Find more words! 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