Sentence examples for a face-saving measure from inspiring English sources

The minister of state, Miftah Ismail, said Khan's decision to call off the protest was a face-saving measure.

"As a face-saving measure," Mr. Norquist said, the deficit reduction panel "could give lots of instructions to the tax-writing committees".

It was partly seen as a face-saving measure; fans and club executives alike have been wondering whether Wenger's innovations had run their course.

Many artists and bloggers interpreted Ai's release as merely a face-saving measure to help Premier Wen Jiabao avoid embarrassment when he traveled to Europe a few days later.

The move — seen as a face-saving measure after months of political jockeying in Washington — prompted a heated reaction from both opponents and even some wary members of his own Republican Party.

In a conversation with the German and French foreign ministers, a senior British Foreign Office envoy and the European Union's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, in Vienna last Friday, Dr. ElBaradei expressed the view that Iran needed to continue some uranium enrichment work as a face-saving measure, a European official said.

Upon hearing about Caroline Kennedy's abrupt withdrawal from contention for the New York Senate seat, a male political colleague remarked to me: "Shouldn't she have just stayed in the race like a man and faced being passed over?" The implication was that Kennedy was not going to be selected by Governor Paterson and withdrew her name as a face saving measure.

If true — and the details were not entirely clear — Mr. Morsi's shift would be a pragmatic face-saving measure.

"Anything less is a shameful face-saving measure".

My accreditation expires on 31 May 2011, I read – so the decision to grant me a new visa is merely an interim face-saving measure.

One can understand someone like Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld defending a policy of playing solo in Iraq, but what you are suggesting is a half-hearted, or rather face-saving, measure.