Sentence examples for reversing someone from inspiring English sources

Nor was it a case of reversing someone else's policies.

It treats systems analysis as a process in which the analyst is challenged to reverse-engineer someone else's, possibly dysfunctional, synthesis.

One of the great joys of Colbert's conservative persona is his ability to somehow reverse eviscerate someone by taking their side.

"We don't right now have ways of reversing the fact that someone had a period of awareness," Pearl lamented, suggesting that something akin to the neuralizer from Men in Black could one day be a useful addition to every anesthesiologist's toolkit.

At the end the whole show speedily reverses, as if someone had hit a rewind button.

In the earlier report, those numbers were reversed, suggesting that someone in the "suspected" category has probably been bumped up to "confirmed," but no additional detainees have come under scrutiny.

Any writing on props and costumes had to be reversed, and if someone walked to their right in the script, they had to walk left during shooting.

Can you do the same – in reverse – for someone in a coma and see whether they are aware?

And there's a new list called Acquaintances that also has special properties, but in reverse: add someone to it, and only the most important status changes (marriages, new jobs, etc).

This is called a put option, but it can be done in reverse by someone agreeing to buy a stock in the future at a fixed price (called a call option).

In 2009, Ryan was striving to reintroduce himself as someone true to his ideological roots and capable of reversing his party's reputation for fiscal profligacy.