Similar words: face saving, lifesaving, timesaving, time-saving, life-saving, saving grace, saving, savings. Meaning: adj. maintaining dignity or prestige face saving. n. an act that avoids a loss of face (of dignity or prestige).
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1. The decision appears to be a face-saving compromise which will allow the government to remain in office.
2. The government was forced to find a face-saving formula to cover its misjudgement.
3. The party's most likely recourse is a face-saving compromise with the Ministry of Finance that does not alter the statusquo.
4. Carter reluctantly accepted the face-saving maneuver, which was announced on April 21.
5. Experts say the face-saving courtesy now extends to lower-level employees.
6. Wright's face-saving equaliser came five minutes from time - after he had endured a nightmare display.
7. For all the face-saving intellectual contortions , everyone knows it's Adam Smith and not Karl Marx at the rudder of this communist economy.
8. So the government needed a face-saving way out of the latest fine mess it had gotten the project into.
9. This thinking is common in Asia culture, where face-saving is important. Face-saving means not making others look bad (a.k.a losing face).
10. He was seeking a face-saving deal with the bank's board that would allow him to resign under his own terms and escape some blame for the foolery involving his girlfriend's compensation.
11. Part of the new Governor's job will be to avoid a face-saving repetition.
12. But the odds are that even those women who appear impermeable to pain are suffering great hurt behind their face-saving pose.
13. He could have joined battle, lost, and opted for some face-saving rapprochement.
14. The Republicans responded like Pavlovian dogs, panting and salivating over a face-saving way out of a political mess.
15. Some experts said Mr. Wen may have just toned down his language as a face-saving way out of the confrontation.
16. As recently as last Friday, Mr Breuer met shareholders to seek a face-saving agreement which would have avoided the appearance of a summary dismissal.
17. In fact, the team's sixth man will appear in the game are often the moment of victory, this is a very face-saving thing.
18. I thought a Russian presence would help protect the Serb minority and might give Milosevic a face-saving way out of his opposition to foreign troops.
19. Napoleon Bonaparte was awarded the island as a tiny principality in a face-saving deal after his first abdication in 1814.
20. In the SARS epidemic in 2003, the technocrats were initially inept too, putting face-saving ahead of epidemiology.
21. That is, local government official works, or might lead to a face-saving projects is the major source of investment overheating.
22. Of course, Google will only come back if Beijing makes a major face-saving concession, probably by lifting many of its strict self-censorship rules.
23. Dr. Sanyal frowned and gently shook his head, and, after a face-saving pause, the launch reversed and slunk back downriver.
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24. Britain's Finance Minister Alistair Darling said that he would be flexible in reaching a solution with Iceland, suggesting scope for a face-saving compromise for both sides.
25. A shared sense of crisis also gave China a face-saving way of engaging in some fence-mending.
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