Sentence examples for personal reversal from inspiring English sources

The political reversal -- a blow to me -- fused with the happy personal reversal.

It has been a wrenching professional and personal reversal for Mr. Kopper, who three years ago became the first Enron executive to plead guilty to criminal charges and cut a deal with the government.

On one level, Mr. Qaddafi's avowed embrace of the Islamists represents a sharp personal reversal for a man who had long styled himself as a cosmopolitan, Anglophile advocate of Western-style liberal democracy.

The discovery of the abuse also proved a harsh personal reversal for General Sanchez, 52, a Mexican-American who grew up in poverty in Rio Grande City, Tex., began working at the age of 6, and became his family's first high school graduate, before joining the Army and rising to the most coveted combat command since Vietnam.

(Conspiracy theories notwithstanding, those closest to him cite a series of personal reversals).

Burton testified that he had accepted Rialto's employment due to personal financial reversals.

Saltzman had branched out into several other ventures of dubious promise and consequently was struggling through personal financial reversals unrelated to Bond.

If there are many victims of multiple personal crimes, this reversal of effect would be the result.

Surprising to those who know only the World War II Churchill: the many personal and professional reversals he overcame through the years, including an escape from capture in South Africa's Boer War in 1899, which brought him his first national renown.

But it's solid stuff; well played, affectionately told, and still stirring in its role reversals, both personal and political.

On a personal level, this stunning medical reversal was not entirely surprising to Mr. Greenstein's family and friends.