Sentence examples for give face from inspiring English sources

The phrase "give face" is not a grammatically correct or commonly used phrase in formal written English.
It is primarily used in colloquial or informal speech. It is derived from the Chinese phrase "mianzi" and typically means to show respect, honor, or consideration for someone's reputation or social status. Example: "She always expected others to give her face, even though she had not earned it through hard work or achievements." (informal speech) In formal written English, the phrase could be rephrased as "She always expected others to show her respect, even though she had not earned it through hard work or achievements."

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give face

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To honor; to pay respect.

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It is important in Japanese culture to give face to people in public to avoid their embarrassment.

The normal protocol would have been for Rice to give face time to the assembled muckety-mucks.

They have circulated copies of the threatening letters, and passed along pictures that seem to give face to at least one killing that matches the pattern.

The group's goal with the dinners is to connect supporters of Mr. Trump with policy leaders, and to give face time to the people who had shown the president the most support, a person with knowledge of the process said.

Women now had a voice in the selection of their mates, and, in one case, a bride who was marrying for love confided to Yan that she was too happy to sob; she had to rub hot pepper on her handkerchief in order to summon the tears that guests expected when a bride leaves home — the misery that would give face to her parents.

Women now had a voice in the selection of their mates, and, in one case, a bride who was marrying for love confided to Yan that she was too happy to sob; she had to rub hot pepper on her handkerchief in order to summon the tears that guests expected when a bride leaves home the misery that would give face to her parents.

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Then an upright frontal face detector based on orientation analysis and other knowledge is designed to verify the given face.

Giving "face" by pairing peers can help resolve this as can giving the negotiation a 'fun", learning approach.

The second part of the framework is a crowdsourcing process designed to ask annotators to identify the facial-expression present in a given face image.

The proposed formulation is applied for the task of adulthood classification which predicts whether the given face image is of an adult or not.

In fact, some traditional cars are about to be given face recognition software that will warn drivers when the driver appears to be tired.

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