| David told his oppo he had already gone to the top, and when his mate called his bluff he had to climb to the button to save face. |
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| I married to save face and save myself from being called a loser or a failure. |
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| That way, it would save face for me and avoid any further conflicts with Tinka and Victor. |
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| Trying to save face as much as possible, I put a fake smile on and sauntered over to him, planting a quick kiss on his surprised lips. |
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| Usually it's the weaker party that needs to save face when backing down from some untenable position. |
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| I am sure they would not do this very often, but it would allow them now to save face and go home with an acceptable solution. |
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| Not having any tangible results to show off, it could well be that boycott is a convenient excuse which lets them save face at minimal cost. |
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| Other common strategies used to save face for others include the use of circumlocution and equivocation when criticism of another's performance is unavoidable. |
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| The actors, left with little choice but to act their socks off to save face, sporadically energise the plodding script but there are many dull stretches. |
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| In a jam like this, it's certainly OK to help your girl save face. |
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| We cannot demand that someone be handed over on a silver platter, when that is not the way people in that culture work to save face. |
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| An ingenious communication campaign not only allowed them to save face but also to enhance the image of a carmaker worthy of trust. |
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| However, it is not impossible scholarly formulae will be found which allow each side to agree to disagree and save face. |
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| What developing countries need is more aid money to save lives and not for donors to save face. |
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| That is what the government has done to save face with the tobacco companies. |
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| People were shocked by the determination of the Vietnamese authorities and the police in trying to repress patriots, to save face for Beijing. |
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| Since that time, the Prime Minister and his ministers have fallen over each other like Keystone cops in their efforts to backtrack or save face. |
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| So let's not try to save face for public opinion because I don't need to play victim so people can take my side. |
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| I think mostly I was trying to save face, or pretend everything's fine for my own sake as much as for theirs. |
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| It was terribly expensive for the employer to find a way out and save face after using all kinds of tough measures against the workers. |
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| It is important to leave the violator an option to save face during the negotiation. |
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| Gibson uses the example of asking someone out on a date as how younger generations turn to nonverbal communication to save face. |
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| This whole exercise has been political football and now the is government trying to save face by continuing this charade. |
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| Police associations and powerful anti-gun groups have lobbied to keep the registry and the Conservatives are abusing the democratic process to save face and appease core voters. |
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| These cases often therefore leave the crown with being forced to prove a particular group is a criminal organization because the accused wants to save face in the gang. |
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| The sector keeps on repeating that it does not want an agreement at just any price, and it is afraid that an agreement will be signed just to save face. |
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| England failed to win any series during the 1960s, a period dominated by draws as teams found it more prudent to save face than risk losing. |
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| Mr Haarder called the solution balanced', but I regard it as being, above all, balanced in terms of allowing Russia to save face and to please our own Schengen purists. |
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| Would it not be a better idea for the coalition to implement the proposals of this standing committee reached in consensus than to try to save face with a phoney committee? |
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| Signing the protocol on customs union was meant to be a quasi-recognition of Cyprus, which would have enabled Ankara to save face while also meeting one of the essential conditions for the opening of negotiations. |
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| Rather than trying to save face by allocating these jobs at the last minute, will the government agree to transfer this program to Quebec, as requested by the Quebec Minister for Intergovernmental Affairs? |
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| For all these reasons there is some pressure on both sides to renew their direct contacts and urge their diplomats to find new linguistic formulas that save face but accomplish their mutual objectives. |
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| Understandably, Paddy has a few questions about where the cash has disappeared to, but when he asks Pearl about it, she tells a big lie to save face. |
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| But if Cheyne thought he could save face with this letter, he failed to reckon with Hugh de Cressingham, who was the most able of the king's administrators. |
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| He tried to make reparations to those he had injured, partly to save face. |
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