Sentence examples for to about face from inspiring English sources

Then, reluctant to yield the ground, he ordered the 22nd to about face and stand fast.

Lightfoot ordered his men to about-face and march away, an order that all five regiments of the brigade thought applied to them as well.

We need to immediately to an about face".

She talks to Tom Brook about facing up to the challenge.

On some issues he did seem to do an about face.

Thanks to his again ordering the peers to "right-about face," this time over the Corn Laws, he enabled Peel to abolish them.

A number of ultra-Tories defied to the last Wellington's order to "right-about face," but the majority of the party obeyed.

Ignatius, hardly the Obama apologist, appears to have made an about face.

Second thoughts about Krupp's ability to finance such a deal also led to the about-face.

It will be hard for them to do an about-face to appeal to the conservative voters in South Carolina, he said.

That led to another about-face.