One of the funnier games -invented, I think, by Gerald Kaufman in his Daily Mirror days - involved reversing the initial letters of the names of MPs' in the hope of creating felicitous Spoonerisms.
Of course this success story is rarely told, mostly because it involved reversing many of the failed neoliberal policies -- backed by Washington and its International Monetary Fund -- that brought the country to ruin in its worst recession of 1998-2002.
And she was holed up in her McMansion scheming unquenchable revenge, which involved reversing the A/V flow, hiring private investigators who installed microcameras wherever I might roam, tailing me semi-discreetly in a series of white vans with stupid names like "Simply Service".
Scoring of the questionnaire involved reversing negatively worded items such that higher values are indicative of more effective self-care.
Reversal learning involves reversing the contingencies of the two stimuli once a discrimination has been acquired; the measure is the number of trials required until the subject reverses its previous preference.
When a speaker indulges in understatement, correction of what she says involves strengthening it; when she indulges in irony, our correction involves reversing it (in some sense or other, the nature of the reversal varying from case to case), and so forth.
This trick involves reversing the polarities of the characters.
So I realised that the physical process of transitioning would involve reversing the effects of puberty, one by one, before a second puberty would begin.
New York needs as many credible offensive threats on the court as possible, as the only methods to free Anthony involve reversing the ball to free up scorers against Miami's understaffed weak side.
But that won't cut it with a Palestinian leadership that has taken courageous steps to stabilize the West Bank and needs a clear signal — now — that Israel understands peace will involve reversing the settlements, not growing them further.
Turning France around, he has said, involves "reversing the trajectory of a country which has accepted no longer being in the front rank, which has consented to its own humbling, and which refuses to make sacrifices".
