Sentence examples for a face-saving device from inspiring English sources
The promise of a review became a face-saving device for Mr Blair.Now, however, the budget review is acquiring new significance, for three reasons.
The potlatch was also used as a face-saving device by individuals who had suffered public embarrassment and as a means of competition between rivals in social rank.
An earlier exception, allowing a case to be heard in Strasbourg if the national court "clearly erred", has been removed as a face-saving device.
Historians say that the latter was a face-saving device for Khrushchev, and that the president wanted it private so that it would not seem a concession to nuclear blackmail.
The crude terms on which Mat is reconciled to Anna (extorting a confession, on oath, that she has never loved another man) make you wonder if he can have learned anything at all from the ordeal of the play or whether this is just a face-saving device on his part.
"This is a technique that the public security authorities sometimes use as a face-saving device to end controversial cases that are unwise or unnecessary for them to prosecute," Jerome A. Cohen, a scholar of the Chinese legal system, said in an e-mail.
Within days, or even hours, the two sides would come up with some face-saving device to calm the markets.
Mr Corbyn's legion of detractors will present this feeble, face-saving device as proof of his weak leadership and talk up Labour splits over Britain's nuclear deterrent.
"Diplomats are good at dealing with one another so that there are face-saving devices," Mr. Baker said.
Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, approached Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, to try to open talks, also centered on the medical device tax as a face-saving victory for Republicans looking for a graceful way to back down.
The Senate could take up the House spending bill, strip out the one-year health care delay and accept the 2.3-percent medical device tax repeal as a face-saving victory for Republicans.
