You can get to the end stage of accepting and find yourself reverting to depression or anger.
The move backfired and Cameron (reverting to type) compromised, making it clear that, while all could attend, only backbenchers would be allowed to vote.
It was decided that she would make remarks which were wholly neutral but which would leave nobody in any doubt about her support for the union – as she made clear she had no intention of reverting, as Alex Salmond had suggested, to the ancient title of Queen of Scots.
Speaking about Ed Miliband's political predicaments, Mandelson said the right wing had been good at handling rhetoric of austerity and deficit reduction but warned the centre-left against reverting to old arguments and "business and bank bashing".
Dortmund can still take heart that from minutes one to 45, they were who they used to be – before reverting once more to who they are right now.
Clinton at that time could have potentially split her accounts, reverting to an official State.gov email account and BlackBerry for work and leaving her personal email on her iPad.
Even in 1996, when Tony Blair announced that the creation of a Scottish parliament would depend on approval in a pre-legislative referendum, some in the SNP suspected that Labour was reverting to unionist type.
"M Maupassant is reverting to the animal", his doctor wrote a few days before his death, aged 42.
Frank Lucas, the Republican chairman of the House agriculture committee, says that "reverting back to an antiquated system…is not responsible," while Debbie Stabenow, the Democratic chairman of the Senate agriculture committee, is confident that a deal will be reached before the end of the year.
Besides deterring Afghan warlords from reverting to type and settling quarrels with guns rather than debates, the force is intended to secure the distribution of the humanitarian aid the country so badly needs.
Neither he nor his successors would dream of reverting to the days of nationalisation and unfettered union power.The Lady still casts a long shadow.
