Examples of using About-face in English and their translations into German
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The about-face pays off: the sale of its AOL Europe shares in 2002 alone brings in more than USD 6.75 billion for Bertelsmann.
And so this cop, she keeps marching toward this kill zone, and unless she makes an about-face, it is not going to end well.
Similarly, the Chinese government's later, and quite sudden, about-face in recognizing the rebel Transitional National Council as Libya's government aroused considerable sneering at home.
side of the gavel, the Supreme Court did an about-face and decided last June to bar the death penalty on retarded defendants.
This was an about-face from an incomprehensible passivity towards vandalism,
They failed, due to Ehud Barak's about-face, but in any case, they would not have been able to resolve all the problems in the absence of the other protagonists.
This about-face comes as no surprise.
So much more surprising was his about-face!
the cessation of hostilities in Syria marks an about-face.
Liebknecht sent a letter to the conference which proclaimed his abrupt about-face from pacifism to revolution.
only reflects the about-face of the Sarkozy administration.
The reason for this potential about-face is not the protests
The introduction of education vouchers represents an about-face in Germany's active labour market policies- namely, a shift from training campaigns to placement-oriented assistance.
But the about-face came promptly.
Stalin did an about-face.
Yet, in a shocking last-minute about-face, Obama declined to intervene.
This about-face in interest policy is good news for the Eurozone and for Switzerland.
It seemed that he did an about-face in his career.
MUNICH- Last June, the European Commission announced its about-face on bank restructuring.
Despite a broad alliance, an about-face followed later that evening.