Go deeper: U.S. pushes toward "face-saving way out" of Afghanistan
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China wants a face-saving way of coming to the table.
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Critics might argue that this statement is a face-saving exercise.
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Or an indication of — and face-saving concession to — the inevitable?
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A face-saving fudge looks possible, though perhaps not by June 10th.
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In past crises, American diplomats have helped to find face-saving solutions.
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You need active diplomacy, you need some face-saving, tension-deescalating moves.
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It was a wobble, but as face-saving gambits go, it's flawed.
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"It's just a face-saving approach by the four countries," she added.
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The last several months have been dominated by various face-saving tactics.
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It also gives prosecutors a face-saving way to avoid absurd outcomes.
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Some on the Uber board side characterized Immelt's departure as face-saving.
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A face-saving legal contraption is possible, but that is a different story.
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So pre-spinning a possible defeat may represent a face-saving way out.
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Calling the deal a merger seems a face-saving gesture for Mr Son.
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Trump escapes from the shutdown with barely even a face-saving fig leaf.
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Now, they need to find a face-saving way to get to resolution.
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A face-saving compromise may yet be arranged over the expensive pension proposals.
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A face-saving compromise was reached in early July but underlying tensions linger.
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FACE-SAVING OFFER Many investors are counting on J&J to structure a deal that would grant shareholders a cash payout and award Clozel a face-saving departure that honors the value of the firm's development pipeline of experimental drugs.
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This is a volatile, risky strategy, but the impulse towards face-saving is reassuring.
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Neither Trump, nor Kim is leaving himself any face-saving off ramps from confrontation.
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If rebuffed, it always finds a way to retreat in a face-saving manner.
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It was a face-saving operation, and that's how the market is interpreting it.
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Therefore, he will be looking for a face-saving way out of the current crisis.
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IT WAS supposed to be a face-saving measure to stop the coalition government collapsing.
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"The likely scenario is a face-saving measure that doesn't change the balance," he said.
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Even Jeb Bush emerged from the doldrums with a face-saving finish in New Hampshire.
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By extending the talks, Schmidt salvaged a face-saving compromise text during late-night discussions.
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Both sides may be seeking a face-saving way out of the confrontation, experts say.
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What little enrichment Iran is allowed under the deal is effectively a face-saving measure.
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It may be a face-saving fiction, but it has also been a life-saving one.
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It was a limited, face-saving deal that everyone can tout as "preventing" a trade war.
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The Republican-led Senate is doing nothing to offer its President a face saving way out.
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At least, in this case, the lies and contradictions are not dangerous but simply face-saving.
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President Trump needs to find a face-saving way out of his trade war, and soon.
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Some will cite diplomatic, financial or even face-saving reasons for the United States not to apologize.
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Or he may be laying groundwork for a face-saving exit if Trump comes in too hard.
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This looks like pre-emptive face-saving, of course — getting an excuse ready if he loses badly.
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Europe and the United States could also find a face-saving way to revise the nuclear deal.
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However, analysts warned against assuming that Washington and Beijing will automatically reach a face-saving deal this time.
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Old hands in Dili remain hopeful that Timor's leaders can find a face-saving way to change course.
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A: A-minus ... They are in a Gordian knot with both sides having no face-saving way out.
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It's a face-saving move for something that he was unprepared to agree to in the first place.
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This is exactly the kind of face-saving compromise that is supposed to win out in these situations.
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"If [Trump] finds a face-saving arrangement out of this then the economy will be OK," he said.
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Bower said Trump's win could offer Duterte a face-saving way to step back from his anti-U.
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The litigation should be settled with some face-saving measures for Mr. Dauman and George Abrams, another director.
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Wendy knows now that he expects her to lose and has made face-saving arrangements behind the scenes.
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That offered Mr. Trump a face-saving way out of the imbroglio, and a chance to de-escalate.
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After days of increasing hostilities, Mr. Khan's gesture appeared to be a face-saving opening for both countries.
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It remains to be seen whether his appeal will be heard and all can find a face-saving solution.
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Washington seems to have understood and accepted that its negotiating overreach must be abandoned without a face-saving retreat.
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But either way Assad would eventually go, in a face-saving way, with guarantees for him and his family.
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This litigation should be settled for all involved, with some face-saving measures for Mr. Abrams and Mr. Dauman.
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India and China must find a face-saving way to back away from the brink and withdraw their troops.
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The semantic evolution provides both the president and Democrats with a face-saving way forward if they want it.
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And it&aposs hard to imagine that the policy will last much longer without some kind of face-saving deal.
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And if there's no room for face-saving compromise, the trade war could certainly extend to November 2020 and beyond.
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Talks are scheduled to try hammer out a comprehensive deal, or at least a face-saving measure that averts disaster.
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Doing legislative changes then, before the trade talks had ended, was widely seen as a face-saving move by China.
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These measures may help build confidence in the plausibility of good-faith negotiation, but they are primarily face-saving devices.
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It's not hard to see how such an approach could offer a face saving way out of the current showdown.
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The GOP wants to provide a face-saving measure for Trump given his vow to never again sign an omnibus.
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For North Korea, the pause could provide a face-saving means to avoid a conflict it would most likely lose.
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The amnesty provides a face-saving way out, but does not indicate that the government is turning over a new leaf.
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The day before the vote a group of Republican senators, led by Mr Lee, offered Mr Trump a face-saving compromise.
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At that point, their position was so weak that Republicans had no incentive to agree to even a face-saving compromise.
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Some romantics put this agreement not to disagree down to a beguiling regional culture of pacifism, fine manners and face-saving.
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Any alternative proposal will need to give the North Korean regime some face-saving incentive to come to the negotiating table.
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Now his hardball tactics on trade are making any sort of face-saving compromise between the two countries even less likely.
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This face-saving compromise is likely to overcome asset managers' reluctance to include onshore Chinese stocks after three previous failed attempts.
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We'll do some face-saving things to appease the streets, but we don't want this to get out of hand, either.
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"This face-saving gesture is the right thing," Pregent, who is now senior fellow at the nonpartisan Hudson Institute, told Hill.
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The United Nations has already seen the consequences of putting short-term face-saving over transparency about protection failures in South Sudan.
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"We should find ways to allow some face-saving actions because China could face tremendous domestic pressure," the Philippine navy official said.
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At some point, the game isn't just a deal, it's also the face-saving that comes from not losing to the competition.
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But the stakes are set so high that a face-saving climbdown for all parties is going to be hard to achieve.
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But opposition parties were quick to denounce the deal as a face-saving measure that effectively amounted to a promotion for Maassen.
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I hope that Congress can go beyond the usual partisan blame games and the face-saving formalities of setting up investigative commissions.
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" Nick Kristof, in The Times: "We're facing a very real crisis, without good face-saving exit ramps for either Trump or Khamenei.
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The question of whether this is a face-saving rebranding or a step toward potential impeachment is really up to Nadler, though.
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If the president were to reach a face-saving deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the risk of recession would drop considerably.
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Go deeper: U.S. pushes toward "face-saving way out" of Afghanistan Editor's note: This article has been updated with new details throughout.
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An executive at one big sovereign-wealth fund says SoftBank may need a face-saving way to reduce the new VF's size.
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But the word signals an opening for diplomacy and de-escalation: the Iranians have now delivered a face-saving, if ineffective, response.
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"We see this as a possible face-saving way for Erdogan to agree to Brunson's release," the Eurasia Group said last week.
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Their public declaration is admirable, yes, but it largely comes across as a convenient face-saving measure for a bad PR situation.
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The Senate does not seem an obvious face-saving destination for Pelosi, with 85-year-old Dianne Feinstein having just been reelected.
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Both sides may be seeking a face-saving way out of the confrontation, they said, and Abe is well placed to help out.
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The American government, which is hoping to find a face-saving formula to withdraw from Afghanistan, has long called for such a meeting.
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They'll come up with any face-saving lie to try and explain a spontaneous groundswell from the people that we've never seen before.
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Many Korea watchers are hopeful that sports diplomacy will provide a face-saving way for the two Koreas to launch a robust dialogue.
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Any subsequent equity investment is expensive face-saving for SoftBank that will just kick the restructuring can 6-12 months down the road.
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Some question whether it was a face-saving attempt after the deal his envoy said had been reached "in principle" faced serious challenges.
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After modifications, both bills would now end the practice of family separations, giving the President a face saving way out of the controversy.
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Unless he chooses some face-saving compromise, it looks as if Trump will pull out of the Iran nuclear deal by May 12.
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Congress should be wary of helping the president in his face-saving exercise, and refuse to amend the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act (INARA).
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Faysal Itani, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, sees the latest fighting as more of a face-saving exercise than a genuine provocation.
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"There is a search for a face-saving trigger," said John Delury, associate professor of Chinese studies at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea.
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That is, after a lot of chest thumping, President Trump will ultimately agree to a face-saving, largely inconsequential trade deal with the Chinese.
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After hours of relative lull throughout Thursday, the gesture appeared to be a face-saving opening for both countries to head off a war.
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Patrick Ramage, head of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, called the move a face-saving solution that could eventually lead Japan to abandon whaling.
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We want to know exactly what is in our face-saving formulas, and how much of it, from acid potency to potentially acne-aggravating substances.
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The LSVD association representing homosexuals welcomed what they said was a belated shift, saying it was a face-saving measure to exit a dead end.
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There's an alternative to the raw deal on trade for American workers, one that has nothing to do with Trump's threats or face-saving deals.
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Trump begins 2019 seeking a face-saving win from a partial government shutdown that's doubling as his first clash with the new Democratic House majority.
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In many ways, this whole exercise appears to be an empty, face-saving gesture for a president whose antipathy towards his predecessor's legacy is legendary.
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The two sides also pointed to what they claimed were billions of dollars of deals between Chinese and American companies to show face-saving progress.
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"What we are seeing is face-saving," said C. Raja Mohan, the director of Carnegie India, a branch of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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So the administration has no face-saving way of backing down now, even if the globalists did win out and convince Trump to engage on climate.
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Already, Mr Rees-Mogg and others are hinting that, if she can only find face-saving tweaks to her deal, they may back it after all.
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There is still time for negotiations and opportunities for a mutually face-saving deal, though the uncertainty in the meantime is likely to be extremely damaging.
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To the extent that tech companies are self-regulating in response to criticism, we've mostly seen face-saving measures, like Facebook's cosmetic changes to its NewsFeed.
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Political sources said Mattarella also played an important role, backing the cabinet moderates and repeatedly urging Di Maio and Salvini to accept a face-saving compromise.
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Trump appears to be searching for a face-saving way out of the conflict with China as the damage to the stock market and economy mounts.
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Greminger said discussions about a U.N. peacekeeping force could represent a first step toward a "face-saving move" to end the fighting in the Donbass region.
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Both countries seem to be hardening their positions in ways that will be difficult to resolve with the mutual face-saving that typically facilitates trade deals.
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His involvement in the process would have rendered it awkward to leave him off the roster this year, but there was a face-saving third option.
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India's national security adviser is expected to attend a meeting in Beijing this week, which analysts say could signal whether any face-saving compromise is possible.
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However, the offices of both Mr. Dostum and Mr. Noor issued statements denying the incident, which were interpreted by many as face-saving rather than factual.
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Decertifying the deal while not pushing for the re-imposition of sanctions could be a face-saving measure for Trump that keeps the deal in place.
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"That really feels to me like an explanation that has been made up after the fact because they had to have some face-saving explanation," she said.
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Minnesota is the first primary state that Rubio has won and it's a face-saving victory for the Florida senator, who risked ending Super Tuesday still winless.
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Trump sometimes pairs the unfair complaint with a trap door strategy that gives him a face-saving chance to escape humiliation if he spies an imminent defeat.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Angela Merkel's face-saving deal with her conservative allies in Bavaria shows how indispensable the chancellor is to her party - even if she is weakened.
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This means that any "agreement" Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping may reach at the end of the 90 days will simply be a face-saving exercise.
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"This is a face-saving end result for both sides," said Kai Liekefett, a partner at the law firm Sidley Austin who leads Sidley's shareholder activism practice.
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Mr. Duterte, legal victory in hand, decided to give China a face-saving opportunity to leave Scarborough Shoal while blasting Washington, a longtime ally of the Philippines.
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So far, there is no sign that Senate Republicans are maneuvering to offer Trump a face saving way out of what appears to be a dead end.
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The Orange managed to get the ball to Notre Dame's 5-yard-line, where, on fourth down, a face-saving field goal clanged off the left upright.
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The House Freedom Caucus took the hit when the bill collapsed the first time, so they've been working feverishly to come up with a face-saving compromise.
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The White House signaled that it would go along with the measure, citing changes to the bill that mainly provided a face-saving way to back down.
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That route could resolve the immediate crisis by giving Mr. Trump a face-saving way to sign spending bills that do not include funding for his wall.
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Mrs von der Leyen's narrow majority said less about her authority than about the strategic feints, procedural grumbles and face-saving measures of MEPs from across the spectrum.
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" Dan Shapiro, former U.S. ambassador to Israel under Barack Obama, speculated Trump's comments would force Tillerson to quit: "He'll resign, today or after a brief face-saving interval.
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The public remain unimpressed by the cost of what some see as a face-saving exercise, said Chuang Fu-yao, a Taipei resident walking near the embassy compound.
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The two countries remain on a collision path, with few face-saving exit ramps, and with hard-liners on each side escalating and empowering those on the other.
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If he really wants to boost the economy, all Trump needs to do is make a face-saving deal with China and let things go back to normal.
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We should be searching for ways to return to the agreement, with face-saving tweaks that would allow both Trump and the Iranian supreme leader to claim victory.
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Pressure from the Saudis might lead to a face-saving deal that allows the government to return in some form, but the STC will probably remain in control.
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Blaming Mr. Iksil's commentary as the reason for dismissal could be a convenient face-saving means to drop a prosecution that was never going to reach the courtroom.
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"But no matter what we do here, no matter what face-lifting or face-saving we perform here, it is up to the British people to decide," she said.
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China might offer more help against North Korea; or Mexico some sort of face-saving distraction from the border-wall Mr Trump has promised but is struggling to build.
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Indeed, the entire situation vindicated Bloomberg's unusual strategy of skipping the caucus — a move that was likely rooted as much in face-saving as in challenging the status quo.
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While I realize that it's fun to laugh at the face-saving efforts of brands, I can empathize with the people who made these decisions, however wrongheaded in hindsight.
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Jean Lee, director of the Wilson Center's Korea Center, said Kim's commitments may provide a "face-saving" way for the United States to proceed with talks with the North.
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Turkey's government understands it has much to lose if severe sanctions become real but will only cooperate if the US provides a face-saving way to avoid economic catastrophe.
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High-level emissaries of both sides need to meet out of the spotlight as soon as possible to discuss how tensions can be cooled in a face-saving manner.
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Once he saw the prices, she thought, he could make a face-saving excuse to leave and not have to skulk out after being seated in the dining room.
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It is now up to the other small Gulf states like Kuwait or Oman to play a mediating role and help find a face-saving formula for both sides.
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" "ANALYSTS HAVE TO WRITE SOMETHING" In May 2014, media analyst George Reed Dellinger speculated that the FCC's net neutrality work would be little more than a "face-saving effort.
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So both sides may find the US calls for a ceasefire convenient and allow a degree of face-saving as neither can be accused of suing for peace themselves.
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When it's too late for that, your follow-up strategies are right: nonconfrontational, offering your laggard correspondent a face-saving excuse, but also signaling that you're not going away.
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Trump would create a face-saving narrative to allow him to resign and go back to the life he enjoyed so much as a real-estate developer and celebrity.
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"With our help we are confident that this time the parties will come to a face-saving agreement that is acceptable to all," a spokesman for Vedder said on Friday.
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The administration hopes that Pakistan will use its influence over the Taliban to coax the militants into a face-saving political settlement that will allow American troops to come home.
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" He then "appeared to accept a face-saving way to provide threat information and then immediately began talking about possible threats that he had not discussed in such detail before.
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The establishment of a protected marine zone, if successful, could provide both countries a face-saving way to break the diplomatic deadlock without making a political agreement or formal concessions.
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While Iran's attack was meant as a retaliation for the US killing of Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani, there are signs Tehran designed the strikes as a face-saving measure.
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"While it was a very interesting presentation, it felt very 'face-saving' in the shadow of Google's recent changes to their targeting practices," one person in attendance told BuzzFeed News.
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White House officials have been warning him against the action, but they also view it as a potential last-ditch exit ramp if they cannot find another face-saving solution.
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Lawmakers held out the possibility that Mr. Trump could find some face-saving way to fortify border security and build some structures without resorting to a precedent-setting emergency declaration.
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A. The coordinated timing was an important face-saving element built into the nuclear accord to avoid giving the impression that Iran had capitulated to Western pressure before sanctions were lifted.
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Collectively, they form a beautiful unit; there's not a fight to behold throughout the film, and the final act's face-saving set piece is wonderful comedy and friendship goals to boot.
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And by blaming Republican leaders for their failure to wholeheartedly endorse his campaign, Trump also opens up the possibility of a face-saving excuse if he crashes to defeat in November.
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Unsurprisingly, the minister opted for the latter, since it provided a modicum of face-saving, but it shows the extent to which other members of OPEC now have minimal bargaining power.
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The goal is to paint liberals as the real bigots, and issuing face-saving apologies doesn't help—that just plays into the hands of the people trying to move the goalposts.
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Sources connected with the case tell TMZ ... this was a face-saving move by authorities who avoided simply dropping the charge ... after previously dropping the other charges in his September arrest.
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Wall Street has long assumed that Trump, hitting the limits of his negotiating clout, would settle for a limited, face-saving deal far short of forcing structural changes in China's economy.
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Environmentalists and whale enthusiasts may despair, but some believe Japan's decision may in fact be a face-saving admission that its long, expensive campaign to reverse the IWC's moratorium is over.
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And given the hardline position of the Trump administration towards Iran, it does not seem like there is any face-saving option that could quickly limit an escalation once it starts.
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One face-saving move for the European Union could be to sanction Saudi individuals accused of the Khashoggi murder and separate the issue from its close ties with the Saudi state.
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For Russia Turkey, Iran, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad: Each hope that Trump will lose interest in Syria now that he's pocketed a face-saving victory to cover an American retreat.
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I would say that the basis for the deal was a face-saving way out for Iran whereby we didn't make the Iranians fess up that they had a nuclear weapons program.
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A French diplomatic source said Macron was not content with face-saving compromises with Germany, but wanted to work with others such as the Dutch, Danes and Swedes to get his way.
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After one last halfhearted, face-saving attempt, King and an entourage that included his wife, Stacey Walker King, nodded sympathetically before bundling into their parkas to walk the rest of the way.
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"The primary objective of the European Union is to provide a face-saving way for Iran to stay in the" nuclear deal, said Ellie Geranmayeh of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
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China's legislature approved a new legal code for foreign investment in March, giving the government a face-saving way to justify changes in other laws without appearing to acquiesce to American pressure.
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But if the proposed swap offers a face-saving way for Serbia to normalize relations with Kosovo and let the Balkans move forward, Kosovars and their international supporters should jump at it.
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Some Western officials believe that signals the Kurds are looking for some sort of face-saving way to avoid the vote, which Western analysts assert is not supported by all Kurdish factions.
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Trump's yearning to scrap the deal entirely has been turned into a face-saving solution that sends out the message he wants, but also takes into consideration concerns from other parties involved.
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" That face-saving arrangement did not sit well with Elliott, which sent another letter to Arconic's directors criticizing the move as "insensitive to Mr. Singer, who is a victim of this conduct.
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Second, if the Trump administration decides it is willing to back off, the US and Chinese negotiators will need to craft a face-saving deal that allows both sides to declare victory.
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But with the domestic political credibility of the leaders of both countries now on the line, just as in a real war, the scope for a mutually face-saving climb-down has narrowed.
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The ongoing negotiations between the U.S. and the Taliban are a "charade" designed simply to provide the U.S. a "face-saving way out of Afghanistan," former CIA deputy director Michael Morell tells Axios.
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He is not stepping down voluntarily to work on a book, which he said was the face-saving "official narrative" offered to him by John R. MacArthur, the magazine's longtime president and publisher.
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According to the Israeli press, both the Israeli military and Shin Bet, Israel's internal security services, are urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to find some face-saving way of taking the magnetometers down.
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Calling an election would be a face-saving move for Puigdemont as it could either strengthen his mandate if pro-independence parties won or allow him a graceful exit if they did not.
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"Nobody really thinks that the Russians, even it good times, are going to back down, but not giving them a face-saving way out really seals the fate of the treaty," Wolfsthal said.
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The Trump-Xi personal rapport may afford some essential face-saving for the kinds of concessions and backing-off that Xi will need to undertake if a catastrophic showdown is to be avoided.
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Still, it might be the only face-saving way for Trump to get out of the box he created for himself, given that even he may balk at setting off yet another shutdown.
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"The oil market is unlikely to be impressed by any token, face saving agreement from OPEC largely based on production freezes," said Ric Spooner, chief market analyst at CMC Markets, in a note.
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On Thursday, Aquino said the United States moved in quickly to resolve the standoff, brokering a "face-saving" deal by asking both nations to pull out their ships, but only the Philippines withdrew.
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Vietnamese business leaders and experts believe the two sides will reach a face-saving deal over Mr. Thanh, who is accused by Vietnamese officials of enriching himself while running a state construction firm.
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As a face-saving solution, the government is looking into forcing General Dostum into exile in Turkey again, according to one senior Afghan official who was not authorized to speak on the record.
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The United Kingdom and Iran have now each detained a tanker and show signs of trying to negotiate a face-saving swap, which makes further seizures by either side unlikely for the time being.
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For many fests, Haim—whose profile is especially high while they're very aggressively on the album promo cycle—would be an extremely good, face-saving get after the last-minute departure of Frank Ocean.
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Almost as important, all sides in this debate would have found a face-saving yet intelligent way out of our current impasse, which no one seems capable of achieving at this highly divisive moment.
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For all their long-standing and prickly tensions over Kashmir, including several outbreaks of war, India and Pakistan often manage to find effective walkdowns or choreographed face-saving solutions to avoid more costly escalation.
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The Iran nuclear deal is little more than a face-saving piece of paper that allows Iran to keep its nuclear breakout capability — including much of its nuclear infrastructure, expertise, and materials — in place.
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The White House could soon be forced to decide whether to accept minor changes to the accord in a face-saving gesture or withdraw entirely, since neither Canada nor Mexico shows signs of bending.
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Oshan says United's moves thus far have been nothing but face-saving -- and the airline has not provided the family with what they want ... the ID of the person responsible for killing their pet.
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In doing so, President Trump would avoid the policy quagmire just over the horizon, strengthen cooperation with China and give Pyongyang a face-saving way out of the current confrontation before it's too late.
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"We will see a return to heightened tensions, or we'll see some smaller, face-saving arrangement that allows both sides to maintain the current diplomatic process through 2020 without any major concessions," Oba said.
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He probably would not, but his sponsors, especially Russia, have an interest in pressuring him to get on board with such a face-saving initiative before Syria completely disintegrates and all end up losing.
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"The Saudis cannot be allowed to fabricate a face-saving solution to an atrocity that appears to have been directed by the highest levels of their government," Post publisher and CEO Fred Ryan said.
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Katter, however, flagged his concerns about the process before entering the hearing room on Tuesday, telling reporters he was "desperately worried that all we are seeing is a government face-saving farce before an election".
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In part as a face-saving measure, Mr Trump imposed new sanctions that target 14 Iranian individuals and entities, including the head of the Iranian judiciary, Sadeq Larijani, whose brother is the speaker of parliament.
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" Seaman said the tension may spur Japanese and South Korean businesses to "lobby their respective governments — albeit quietly — to seek a face-saving way to prevent the outbreak of a debilitating, full-blown trade war.
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And they hope that Trump has found an exit ramp — a face-saving way to back out of an escalating round of tit-for-tat sanctions that have already begun to hurt Trump Country farmers.
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An adverse judgment could offer an opening for a face saving flaying of the justice system and the perceived unfairness of the political establishment, who Trump has long blamed for seeking to thwart his presidency.
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Gerges sees that proposal as a face-saving exercise for the US that could allow the American troops to stay in small numbers for the fight against ISIS but essentially begin the process of withdrawal.
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Indeed, many of the military veterans and other guests on President Trump's favorite morning TV show said the overnight strikes were merely a face-saving move on Iran's part, not a severe escalation in hostilities.
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Mr Trump and Mr Erdogan need to find a face-saving way for each to declare victory and dial down the aggression, as Mr Erdogan has previously done with Russia and Mr Trump with North Korea.
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The scene had an eerie visual parallel to "The Death of Marat," but the dramaturgy felt like something out of Lillian Hellman — that bygone era when suicide was the only face-saving outcome for gay characters.
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Read more: Activists on two continents work to disrupt Saudi Crown Prince's face-saving tour Argentine legal authorities are currently considering a request from Human Rights Watch to prosecute bin Salman for alleged crimes against humanity.
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That's because both the United States and China seem to be digging into their positions in ways that will be hard to resolve with the mutual face-saving that typically turns high-stakes negotiations into deals.
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Mr. Trump put out a face-saving statement on Mr. Giuliani's behalf on Friday, saying that the former mayor of New York had withdrawn from contention for secretary of state — the only job he had wanted.
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European Commission Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said that while rules had to be respected, he was keen to maintain dialogue with Rome — code for negotiations that would be face-saving for both sides.
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Vincent Brooks, a recently retired US Army general who commanded United States Forces Korea, explained that North Korea will likely make a "face saving move" because Kim "didn't come back with what he wanted" from Hanoi.
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Unlike other recent threats of government collapse, which often seemed engineered as face-saving or distracting measures for either Mr. Di Maio and Mr. Salvini, the drama around Wednesday's vote had a greater sense of urgency.
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Unlike other recent threats of government collapse, which often seemed engineered as face-saving or distracting measures for either Mr. Di Maio and Mr. Salvini, the drama around Wednesday's vote had a greater sense of urgency.
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"If the pain gets too great in the economy and stock market, he will have to find a face-saving solution," said Carter Mack, president and co-founder of JMP Group, a San Francisco-based investment bank.
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The legal and journalistic position would stipulate that either the last scene occurred as it was initially written, as a manhunt, or it occurred as she later described it — as a mourning ritual and face-saving ceremony.
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It's easy to believe that the sale of Uber China's operations to its closest rival is a face-saving exercise, an inevitable outcome for a U.S. company that tried to beat the odds and succeed in China.
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And yet on the phone call Tuesday, Mr. Idol categorically rejected any suggestion that Ms. Versace would leave the brand after a face-saving amount of time had elapsed, or that another designer would be brought in.
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Though past peace plans all accepted Israel's need to secure its borders and prevent an armed state from arising alongside it, they sought to fashion face-saving arrangements, such as letting Israel "lease" rather than annex territory.
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The seemingly eased demands on Qatar made by the four Arab countries that have severed relations with it are an insincere "face-saving approach" to resolving the Persian Gulf crisis, Qatar's United Nations ambassador said on Wednesday.
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Possible end game: Mr. Trump again raised the option of declaring a national emergency and ordering the wall constructed himself, which could be a face-saving way out but could also be a violation of constitutional norms.
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Prime Minister Imran Khan said Pakistan would release the captured Indian pilot, Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, today, offering both countries a face-saving way out of a tense crisis that left much of the world on edge.
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"Chernobyl" pulls back the Iron Curtain, revealing the incompetence that allowed the disaster to occur in 1986 and the face-saving contortions by the Kremlin that complicated efforts to address the crisis in an open and expeditious manner.
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Apart from being face-saving exercises, accounts of Boko Haram's imminent destruction may also be an attempt by the Buhari regime to misdirect attention from the myriad issues which have -- and continue to -- hamper its counter-insurgency strategy.
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"Back (in 2012) there was a deal which was on the horizon, and there was a ramp off for all sides in a face-saving manner," says Mohammed Ali Shabani, Iran Pulse Editor at Al-Monitor media website.
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This is yet another example of a platform ignoring adult content when it helps the platform flourish, and then leaving those users out to dry when it's time to crack down for some monetary gain or face-saving.
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The U.S. and China "seem to be digging into their positions in ways that will be hard to resolve with the mutual face-saving that typically turns high-stakes negotiations into deals," Neil Irwin of the NYT writes.
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"We expect OPEC to agree to a face-saving statement ... (but) U.S. tight oil producers can grow production at $50-$55 (per barrel) and will capitalize on any opportunity afforded to them by an OPEC cut," the bank said.
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But Mr. Gantz and his team, who have been working for months behind the scenes with Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, and David M. Friedman, the ambassador to Israel, ultimately landed on a face-saving middle ground.
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Hannity reached for the face-saving comparison of President Ronald Reagan ending a summit with Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik in 1986 when the Soviet leader demanded an end to a US plan for a space-based missile defense system.
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But if the battle with Congress is more about spectacle than policy, the emergency route could offer the president a face-saving way to sign a bill re-opening the government while pursuing an alternative strategy for funding his wall.
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Sometimes it is merely a face-saving excuse for freeing someone whose release could help China's diplomatic efforts (in this case a likely aim was to butter up Germany as a potential ally in China's battle with America over trade).
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Acknowledging deep divisions between Berlin and Paris over European reform, leading German and French economists have urged both capitals to shift their stances, warning that a face-saving "small bargain" would not make the euro area more stable.
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Brzeski said a "relatively reasonable and face-saving compromise" for German policy makers and the ECB would be to announce a so-called tapering in the summer, namely a further reduction of the monthly QE purchases from January 2018 onwards.
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Alternatively, by playing down expectations that the summit will happen the President could be preparing a face-saving exit for himself -- or indulging in a bit of pre-summit negotiating -- on television where Kim can see exactly what he is saying.
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President Trump's new national security adviser, John Bolton, was eager to find a face-saving way to remove Keith Kellogg from his senior role on the National Security Council, three sources with knowledge of the high-level internal conversations tell Axios.
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" She offered a face-saving explanation: "I have no personal repugnance to the idea of a union with you — but I feel convinced that mine is not the sort of disposition calculated to form the happiness of a man like you.
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The distinction between being transferred and released could be a face-saving way out for the Trump team, said Robert Chesney, a law professor at the University of Texas, Austin, who worked on an Obama administration detention policy task force.
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The savvy move by Washington would be to find a face-saving way to back down from the escalating rhetoric and to stop giving Kim Jong-un what he wants: propaganda victories and a justification to keep building bombs and missiles.
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Last month, North Carolina passed a face-saving reversal of its bill that prevented transgendered people from using the bathroom of their choice after a host of companies and organizations, including the N.C.A.A., said they wouldn't do business in the state.
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While he's doing everything he can to make the election about himself -- touting a two-year record he says is the best of any president ever -- Trump is also laying the groundwork for a face-saving operation if things go wrong.
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"The direct assassination of Soleimani by the United States is a naked challenge and Iran has to carry out a major face-saving act to respond," said Mohanad Hage Ali, a fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut.
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But the U.S. government has not clearly defined its desired end state for its Iran policy or outlined a face-saving path for Iran's rulers that would allow them to deescalate steadily mounting tensions between Washington and Tehran, experts say.
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While many on both sides are likely looking for a face-saving solution to the trade war, there are longstanding concerns that not just the U.S. but many other countries and companies have had about China's actions over the years, he said.
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For all of these reasons, I would not be surprised if, in the next few months, the new leader of the Conservative Party were to find a nice face-saving strategy to escape the Brexit process, or at least postpone it sine die.
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Analyst Richard Nephew said whether Trump's conditions could be met depended on whether he wants a face-saving way to live with the nuclear deal with the political cover of tough-sounding U.S. legislation, or whether he really wants the deal rewritten.
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But other potential outcomes are a replay of what has come before: merely face-saving gestures of engagement and a huge financial bonus package for Pyongyang with deleterious political, security and economic consequences for South Korea, Washington, Tokyo, and to an extent, Beijing.
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Thanks to HBO's nerve-shredding 2019 miniseries, the lethal secrecy and bureaucratic hubris of the Kremlin's response, and its preference for face-saving over life-saving that filtered all the way down through to local officials, were laid bare for a new generation.
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Several analysts said they already saw hints that Mr. Erdogan might be exploring a face-saving retreat for both sides — for example, by allowing the crown prince to acknowledge Mr. Khashoggi's death but pin the blame on some rogue element in his government.
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Eventually, American negotiators concluded after years of running into walls that it would be better to leave Iran with a face-saving token capability for 15 years, and vigorous international inspections, than walk away with no agreement and the real prospect of war.
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"The Chinese government is preparing the public for a protracted and costly trade war, while remaining open to a face-saving deal," said Jessica Chen Weiss, an associate professor of government at Cornell University who studies Chinese foreign policy and public opinion.
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Kushner, who has seen his influence in the White House shrink, may receive a "face-saving" exit as he deals with legal challenges related to a special counsel's investigation of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign's potential ties to Russia, one of the sources said.
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If Iran, despite its bluster following the missile attack, was avoiding casualties, it could indicate that the attack was designed as a face-saving response after its promise to seek revenge — something it could sell back home without necessarily triggering retaliatory US strikes.
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The President's insistence that his behavior is "perfect" and his tight hold on conservative voters has even deprived GOP lawmakers of a face-saving defense that was once used by Bill Clinton's partisans -- that what he did was unacceptable but not impeachable.
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Still, the President did open a face-saving way out for himself by claiming -- without offering any evidence -- that for the first time in "decades" Mexico had started to apprehend "thousands of people" on its territory from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.
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It looks as if negotiators of the deal made on Friday simply ramped up the scale of these agreements to give Trump a face-saving way to back down from tariffs that threatened the American economy as well as the Mexican one.
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Diplomatic sources said having Friedman work out of the consulate, at least until the waiver expires, could give the incoming administration time to think through the consequences of relocating the embassy and find a face-saving way to back out of Trump's campaign pledge.
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"Facing the prospect of another sharp fall in oil prices, OPEC has finally put forward the face-saving measure that they hope will keep a floor on oil prices until the next demand season arrives," a team at Barclays said in a note on Thursday.
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Instead, China, with its "One Belt, One Road" ambitions of improving links with central Asia and Europe, "wants a face-saving solution" that would allow it to advance its other economic interests if it shelves Myitsone, said a top government official familiar with discussions.
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Not the first time It is not the first time that Trump has made such arguments -- he complained against the "rigged" system during last year's election in a gambit seen at the time as a face-saving hedge against a possible loss to Hillary Clinton.
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FDP chief Christian Lindner underscored the importance of good ties with Moscow for Germany and the European Union, and said it might be necessary to "encapsulate" the Crimea issue in order to offer Russian President Vladimir Putin face-saving options to change his policies.
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A week of all-consuming chaos has caused many political junkies to wonder whether Trump might not make it all the way to Election Day—or even to the GOP convention in Cleveland next month—before finding some face-saving excuse for dropping out.
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It would make it more difficult for the two governments to come up with a face-saving story blaming Mr. Khashoggi's disappearance on some third party, on rogue elements of the Saudi security forces, or on an accident during an interrogation that went wrong.
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If GOP leadership invents a face-saving way to vote "yes," like promising that Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price will use some unspecified regulatory authority to make sure nothing bad ever happens to anyone, perhaps the Senate will pass the hot potato, too.
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Over the past few days, the military has been in negotiations to find a peaceful and face-saving way for Mr. Mugabe to exit the scene, in talks mediated by South Africa and other countries in the region, and by the Roman Catholic Church.
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A Qatari official involved in the process said Doha looked for a "face-saving" way to salvage talks when Trump canceled a meeting in September with Taliban leaders at Camp David after the group claimed an attack in Kabul that killed a U.S. soldier.
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The Houthis will not return to the bargaining table unless they are weaker militarily, and the Saudis need a face-saving way to justify a two-year war that has damaged their image abroad as military errors have exposed weaknesses in the Saudi armed forces.
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You know, the one whose "unpresidented" ascent gave us a leader who says he is "honered" by his office, is not "bought and payed for," was once victim of a "tapp" on his phones, and is obviously unfamiliar with the face-saving virtues of autocorrect.
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Rehman Malik, a former interior minister and a member of the opposition Pakistan People's Party, said in an interview that the latest showdown had been averted after the government and Mr. Khan's party agreed on a face-saving arrangement for both sides behind the scenes.
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If anything, the story of Bombshell is a dark and pessimistic one — the tale of an institution that systematically devalues its female employees' humanity, where any change was purely cosmetic, face-saving, a way to stop the gap in a dam they helped build.
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In what appeared to be a face-saving move, the ministry said schools that voluntarily used the state textbooks on a trial basis next year would receive a subsidy; from 2018 onward, it said, schools would be free to choose between the two options.
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But Mr. Trump's threatened move offers both sides a face-saving solution in the budget standoff between the president and congressional Democrats that has prompted a partial government shutdown, which, if it lasts to Saturday, will be at 22 days the longest in American history.
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President Trump said he would "probably" declare a state of emergency, which would allow him to circumvent Congress to find funds for his wall — and allow him a face-saving way to sign spending bills that don't pay for it, ending the government shutdown.
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The memo from the White House counsel appeared to be a face-saving way for the White House to redraft the executive order without incurring the embarrassment of actually having Trump sign a new executive order that eliminated the impact on green card holders.
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"The tables have turned now and it's going to be increasingly difficult for both sides to find a compromise that is face-saving for both … and benefits both parties," Corrine Png, regional head of equities research at AIA Investment Management, told CNBC's "Street Signs" on Friday.
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It is a reflection of the weakness of Mr Kerry's negotiating position and the bankruptcy of Barack Obama's timid Syria policy that America now appears ready to go along with any face-saving proposal made by Mr Lavrov on behalf of his boss in the Kremlin.
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But there's real suspense on both sides, as their challengers seek to emerge from the state with a face-saving prize: a cache of delegates or at least a symbolic victory that would vindicate the resources they plowed into such a big, expensive and politically dangerous state.
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The appropriations bills Democrats passed in the House had included the VA mission costs, meaning that a deal to offset the costs from the caps could provide a face-saving path for Democrats to keep their overall nondefense level while technically lowering the cap by $9 billion.
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But in the last few days, as major American businesses have withdrawn from a marquee investment conference in Riyadh and members of Congress have stepped up calls for sanctions, the United States, Turkey and Saudi Arabia appear to have been searching for a face-saving way out.
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"If the markets take a nose-dive as we move closer to the midterm elections," Mr. Kennedy of the Center for Strategic and International Studies said, "that would put some pressure on Trump to look for face-saving solutions, even if final problems haven't been addressed."
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So, whatever the outcome of this immediate crisis over the shooting down of the drone (in which each side says the other is the aggressor), we're facing very real risks of a cycle of escalation, without good face-saving exit ramps for either Trump or Khamenei.
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"This administration's maximum pressure campaign, and Pompeo's 12 demands from Tehran, leaves little room for Iran to conduct face-saving negotiations," Geranmayeh said, echoing the concerns of many who fear that Washington has left no room for Iran to walk back its threats and come to the table.
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Perhaps more important, the departure of the post-revolution leadership, which Russia has accused of coming to power on the back of a coup, could offer a face-saving means for Moscow to find a way out of the conflict with Ukraine — and relief from some Western economic sanctions.
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He went with his gut, poorly prepared -- a well prepared summit doesn't end without even a minor face-saving document -- and had another face-to-face meeting, an approach that has so far helped to cement Kim's rule by bolstering his standing at home and in the international community.
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Their new House legislation may try to fix parts of the Affordable Care Act, or promote other health reforms, but the repeal effort is dead, and whatever Ryan is cooking up is probably more of a face-saving retreat so House Republicans don't have to say they've abandoned a campaign promise.
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The dual leadership in Seattle proved untenable, and in a face-saving compromise in May 1987, a commission of American bishops appointed by the Vatican recommended instead that the more moderate Bishop Thomas J. Murphy of Montana be installed as assistant archbishop, and that full powers be restored to Archbishop Hunthausen.
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Is this your average face-saving exit for a startup that struggled to raise more money; a genuine acquisition of useful IP/engineering experience; a simple way to fully staff a new SF office; or a way to bring on new executives to a company that could really use them right now?
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The current tensions between Moscow and Ankara, said Mr. Trenin, have delivered a "severe reality check to the relationship," but left some hope the two leaders, each accustomed to getting his own way, can overcome more hawkish members of their military and political establishments to find a face-saving, if only temporary, compromise.
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Conventional wisdom among House moderates is that the Senate will rip this bill to shreds, and so the best strategy is to strike a face-saving compromise and pass it out of the House so Senate Republicans can do the work of either killing it or crafting something that's not a disaster.
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For multiple geopolitical and domestic political reasons, the administration has far more to gain from helping engineer a face-saving exit for itself and its ally from its biggest foreign policy crisis in nearly two years in office than by making an example of the Saudis in a belated stand for human rights.
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Providing some money for border security -- personnel or equipment designed to crack down on illegal crossings -- but not for the wall itself, could provide a face-saving way for both sides to end for now their dispute on the issue and could clear the way for the massive government bill to pass both chambers ahead of Friday.
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Naomi's crucial, face-saving deal with an upstart tech company run by a grabby man-child (Samuel Roukin) is central to the action, but other sidelines — Naomi's lover Michael (James Purefoy), who plays her for insider intel; Sam's developing case against Michael's boss; Erin's secret pregnancy and second thoughts about her career — all crowd the narrative considerably.
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Tom GravesJohn (Tom) Thomas GravesGOP scores procedural win by securing more funding to enforce Iran sanctions Bipartisan bill would enable companies to defend themselves against cyberattacks Republicans spend more than million at Trump properties MORE (R-Ga.) suggested that the final compromise could be found in face-saving measures that would allow both sides to declare victory.
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In particular, nobody knows whether Mr Trump's national-security team, who also want to preserve the deal, can persuade the president to accept some face-saving compromise in which more sanctions are targeted on individuals connected to the missile programme and support for terrorist groups, while the Europeans undertake to try to tweak the nuclear deal over time.
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It was unclear whether Mr. Trump believed that the agreement truly represented new and broader concessions, or whether the president understood the limits of the deal but accepted it as a face-saving way to escape from the political and economic consequences of imposing tariffs on Mexico, which he began threatening less than two weeks ago.
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If, however, Russia, or China, or Iran, or another revisionist powers were to conclude that Trump could be ignored and accidentally pushed him to a point at which he feels compelled to respond, that could trigger a crisis from which no one has a face-saving way out; and those have the potential to spiral out of control.
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" THE TICK TOCK: -- "The Iranian missile strike on American facilities in Iraq was a calibrated event intended to cause minimal casualties, give the Iranians a face-saving measure and provide an opportunity for both sides to step back from the brink of war, according to senior U.S. officials in Washington and the Middle East," per Shane Harris, Josh Dawsey, Dan Lamothe and Missy Ryan. "U.
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As part of the agreement announced on Friday, Mexico agreed to deploy its newly formed national guard throughout the country, diverting it from domestic priorities, and to expand a program that makes some migrants wait in Mexico while their asylum claims are heard in the U.S. It was unclear whether Mr. Trump saw these as truly new concessions or a face-saving way to defuse his tariff threat.
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At the same time, he's taking the world closer to the brink with North Korea, exacerbating a nuclear crisis with no clear face saving exit for himself or dictator Kim Jong Un. And he took another blow on the chin on Tuesday night, when his favored candidate lost Alabama's Republican Senate primary to Roy Moore, an iconoclast who showed up to vote on horseback and who makes his own theatrics seem tame.
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