| The doctors have already got much of what they wanted and Abbot's face-saving inquiry will probably give them the rest before Christmas. |
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| We all delude ourselves to varying degrees, but we normally have some face-saving excuse. |
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| The stand-off has nothing to do with meaningful policy and everything to do with politics and face-saving. |
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| You know, there's all this easy talk about face-saving culture of China, but this is power politics. |
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| This seemed to be a compromise, face-saving revelation that would allow more frankness further down the line. |
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| They strain credibility by taking the universal language of face-saving and meaningless political rhetoric to the limit. |
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| The local media also broke new ground by announcing the Ryongchon disaster, but with face-saving twists. |
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| Pushing through rushed legislation for political face-saving is a massive backwards step. |
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| Double standards and displacement of blame are persistent face-saving strategies. |
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| The others agreed to consider it, and negotiated face-saving compromises which fell far short of Olivares' proposals. |
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| It was always going to be an exercise in face-saving and at least I can take something positive out of that. |
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| People bent on folly are overpowered by ambition, anxiety, status-seeking, and face-saving, she observed. |
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| The end-results are usually win-win solutions with no need for face-saving tactics. |
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| If the dialogue is conducted in public, we quickly enter into a face-saving mechanism, and that is not very helpful in overcoming difficulties. |
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| Invariably, both sides would find a face-saving compromise, and NDP support would once again materialize in the House. |
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| My friend thought he had beaten a rapid retreat after the initial, face-saving show of bravado. |
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| Edward, at least, was given the face-saving task of dashing off to see Daddy in hospital. |
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| For face-saving purposes, I suggested that the capitulation could be to NATO, rather than other Libyans. |
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| The news release papers things over with friendly quotes that appear to be part of a face-saving effort. |
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| With both sides taking a hard line, it seems difficult for a face-saving solution to be arranged. |
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| But it could also be a face-saving measure which would make passing the resolution easier. |
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| It is incredible that the Canadian health authorities should succumb to a childish, face-saving quarrel about where the disease has come from. |
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| If you back your opponent into a corner with no face-saving way out, he or she has no choice but to fight. |
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| It was just a face-saving measure on the part of the European parliamentarians. |
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| It opens the door graciously for face-saving when a speaker has crossed the boundary of good taste. |
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| Third parties are helpful in proposing face-saving options that can break seemingly insurmountable deadlocks. |
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| This face-saving measure seemed to solve the problem and the Kimberley Process concurred. |
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| How many streets will have to remain unswept, how many refuse bins left to overflow, and roadways left to crumble to help pay for this latest face-saving exercise? |
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| What do you do when, instead of being greeted with flowers, you find your army is tied down by insurgents and you have no face-saving way to get out of the morass? |
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| These are not corrective action but face-saving and delay tactics. |
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| The face-saving compromise now being pushed into the future of licensing reforms is to allow restaurants to offer the full range of alcoholic drinks as part of their service. |
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| The face-saving compromise that saved the country from default was simply a promise to deal with the deficit later. |
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| It is possible that the national Newspaper Guild will intervene and find some face-saving way to stage a second vote. |
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| But a senior U.S. defense official calls the peace plan a face-saving gesture for everybody. |
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| In a face-saving gesture for authorities, he was finally released when it was decided he had been charged under the wrong legal article and his sentence should have been 5 rather than 15 years. |
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| What we should do is to, and it would be a wise decision, a face-saving decision for us all, is to suspend this ad hoc practice immediately, pending further review. |
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| I believe it is probably just a face-saving exercise on behalf of France. |
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| Of such quaint face-saving evasions is diplomacy made. |
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| Now, Mr Pfauwadel has struck a face-saving compromise. |
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| By reporting what they say, the media allows leaders in a conflict to conduct face-saving and consensus-building, even reaching to refugees and exiles in far-away places. |
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| This process has several advantages, as it is not as resource-demanding as the formal process in the WTO and allows for face-saving win-win solutions based on additional technical measures at times not yet considered. |
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| That change would be far easier to achieve and more practical than Villaraigosa and city officials' face-saving call to change state law to require public hearings. |
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| Furthermore, you can eat sushi with your fingers, a fact that allows the clumsy among us some face-saving grace at the sushi bar. |
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| And without so much as a departing retort, some face-saving insult, the duffel-coated rickle of banes slunk off. |
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| This will give a needed face-saving excuse to the AFM to bring the event to a more desiderable calendar date, and give NATPE a new home. |
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| Psychiatrists recommend that clinicians attempt to phrase their discussion in a way that provides the patient with a way to concoct a face-saving explanation. |
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