face saving in a sentence

Examples

1. Batsman Grant Flower produced a face saving century for Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club Saturday in the fourth of five one-day internationals against Pakistan.
2. Finally all the sides agreed to sign the'SAARC Framework Agreement for Energy Cooperation ( Electricity )'only as a face saving measure for the Kathmandu summit.
3. Robin Smith top scored for England with 62 Thursday as he and Graham Thorpe ( 54 ) put on a face saving 111-run fourth wicket stand.
4. Mahanama, who scored 51 of 61 deliveries, had a face saving seventh-wicket stand of 46 runs with Thilan Samaraweera, who finished with 20 off 41 balls.
5. Robin Smith top scored for England with 62 Thursday as he and Grahem Thorpe ( 54 ) put on a face saving 11-run fourth wicket stand.
6. The visitors, chasing 219 to win, collapsed dramatically to 27 for five, before Jonty Rhodes and Brian McMillan came together in a 117-run face saving stand.
7. I imagine he especially doesn't like this point because it directly contradicts an attempted " face saving " quote Maunus has added from ideologically aligned Jonathan Marks.
8. They contend that savings and loan industry officials and concerned federal regulators-- including Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve-- are exaggerating the dangers facing savings institutions.
9. There are some in Pakistan who say that as a face saving gesture, Washington can recognize Pakistan as a nuclear weapons state, if Islamabad agrees not to test.
10. It has been argued by some historians that the Concordat of Worms and its reiteration by Lateran I were little more than face saving measures by the Church.