| The secret of their survival has been to keep things genially non-confrontational, and never to allow any member to lose face. |
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| There's a Japanese saying to the effect that if you do a favor for someone you must humbly apologize, because you have caused them to lose face. |
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| Also, asking for clarification may indicate lack of expertise and people don't want to lose face in doing that. |
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| Rather than lose face, our intrepid medical student parked at the side of the road, zipped up the tonneau cover and strode off, as if there were nothing wrong. |
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| We all know that in order not to lose face, the basis of a resolution has already been negotiated. |
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| This House would lose face and would discredit itself in the eyes of public opinion in our countries, and that is something we do not want. |
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| They do not want the charming Minister of Finance, who is a very credible person, to lose face. |
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| However, that self-image is undermined because he cannot fulfil vital family functions and so is likely to lose face. |
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| Prior to Verbal Judo, a person dealing with the police had three options: fight, flight or surrender and lose face. |
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| Impunity-the potential aggressor will not want to carry out the aggression if they think they will be punished or lose face in anyway. |
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| In the wrong circumstances, for example, making a well-meaning, good-natured joke at someone's expense can cause the person to lose face. |
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| It is located at the intersection of the other spheres, notably by the primary need not to lose face or one's credibility. |
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| If the European Union is not capable of guaranteeing these principles, it will lose face completely in the negotiations which will be held shortly at the World Trade Organisation's Millennium Round. |
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| If this House has reached the point where it is going to ignore the consensual principle and have our dear monarch lose face by unilaterally cancelling an agreement, I think it is because the Crown was very poorly advised. |
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| Is it not perhaps also the case that Europe cannot now afford to lose face by withdrawing, or does not know what other solutions it could conjure up to ensure coexistence and a common future? |
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| If the village chief was a good listener with a sense of equity, he would try to balance people's grievances so no one would lose face or feel wronged. |
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| They think that supervisors will lose face or will get angry. |
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| To lose face, Mr. Speaker, is not too strong a way of putting it. |
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| In Germany there is a new Government, which will not necessarily feel that it would lose face by reversing the rejectionist stance of its predecessor, so perhaps we can now hope for a more conciliatory response. |
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| People with money would rather go to court and pay than lose face. |
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| Without serious measures the EU development cooperation policy for the support and sustainable development of developing countries will be hard to implement, and the EU stands to lose face. |
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| He could indeed lose face with a bill such as this one. |
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| For much of the debate, I have had the impression that a kind of war was being fought to see whether it would be Great Britain or France who would lose face. |
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