Cornyn was asked if that approach would save face for Democrats who could say they didn't fund the "wall" and save face for Republicans who can say they boosted border security.
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" "They're two strong leaders who want to save face.
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She's in full victim mode to try to save face.
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This turns out to be an excuse to save face.
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Rogozin is likely trying to save face amid the current embarrassment.
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And they now have to figure out how to save face.
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"They're just trying to save face to their people," he said.
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AND I GUESS CHINA WOULD HAVE TO SAVE FACE AS WELL.
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"It's a way for both sides to save face," she said.
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Or, a nation-state would sell it just to save face.
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You've got to calm him down and let him save face.
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The lack of American casualties allows him to save face, too.
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That's because it sounded stupid, and Regina wanted to save face.
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These anti-Trump GOP elites publicly opposing him may be trying to save face just like the rich aunt embarrassed by the groom is trying to save face among her snooty friends at her country club.
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More than that, though: She clearly wasn't pretending, just to save face.
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More importantly, does Russia even need to save face to begin with?
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The inaction helped Toshiba executives save face, at least for a while.
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Trump could only conjure up a few distorted facts to save face.
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Obama is partly trying to save face after Hillary Clinton's devastating loss.
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Still, Nick tries to save face and convince Gypsy the message will work.
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The problem is that any compromise must allow both sides to save face.
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Allowing Khrushchev to save face was instrumental in getting him to back down.
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Their efforts to save face suggest these grades are really getting to them.
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He has just a short time left to decide how to save face.
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But, when the origin of the disclosure is uncertain, all parties save face.
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There's no reason why we should mutilate a song just to save face.
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Perhaps the administration is using every storyline it can think up to save face.
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Gone are the days when democratic pretenses were required of autocrats to save face.
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As news of the censored works quickly went viral, officials scrambled to save face.
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If you ask the advertisers, businesses will absolutely save face and pull their ads.
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Though further concessions will have to allow Xi to save face, they will come.
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Smith is allowed to save face by retiring with his $18 million pension intact.
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Iran's reaction to Solemani was tempered enough to not provoke Trump but save face.
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Critics view this action as an attempt to save face on his wall promises.
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Hoping to save face, the Saudis claimed it was in fact they who disinvited her.
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"But you did like another idea of mine," I added quickly, trying to save face.
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Or could it be that they were really fired and being allowed to save face?
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You might reasonably expect the candidate you're rooting for to abandon you to save face.
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President Xi, like Trump, wants to save face and appear victorious in this trade war.
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"They're not doing it for me, they are doing it to save face," she said.
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Does another Drake record exist or is this an attempt for Drake to save face?
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Too often, he said, people are reluctant to admit they are wrong, to save face.
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Trump on Thursday ordered an investigation into the leaks in an effort to save face.
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But many bishops would rather save face than prevent the ruin of bodies and souls.
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It&aposs a matter of how, to your point, do you save face and resolve it?
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Whatever his brutalities, and they were many, Operation Just Cause was, in truth, Operation Save Face.
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Arie's just trying to save face and no one wants to watch Becca go through this.
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Should I help my cousin save face, or should I warn the parents of potential playmates?
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It's kind of like a Catch-22: They're trying to save face; they want [more diversity].
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Maybe the White House is just trying to save face after an embarrassing loss to CNN.
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How do you ship nukes out of North Korea and yet allow Kim to save face?
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To save face, a guest from a rival village might counter with an even bigger feast.
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So now that Schumer's proposal has been rejected, Republicans merely see an effort to save face.
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It attacks our basic instincts to save face, and makes it hard to ask for help.
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Some predict that a military crackdown before October is inevitable, as Beijing seeks to save face.
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Because you got a lot of people who will put up a front, to save face.
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Taylor is feeling good, having made a family-friendly investment to save face in the Brazilian fiasco.
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" He accused Brazilian authorities of trying to "save face" after allowing the incident to become "a circus.
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An emotionally powerful account of rape on US campuses and how the schools work to save face.
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Companies aren't just tapping into sustainability initiatives to save face anymore — they're looking to change the world.
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But the porn czar's formal send off is likely nothing more than an attempt to save face.
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The official said the Kremlin appeared to be "trying to save face" with the Friday morning statement.
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"To save face is infinitely more fulfilling for my mother than living in comfort," Yan told me.
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There will be universal calls for restraint, talks, off-ramps, allowing the Chinese to save face, etc.
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The reality is those people could be unhappy and that's their way of trying to save face.
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But people close to the White House described the campaign job as a way to save face.
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But if that outcome does materialize, it may offer one way for party leaders to save face.
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To save face, this person needn't be called a monarch — "first American" or "sovereign citizen" will do.
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The fear of shame and a need to "save face" are also particularly acute in Asian culture.
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Dealt a bad hand, the only play Speaker Pelosi has left is to try to save face.
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In an effort to save face, we resort to making up excuses when we back out of plans.
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This is just the latest effort for Samsung to try to save face after the Note 7 debacle.
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Save Face: I subscribe to the "less is more" philosophy when it comes to most things, makeup included.
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As is often the case, Trump is likely posturing on Twitter to save face and influence media coverage.
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His effort to save face, in the process of announcing a retreat of Napoleonic dimensions, was almost heroic.
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The theory goes that with Coppins calling him out, Trump had to run for president to save face.
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China shows it won't cave to Trump to save face, but offers him something small to take home.
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It would've allowed Abadi to "save face...while avoiding the trauma of Iraqi forces taking over" the city.
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If they think you're trying to minimize the bad news in order to save face, they'll remember it.
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His expected decision to decertify the agreement would allow him to save face and dent Barack Obama's legacy.
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There is no real reason to cut these payments, other than to save face and conceal the farce.
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You're in the wrong, because it's their bench, but you have to save face, because they were impolite.
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He'll have a chance to save face when he takes on Björnsson again in future GWR Italian Show episodes.
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Something tells us this unlikely pair isn't going away any time soon, even if it's only to save face.
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That same pen gets passed along to the Chinese, to save face after the guests out-gift their hosts.
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This whole unity thing doesn't count if it's a centrist Democrat trying to save face with their corporate patrons.
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The users says the whole state-sponsored hacking thing was bogus, and Yahoo said it just to save face.
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Just give the offenders something so they and you can save face and we can leave the region permanently.
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Passing something, anything, at the eleventh hour would help the party save face and move on to other matters.
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Another way to let someone save face—and this is particularly appropriate for group settings —is to play dumb.
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By pinning the blame on Al Jazeera, Mr. Netanyahu sought to save face with his critics on the right.
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Just give the offenders something so they and you can save face, and we can leave the region permanently.
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"My job is to create a situation where people can comply with me and still save face," he said.
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Trump did his best to save face in a press conference on Friday in the White House Rose Garden.
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In the end, their reputations are ruined anyway, and they have to live with what they did to save face.
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"They're not doing it for me, they are doing it to save face," said Bonnie Kimball, the former lunchroom employee.
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This allows Mr Kahlon to save face, while serving Mr Netanyahu's purpose of squelching the independence of the corporation's journalists.
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"It's a fig leaf, but the KMT is going to be desperate for something to save face," Mr. Sullivan said.
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And Jimmy fibs in return, "That's me," still hoping to save face in front of the woman he cares about.
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Meanwhile guy who wants to replace her issues a prelude to resignation, to save face over 350 million pounds. Hmm.
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The documentary -- which airs Sunday on the History Channel -- claims the U.S. government covered it all up to save face.
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It's hard to see Trump's tweets as anything other than a way to save face after 48 hours of embarrassment.
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Netanyahu is delaying a bill that annexes the settlements and this statement today is a means to save face politically.
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" Earlier this summer, Haley said Russian President Vladimir Putin's denials of such interference were merely an effort to "save face.
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"Maybe she was trying to save face," one contestant responds asked why Corrine had described the situation in such terms.
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Some make explicit, even graphic, references to menstrual fluid, while others were clearly developed to save face in polite company.
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When we don't want to cry in front of other people, is there anything we can do to save face?
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But it seemed as if all it would do was save face for a team headed for a humiliating defeat.
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No one was killed or injured in those strikes, which appeared designed to save face rather than to inflict casualties.
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This would not be driven by machismo or a desire to save face, but by the stark logic of warfare.
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"Iran has to find the proper response to save face, but not escalate the fight to traditional warfare," said Bort.
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This latest disclosure lets her save face without having responsibilities to the Native community she's claiming to share heritage with.
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Genovés capitalized on this concept's popularity to save face (one gets the sense he doesn't quite buy his own bullshit).
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Presumably, someone on Team Hemsworth took the time to edit out the stains and, in turn, save face for one Odin.
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But critics of the school think that Pepperdine might have requested the withdrawal of its decades-old exemption to save face.
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The danger of this approach, however, is that it could lead to perseverance with a stupid strategy, just to save face.
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In the long run, it looks like Wikileaks lost credibility in this election, and now it's just trying to save face.
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The worried experts feared Mr Trump, in his eagerness to save face and make a deal, would make a bad deal.
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So in you charge — dispensing Likes to the good and the underrated, perhaps attempting to save face for the unfairly ratio'd.
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And they must do so in a way that will allow establishment Republicans to save face and not look like traitors.
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The attorney, who was leaving a restaurant in L.A. Monday, thinks prosecutors unwisely jumped for a retrial just to save face.
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The institutional integrity of his agency was too important for him to risk it to help a political candidate save face.
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Speaking in Beijing, Putin said the sentence looked like an attempt by U.S. law enforcement and judicial officials to save face.
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Where it flattens, it is likely due to the underwriting banks buying more shares to save face, as they often do.
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From a former member, this is just another convenient pivot to save face with society and the church's increasingly disaffected youth.
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Unfortunately, because of boomer pride, they tell people that we live with them and "pay rent" in order to save face.
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They'll both need to be able to save face through whatever deal or arrangement is reached," he told CNBC's "Capital Connection.
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It might save face for him, it would show him who his supporters really are and we could reopen the government.
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Markus Huber, a trader at City of London Markets, said he expected a deal that would allow both sides to save face.
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But of course when things don't go well, developers need a way to save face and find a way to sell properties.
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This year, the company apparently tried to save face by trying something new—focusing on the connections people make through the platform.
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The step might be as simple as putting aside any past ugliness or creating a way the other person could save face.
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I couldn't tell if he was just trying to save face and/or impress me with the persuasive power of his penis.
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Any agreement to keep the government open depends on allowing the president to save face as he falls away from the wall.
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It's an almost reflexive ruse so you can move through the awkward moment and perhaps allow the other person to save face.
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Or was this a show for the public, to try to save face from the bill's humiliating defeat a couple weeks ago?
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Even the shittiest klingons, like the murderous Duras clan, purport to backstab and hide nasty secrets to save face for their honor.
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The compromise position allows the White House to respond to frustration inside and outside the administration while allowing Azar to save face.
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All the last viceroy could hope to achieve — by hastening the end of imperial rule — was to save face for the empire.
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The fact that the British did not take it in perpetuity was an attempt to help the enfeebled Qing dynasty save face.
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But whatever they had decided was preempted by Trump's attempt to save face by firing people who had or were likely to quit.
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This, in turn, was misinterpreted by many on the left as Clinton rewarding her for malfeasance rather than simply letting her save face.
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To save face, I begrudgingly tell her my girlfriend said "Feelings" reminded her of Michael Jackson's "The Way You Make Me Feel" video.
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When you put those together, this principally appears to be a way for Trump to save face without having to suffer the consequences.
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Certain Republicans who have lost to me would rather save face by fighting me than see the U.S.Supreme Court get proper appointments. Sad!
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Nor is it surprising that to save face, the Russian government blamed someone else for its own incompetence, and that of its ally.
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So last month, in order to save face, and to discourage other towns from taking similar measures, Uber and Lyft suspended their services.
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UPDATE: Enner Valencia issued a statement telling his side of the story about this owed child support, in an attempt to save face.
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It attacks our basic instincts to save face, and makes it hard to ask for help … But more structured programs are arising, too.
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Above all, Taylor said, be honest with yourself about whether you really want the job — or whether you're just trying to "save face."
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" Coculuzzi didn't find much solace in Wong's statement, arguing it was an apology "to save face" and "a way to shrug off responsibility.
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On "The Goldbergs," Barry asks his longtime crush Lainey to the prom; when he's rejected he resorts to a prank to save face.
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This one ended after the Dems stayed united, while the Republicans essentially gave in and accepted a small Obamacare concession to save face.
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Let us imagine that he evades the truth, or tells a lie, perhaps to save face, perhaps to spare the ones he loves.
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They speculate that he may not have enough support to win the vote under current conditions and is bowing out to save face.
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Getting Wasserman Schultz to step down is one way for him to save face without looking like a sellout to his own supporters.
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And did so again: The only reason President Obama wants to attack Syria is to save face over his very dumb RED LINE statement.
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The last of the options — to continue to buy Iranian oil, but to buy less of it — might allow the Europeans to save face.
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And as the report shows, the company went through exorbitant lengths to save face, from calling in political favors, to going on charm offenses.
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"If you notice in that conversation, what Trump is trying to do is to save face in front of his voters," Fox said Friday.
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Significant gains could help save face for a president who has seen a lot of Democratic officeholders go down to defeat during his presidency.
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He attempted to save face by saying the deputy adviser would be transferred to an unspecified job, but no one should accept this fiction.
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Either Immelt didn't like what he heard from the directors, or he felt he wouldn't get the nod and decided to preemptively save face.
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Whatever its impact on user numbers, Twitter's anti-abuse measures may help it save face during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on September 5.
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He also said Lam was unable to retain her job, even if Beijing keeps her in place for the time being to save face.
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Now, the only sure way for universities to save face is to treat survivors with respect and investigate their claims as thoroughly as possible.
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Their relationship was considered so badly frayed that a bipartisan group of lawmakers intervened to help them save face and temporarily end the impasse.
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Brown also suggested that the president has attempted to intervene now in order to save face, suggesting Trump isn't truly invested in the issue.
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To save face, UEFA bigwigs threatened the team with expulsion, prompting Arkan to officially quit his role at the club on 22003 July 211.
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" She added: "Paramount to the entire Palin family is the health and welfare of Sailor Grace," and claimed that Meyer is trying to "save face.
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It was incredibly big of Robert — who we've come to know as pretty darn immature — to help Frances save face in front of her parents.
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"The only reason President Obama wants to attack Syria is to save face over his very dumb RED LINE statement," he tweeted in September 2013.
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"He does a lot of things to save face," Barbara Res, a former Trump Organization vice president, told CNN's Brian Stelter on Reliable Sources Sunday.
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Instead, he may be asked to perform a different kind of surgery, helping to save face for the show, which has a mostly female audience.
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One can imagine Democrats agreeing to modestly increase border-security funding beyond $1.6bn—enough to let Mr Trump save face, claim victory and reopen government.
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What will he do if Raul Castro, needing to save face in the wake of our backhanded slap, suddenly turns on his heel towards Moscow?
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I think they're doing it [to] just try and save face, but they keep it in the background because they don't want to hurt themselves.
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Desperate to save face and please her overbearing parents, she kidnaps a handsome gentleman and forces him to pose as her boyfriend for the holidays.
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As the league scrambled to save face in China, lawmakers at home from both parties ripped the NBA, accusing it of putting profit over principle.
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So far, however, the administration is unwilling to allow Putin to save face and even more averse to pressuring Kiev to delay its NATO aspirations.
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Desperate to save face, the president and his team cooked up a nonemergency emergency with the aim of seizing funds already appropriated for other purposes.
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After saying that murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi Arabian operatives was a "mistake," Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is trying to save face.
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"I think it was a genuine olive branch, something that allows the Chinese government to save face [and] start buying some American ag products," he said.
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Jankowicz: I think as we've seen with a few other nations, I think including the United States, there is some effort to save face among governments.
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Elon Musk has attempted to save face on Twitter after a demonstration meant to show off the toughness of Tesla&aposs new Cybertruck pickup went awry.
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Stocks became intensely undervalued, a wave of takeovers ensued, and executives started aggressively buying back their stocks to try and save face in a chaotic marketplace.
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Aaron Carter is dedicating some serious real estate on his neck for the king of the jungle -- not that he's trying to save face or anything.
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Well, if you've held out on getting an Echo in order to save face and make use of your old speaker, now you can have both.
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If Trump put his weight behind Lee's proposal, enough Republican senators might have been convinced to vote against the House resolution, allowing Trump to save face.
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And part of Amabella's stress is that she notices, despite her mother's best efforts to save face, that her mother is in some kind of turmoil.
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One theory in the capital is that the courts will pass relatively lenient sentences, and that some kind of quiet compromise will be found to save face.
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Apparently Mr. Loeb and his counsel, knowing that he was about to lose decided to attempt to save face by taking their proverbial ball and going home.
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To save face, the social network should dismantle its News Feed and start over with something that either treats media differently or doesn't allow it at all.
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But a Drake mention in 2016 can make or break a brand, and in an attempt to save face Chrysler decided to respond to the 6 God.
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His constituents are hardliners in the politburo, which is why he will never give in without getting something big in return that enables him to save face.
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As a way to save face, Obama acquiesced to a Russian proposal for Assad to remove or destroy all his chemical weapons by the middle of 2014.
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Mr. Kim's two sudden and unannounced meetings with Mr. Xi recently are, more than anything, a remarkable diplomatic show, mainly designed to allow China to save face.
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But if we write back to our attackers appreciatively, and offer a way to save face, 90 percent of the time the next email is totally transformed.
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Gia Gunn's calling BS on Trisha Paytas -- not just for announcing she's transgender ... but for her ensuing apology she believes was just an attempt to save face.
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It allows Iran to save face and show their strength, but without giving the U.S. an excuse to continue to escalate without looking like the bad guys.
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Or they could even redistrict Meehan's home into another Republican district, pressuring him to save face and retire instead of running against a fellow Republican House member.
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We can only hope that this is an embarrassing attempt to save face and not something that Wei Lei actually tells himself to rationalize his inability to fight.
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If enough Republicans jump on board, the bill could still pass while letting some of the more vulnerable Democrats and Republicans vote against the bill to save face.
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Since Simmons has daughters now, Hines said he is probably just trying to save face, but she wants the hip hop icon to take responsibility for his actions.
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"A December increase is still likely, perhaps for no better reason than to save face for the FOMC members," said Chris Gaffney, president of world markets at EverBank.
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They want to protect the downside; if they can find a way to save face and kick the can to February or March, they're going to do it.
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Market observers had hoped that the meeting's participants could strike a 'gentleman's agreement' that would at least save face and serve as a bridge to June's OPEC meeting.
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He tried to lower expectations as much as he could, presenting himself as a mere entertainer, mostly to save face in case the whole thing was a disaster.
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When they wed, Blair was in love with someone else (Chuck) and Prince Louis was sacrificing his own happiness just to save face in the world of royals.
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The question now is, how will Russia be able to save face in front of its allies in the event that it is forced to make Bashar leave?
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It was only after Cohen was caught for tax evasion and other personal financial misdeeds, he began lying about President Trump in an effort to save face. pic.twitter.
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If someone else is present, yelling "Five-second rule!" prior to swallowing may save face—or just serve as a warning that you don't want to hear it.
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Whether Lopetegui is simply trying to save face or not is not even really the issue here, because the job shouldn't have been open at this point anyway.
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"I think they are just trying to save face in the House and couldn't care less what happens to it in the Senate," one GOP lobbyist told me.
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The Warriors managed to save face in the immediate wake of the suspension, beating the lowly Atlanta Hawks, 110-103, on Tuesday thanks to 29 points from Durant.
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" When Varner then tried to save face by reminding everyone he was just trying to win a million dollars, contestant Tai Trang exclaimed in horror, "[By] outing somebody?!
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Then he tweets about destroying the economy as the backlash builds, and this appears to be an attempt to save face/get a re-do on the call.
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"Aggressive offers make it hard for parties to save face or declare victory later in the negotiation process — and this is especially crucial in politics," Mr. Malhotra said.
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Just 2235 months after launch, Secret's co-founder tried to save face by pulling the plug himself, sending Secret to the anonymous app graveyard alongside Yik Yak, Ask.
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Chloe does not initially believe the gossip, and thinks that Jessica was lying about hooking up with Bryce in order to save face with her boyfriend Justin (Brandon Flynn).
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A "cult of toughness" at the top levels of the US government could also tip the balance towards using nuclear weapons when it's necessary in order to save face.
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It would allow the Syrian Kurds to save face, and keep a hold of the strategically important city of Kobani and a large swathe of northern parts of Syria.
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However, it appears that the "honest mistake" may have been buried by PwC and senior finance executives in an effort to save face, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Rejoining the TPP and reopening China BIT negotiations would allow both President Trump and President Xi to save face while requiring China agree to a stronger system of enforcement.
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A disappearing messages feature would offer WhatsApp's massive user base greater privacy and — of course — a way for users to save face if they send a message they regret.
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Not even six months after she uttered "shut up and dribble," and then tried to save face amid advertising boycotts and public shame, Laura Ingraham's audience continues to grow.
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No small amount of the momentum that thrust the country into crisis was the desire to save face by both men, who were playing to vastly different political constituencies.
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Though it's not the "skinny deal" that would more easily pass, it does offer Democrats a number of benefits and a chance to save face after the shutdown mess.
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It led to brothers fighting, Nessa screaming, Lucious instructing cameras to capture it all for streaming numbers, and poor Cookie trying to save face, frantically unplugging cords and blocking screens.
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If that's the case, North Korea's overtures toward the US have been low risk — North Korea doesn't have to give up much and manages to allow Trump to save face.
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O'Brien did not mince words when telling his guest that the time to broach the snot subject had long passed, and offered the only solution for Scott to save face.
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On Tuesday, Republican Pat McCrory tried to save face in light of the discriminatory and highly controversial anti-LGBT bill that he supported and signed into law late last month.
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Then OPEC will be able to announce a production cut, from some very high level, save face, and hopefully see prices rise and declare victory over a bearish crude market.
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As for Camila saying she had given everyone involved a heads-up well in advance ... we're told that's BS, and she's simply trying to save face and play the saint.
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"I've been wrong before and I'll be wrong again but I damn sure wouldn't make excuses (alcohol) in an interview to gain self pity and save face," Haqq wrote back.
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" RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel told Fox News that Cohen's upcoming testimony was a "last ditch effort to save face and cast blame on everyone but himself for his crimes.
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But now, according to the Times, senior Treasury officials think Mnuchin is pushing back the redesign to help President Trump, who has criticized the plan in the past, save face.
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"My fear is that the FAA is simply trying to save face and avoid acknowledging the safety defect that they failed to find when they certified the plane's safety," Sen.
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Such a move would allow both parties to save face but would still amount to a major letdown for Trump as he approaches his 100th day in office on Saturday.
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"Nobody thinks more of James Comey than James Comey, and his testimony was simply a last ditch attempt to save face with the American people," she said in a statement.
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"I have no sympathies for the government in Tehran, but you have to think that if nothing more than to save face that they would lash back somehow," he added.
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Having both worked on the National Security Council staff and watched "The Apprentice," I would guess Mr. Trump will eventually jettison a liability as long as he can save face.
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Even more important is to be proactively respectful to the authorities, because that enables the police to save face [when the time comes for negotiations], or allows them to defect.
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BURR: Do you sense that the president was trying to obstruct justice or just seek for a way for Mike Flynn to save face, given he had already been fired?
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In an effort to save face, United announced last week that it would reimburse all the passengers on the flight where a passenger was beaten, bloodied, and removed from his seat.
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The memo said that special counsel was shifting to an obstruction-of-justice investigation to "save face" because it had "struck out" on proving that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.
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He was unable to secure the loans he was so sure about, but he was stuck in a position of needing to save face for his investors and his own ego.
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The Freedom Charity, which helps victims of forced marriage, says some parents coerce LGBT children into marriage in a bid to rid them of homosexuality and save face among their community.
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At the end of 15 rounds, a draw was decided that allowed Inoki to save face in front of his own crowd while also allowing the Champ to remain the Champ.
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You can lose to a good team on the road and save face, but you cannot lose, 21-0, while looking absolutely incapable of moving the ball or stopping the run.
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Diplomats on both sides are likely working on a solution in order to save face and avoid escalating tensions in what has already become a fraught relationship between the NATO allies.
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Putin, either angry for being misled or having to save face from taking no action at all in December (or both), retaliated much more forcefully than he likely would have otherwise.
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The French President arrived as Europeans were feeling somewhat hopeful about the prospects of a political agreement that would keep the US in the deal and allow Trump to save face.
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Eduardo Guerrero, a security analyst at Lantia Consultores in Mexico City, said the obfuscation over what happened suggests the Mexican government is trying to find a way out to save face.
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Uber and Lyft get to save their business, the TLC gets to save face, a few thousand drivers get to starve and a few more get to kill themselves—who cares?
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Conflict unleashed Pakistan's military likely may feel the need to strike back to save face, and India completely unleashed its military to freely conduct war in retaliation for the terror attack. .
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"They're doing the same pattern again: to do whatever they can in private to shut down conversations and stop progress, and do whatever they can in public to save face," they said.
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"Looks like what we're headed to is a namesake deal — we probably get a three to six month deal where the Saudis do something just to sort of 'save face'," Mahesh said.
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To save face, this week BA's chief executive, Alex Cruz, who has come under sustained criticism for the cuts to service quality, announced that the carrier would be tarting up its offer.
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Shouldn't he have shown mercy in this matter and let the Raps save face after a year where they really did everything they could to be the best they could possibly be?
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Daymond John is adamant the NFL partnering with Jay-Z helps its brand, but says make no mistake ... Hova's not going to be the league's puppet just to help them save face.
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Republicans and Democrats would walk away from the bargaining table half happy, half disappointed -- but it allowed each political party to save face and live to debate, fight and negotiate another day.
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Such a deal would hinge on wording that would allow both sides to save face, meaning funding would need to go to fencing or other security measures falling short of a wall.
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After the 2014 midterms, I wrote in the New York Observer: Before the final votes were counted on election night, the progressive political action committee J Street was scrambling to save face.
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T.O. says that's exactly what happened to him back when he sported the star -- claiming Tony Romo and then-offensive coordinator Jason Garrett teamed up to force him out to save face.
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Wall Street and K Street are rooting for Trump and Xi to find an exit ramp that allows both men to save face and claim victories, with minimal disruptions to the markets.
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My fraternity brothers and I all assumed this was a ploy to save face after the punishing media coverage, but we were discouraged by the college's PR department from publicly stating so.
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Prodding Erdogan to de-escalate while simultaneously enabling him to save face will be a delicate act, but mercifully free of the moral and strategic compromises implicit in the other available options.
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When this impossible mission inevitably fails, his superiors try to save face by ordering three men to be executed for cowardice, and it's up to Dax to defend them in court-martial.
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In an address to the nation, Mr. Trump announced new sanctions on Tehran but called for renewed diplomacy after Iranian missile strikes that appeared intended to save face rather than inflict casualties.
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The things we have done to other nations weaker than ours, the death squads and the C.I.A. schemes, and all the squalid little wars we've waged to grab land or save face.
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It's also possible that Flynn was acting alone but the Trump administration found out about his sanctions conversation before it went public — and then covered up the truth about it to save face.
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Mr. Trump might be less Hugo Chávez than Julius Malema, he said, referring to a South African populist who challenged the legitimacy of elections this spring to save face after his party lost.
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The firms' effort to save face by pulling out of Austin might backfire if cities see that they can stand up to them without ushering in a future devoid of ride-hailing services.
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"I see that taking credit for my success in the midst of defeat is a kind of balm," Taylor sneers when Bobby tries to save face by saying he made Mason's win possible.
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A sudden end to a trade war, with an attempt to save face by both sides, could certainly spark a sustained global relief rally that may end up averting or delaying a recession.
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Analysts believe North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may be looking for a way to save face and project his military might without appearing to violate the spirit of the inter-Korean talks.
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"Even if Ivanka Trump tries to save face with LGBTQ Americans, President Trump's negligence at the start of Pride month provided another example that this administration is no friend to the community," Ellis said.
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"Governor McCrory's actions today are a poor effort to save face after his sweeping attacks on the LGBT community," said Sarah Preston, acting executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina.
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Because of the perceived importance of the "pop," bankers often exercise what's called a "greenshoe option," where they can buy back shares at the IPO price to save face in the first 30 days.
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It led to contentious divorces or — in some of the most amicable scenarios — divorces where the husband falsely admitted to adultery so the couple could save face and end their marriage with relative ease.
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Breakdown: Deal talks are mostly for secondaries, but both SoftBank and Dragoneer's discounted offers would include a little bit of primary investment at the current valuation (read: help backers like Saudi PIF save face).
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Officials are also considering a lesser announcement outlining a US vision for the future of Jerusalem as Israel's capital without taking any immediate action, designed to help Trump save face on his campaign pledge.
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UN Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on CNN's "State of the Union" that Trump was forceful in the meeting, and Russia was "trying to save face" in denying any election interference.
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Thinking of all the lies I've told men in order to save face, I wonder, would things really have been better off if I told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but it?
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"Iran can do nothing much for a period of time while it works out a response, or it can engage in limited rapid response to save face before more significant action later," Shanahan said.
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And in addition to that, do you sense that the president was trying to obstruct justice, or just seek for a way for Mike Flynn to save face, given he had already been fired?
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While it may seem like a strange way to compromise, Dan Crane, a law professor at the University of Michigan, believes it may have been the only way for the state to save face.
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There was some speculation that Iran perhaps didn't intend to inflict maximum damage, instead choosing to save face by launching the missiles, but not causing the greatest harm against US interests it could have.
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Justin's been trying to save face ever since, staging a boxing workout with a famous black fighter and appearing on a kids' show to tell a pair of black twin girls he was sorry.
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He used lawsuits to save face, to offer a new venue to prolong a fight, to put off a reckoning or agreed out-of-court settlements to limit the costs of personal and business liabilities.
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Experts have speculated that Damigo's resignation may have been a preemptive effort among the so-called alt-right to save face: In April, Damigo was seen on video sucker-punching a female counterprotester in Berkeley.
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To reduce the chances of armed conflict and give all claimants a chance to save face, the countries have ostensibly been negotiating a set of rules designed to regulate behaviour and manage tensions for decades.
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While Robert is still off Instagram (thankfully) and rumors are flying about how Mom-ager Kris Jenner is handling her son's affairs, it looks like a plan to save face is going into full effect.
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People like Deadmau5 try to explain that they don't mean to use slurs in hateful ways, but that is just stripping the word of its history and meaning in a desperate attempt to save face.
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And even if I do not know a specific leader, our team specializes in initiating relationships and finding ways for captors to save face or see gains in the release and return of the prisoner.
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The exercise is an effort to save face after some bad press, resulting from a Philadelphia Starbucks' criminalization of two black men who were only doing what so many others do: hanging out in Starbucks.
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Ultimately the question becomes how much of that pain each side will be willing to endure, and whether the two nations' leaders feel a sense of urgency to each help the other save face domestically.
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Whatever private acts of contrition these men, and a few women, might make to their victims demands a corresponding public act of contrition, one offered genuinely, rather than to save face or appease the crowd.
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Representative Richard E. Neal, Democrat of Massachusetts, said the administration was merely trying to save face "by rattling its saber with new deadlines," after having undermined American national security interests by easing penalties on ZTE.
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They don't want to be on the receiving end of his wrath, and they also want to save face in front of the village, which has caught wind of all the cash that's supposedly coming.
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A negotiated electoral solution that abides by the Constitution and that allows them to save face and play the role of enforcer to an internationally backed agreement might be the only alternative left for Venezuela.
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"He cannot get funding for his wall, so instead he irresponsibly misuses our military to save face," Kevin Appleby, the senior director of international migration policy at the Center for Migration Studies of New York.
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To let the White House save face, the chancellor took charge of drafting a communiqué that, while rebuffing a formal program toward membership, declared that Ukraine and Georgia would still, one day, join the alliance.
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But the ruling — which allows Russian athletes to compete under a "neutral flag" — is a joke, a non-punitive punishment meant to save face while protecting the I.O.C.'s and Russia's commercial and political interests.
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Wolfgang Schaeuble, a member of Merkel's conservatives and president of the Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, told the Tagesspiegel newspaper that Seehofer and Merkel needed a compromise that allowed each to save face.
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Since Epic is quite literally buying the game in question, it seems unlikely that the company would back down from applying pressure to Valve unless it felt it absolutely had to in order to save face.
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Earlier this year Russian President Vladimir Putin called the United States' treatment of Butina a travesty of justice and said her sentence looked like an attempt by U.S. law enforcement and judicial officials to save face.
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You hear in the video Nicole, Lisa and David get extremely upset with producers, saying Christy's recollections were irrelevant and claiming Oz was trashing Nicole to save face for 86'ing the show earlier this month.
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"The Board's response letter was nothing but spin to try to save face, and had zero substance on how you intend to create value for shareholders," DiSanto wrote in an emailed letter to the company's board.
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The only process that will work is one in which both sides are making concessions nearly at the same time, allowing everyone to save face, with no one side looking like it is appeasing the other.
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People accused of sexual misconduct need to face the consequences and shouldn't get away with trying to gaslight their victims in an attempt to save face...and no number of polygraph tests can convince me otherwise.
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Citing the leaks by Turkish officials and Mr Erdogan's reluctance to confirm details, analysts have suggested that Turkey's leader wants to extract concessions from Saudi Arabia in exchange for allowing the crown prince to save face.
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Lee Sedol was able to save face with a victory in the fourth match, saying he had found a "weakness" in AI's game, but he was obviously unable to find a surefire way to beat AlphaGo.
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By my count, he takes two steps at first, realizes that he isn't even close, and sort of quickly pitter-patters out three extra steps just to save face as the shot sails into the hoop.
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" Lawyers for the trustee, Michael Skidmore, argued that "the tenor of the interview" indicated that Mr. Wolfe "felt cheated by Led Zeppelin and was merely trying to save face and make light of a bad situation.
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While the company is busy repairing its image in order to save face in front of the public and its customers, the driver improvement campaign seeks to respond to issues drivers have had long before 2017.
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He said the ceasefire call was an attempt "to save face after the humiliation" caused by the murder of Washington Post columnist Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi policy, that has strained Riyadh's relationship with the West.
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In Lanthimos's universe, love is a construction that falls down in the face of other human drives, whether it's the drive to save face, to escape discomfort, to prevail against an enemy, or just to survive.
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"Dollface" is at its best when it's taking big swings and at its most disposable when it lapses into sitcom shenanigans, like when Madison pretends she can cook to save face with her much older boyfriend.
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Both sides appear to have reached a reasonable point of "satisfaction"; Iran can save face, bragging domestically about killing American soldiers while U.S. officials do not flaunt the incompetence of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
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The attacks did not cause any casualties and were interpreted by many as an effort for Iran to save face but not escalate a confrontation with the United States following the death of Iranian Maj. Gen.
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The team operated under the name the Ethiopian Clowns for eight years, before changing its name to the Cincinnati Clowns to save face at the hands of protesters, who were calling for it to be disbanded.
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"With the strings being pulled and manipulated by those dead set on securing a confession or conviction whose only goal is to save face, the facts, truth and justice are irrelevant to these individuals," he said.
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Bill de Blasio: The Path Amazon Rejected The mayor of New York City tries to save face after initially championing the Amazon project: The lesson here is that corporations can't ignore rising anger over economic inequality anymore.
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Xi's departure before the protest commenced enabled both Xi and the Hong Kong administration to save face and avoid the embarrassment of a Chinese leader being present in a Chinese city holding a massive anti-government demonstration.
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But some NMNH researchers speculated that Johnson, stuck with a botched investigation conducted by one of its senior scientists, had to save face for the institution by disciplining Helgen, even though the evidence for wrongdoing was flimsy.
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That enables all parties involved to save face because they won't have to state a valuation for either company and therefore can avoid acknowledging that the companies aren't worth what they once thought they were, insiders said.
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Pence's appointment is seen as a compromise for now — giving officials time to assess their needs and see whether the crisis escalates, while allowing Azar to save face after less than a month as the effort's leader.
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Tillerson may have been hoping for a framework agreement with the Europeans that would allow Trump to save face without killing the deal, experts said, but Pompeo and Bolton are unlikely to accept something that's mostly symbolic.
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The parents indicted in the college admissions scandal were universally condemned for using their privilege to get their kids ahead in a system that already favors the white and rich, but Felicity Huffman is trying to save face.
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According to the bond underwriter, the Shanghai municipal government has been mulling the introduction of more financial innovations partly to save face, as the Shanghai FTZ, set up in 2013, has yet to deliver on its great promise.
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While fiscal hawks in Congress backed the proposal-- which would require Congress not to spend more than it brings in -- Democrats argued the vote was a gimmick to help Republicans save face amid an explosion in federal deficits.
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Whichever party was in the minority no longer wanted to help the majority pass legislation any more than necessary to save face because cooperation would seem to endorse the majority's policies and thus help it stay on top.
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While fiscal hawks in Congress backed the proposal — which would require Congress not to spend more than it brings in — Democrats argued the vote was a gimmick to help Republicans save face amid an explosion in federal deficits.
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While many Middle East analysts suspected Saddam's actions were primarily designed to help him save face at home after his humiliating 1991 defeat against the Americans, neoconservatives saw not just American humiliation but alarming evidence of American decline.
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Sources told me earlier this year he was bewildered by the disappointing outcome of the Hanoi Summit, going so far as to dole out severe punishments for key members of his negotiating team in an effort to save face.
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He announced a plan to set up a vote on a straight repeal of Obamacare, a move that could let some Republican senators save face but likely wouldn't pass given lawmakers are skittish about repealing Obamacare without a replacement.
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It may be tempting to assume that people like Spacey and Weinstein only check into treatment to save face, and that could very well be true; but, regardless of the reasoning, we should never shame anyone for seeking help.
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His decision to cede the fight, a move critics dismissed as a transparent attempt to save face, followed a dramatic 24-hour unraveling within the WFP, as union backers fled under what party leaders described as pressure from Cuomo.
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What's needed is a way out of this negotiating cul-de-sac, a way for both sides to save face while they end this saga and return DC to its natural state of ever-so-slightly less harmful gridlock.
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The latest framework appeared designed to allow both parties to save face: Abe avoids the worst-case scenario of an imminent 25 percent tariff on cars, while Trump claims victory for getting Japan to a two-way negotiating table.
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On the eve of the judge's decision to release the Chatman video, the city's lawyers made an 11th-hour attempt to save face, filing a motion to withdraw their longstanding opposition from the protective order that guarded the video.
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Moscovici said that while rules had to be respected, he was keen to maintain dialogue with Rome — code for negotiations over the next two weeks, before Italy submits the final version of the budget, that could save face for both sides.
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Fortunately, we've got you covered with a list of highlights so you can save face: Patriots make the biggest Super Bowl comeback ever Midway through the third quarter, the Atlanta Falcons seemed destined for victory with a 28-3 lead.
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In this retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in Pakistan, the Binat family is struggling to save face in the aftermath of a social scandal that has emptied their fortune and all but guaranteed that the five daughters will remain unmarried.
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Backtracking and offering the coverage to employees helps the publisher save face, but more importantly, it helps provides essential medical coverage that might otherwise be well out of reach for any current or potential Dark Horse employees who might require it.
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But after losing the first two sets in 24 minutes, Federer — urging himself on and getting plenty of positive reinforcement from the Melbourne crowd — managed to save face and even win a set before the current shifted again for good.
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This attempt to save face by Snap should serve as a reminder that no matter how big you are (or how many billions of dollars you have) in our system everyone has to play by the same set of rules.
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That language, however, was basically inserted to protect the Saudi PIF's massive investment in Uber, so Saudi PIF can effectively waive it (particularly if PIF's Yasir Al-Rumayyan gets that book value primary, which lets him save face back home).
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Fight for the Future, a pro-net neutrality advocacy group, said that it was skeptical of the claim and suggested that the FCC may be intentionally misleading the public in order to save face in the midst of the backlash.
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Frenkel said the standoff is "a public relations debacle" for Apple in some respects, and he believes the company will try to save face by saying it has found a way to protect the public and satisfy the Justice Department's request.
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But the victory has given Mr. Duterte a stronger hand in negotiations, where he is expected to use the ruling as leverage in reaching his own deal with China in a way that will allow its leaders to save face.
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Shortly after news broke early Wednesday that CEOs were ending a White House strategy forum, Trump sought to save face, saying in a tweet that he was ending two councils to spare business leaders from the public pressure they were facing.
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These stories were mostly invented to save face—it was easier, for instance, for a woman to explain that she contracted chlamydia from a toilet seat instead of admitting that her husband was cheating on her and lying about it.
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Cruz isn't a big puncher and has never pulled off a last minute finish, and yet he got up and got right back to work trying not just to survive, or save face, but to get the better of Garbrandt.
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But the leaks of the names and other information might make it harder for both sides to save face — for example, through a compromise in which the Saudis would acknowledge the killing of Mr. Khashoggi but blame it on rogue actors.
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This depends in part on whether the cases now being revealed are all new and indicative of rapid spread, or whether China has been slow for months to reveal a cauldron of contamination in order to save face, as critics suggest.
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White House officials, meanwhile, are beginning to signal that Mexico is already doing more to stop border crossings -- a development that could give the President a way to save face on the border closing threat without appearing to back down.
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Trump and his top officials, who are desperately trying to save face with his base by demanding the wall funding, have indicated they'd accept various funding levels for their coveted wall — ranging from $2.1 to $5.7 billion on this go-around.
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But not everyone agrees with that assessment and some suggest Beijing maybe under reporting the severity of the killer disease's impact on pork supplies, to save face or perhaps maintain a position of strength during negotiations to resolve the U.S.-China trade war.
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China's government, determined to save face and match Trump's tariff threats, is so concerned about the slide in share prices and what it might signal about the cost of the confrontation, that it will likely allow the $941 billion China Investment Corp.
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To save face at Ferrari's home race, Sebastian Vettel crossed the finish line in third position, taking Ferrari's first podium in five races, under the watchful eyes of Sergio Marchionne, the Ferrari president and chief executive of Fiat, who attended the race.
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His ensuing effort to save face led to an unwarranted scolding of the Weather Service, the questionable intervention of multiple senior government officials, including the commerce secretary, and the apparent doctoring of a weather map, which spawned the appropriately absurd #Sharpiegate scandal.
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While in El Salvador the conflict could arrive at his doorstep, the encounters in Nicaragua were deep in the countryside, as well as in Honduras, where the Contras were based — even if Honduran officials tried to save face by denying their presence.
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But Republicans had a lot to gain: It was a way to save face and bring jobs back after an unnecessary anti-LGBTQ crusade had hurt the state economy and cost their party the governor's mansion — all just in time for special elections next year.
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When you go somewhere, and you side with North Korea, and you&aposre seeing with Putin, you&aposd probably see it with Iran, which is the custom of allowing your adversary to save face in public while you exercise something completely different in private.
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"A December increase is still likely, perhaps for no better reason than to save face for the FOMC members," Chris Gaffney, president of world markets at EverBank, said However, recent economic data does not indicate the case for raising rates has strengthened, Gaffney said.
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Nonetheless, despite the threat of sanctions and a heightened risk of further complications in the long-running trade conflict, analysts at Eurasia Group said they expect China to continue buying Iranian crude, perhaps as high as several hundred thousand barrels per day, to save face.
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But in the clearest sign yet that Abe was back-tracking on the budget goal, the guidelines - announced on June 9 - also included a pledge to simultaneously lower the debt-to-GDP ratio, which could help save face over any slippage on fiscal reform.
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The military tried to walk this report back, but the damage was done—the report undoubtedly made negotiating an end to North Korea's nuclear program harder, not easier, because Kim Jong-un will now have to be as belligerent as possible to save face.
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Resistance very late in the game also helped many people save face, as the historian Jean Edward Smith, who died earlier this year, notes in THE LIBERATION OF PARIS: How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and Von Choltitz Saved the City of Light (Simon & Schuster, $27).
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It is undeniable that America has far more young talent than Canada, which lends credence to the much-discussed conspiracy theory (that I am now making up) that the NHL is bailing on the Olympics to allow Canada to save face on the international stage.
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He announced that the region had won the right to declare independence — but he held off on a declaration, asking, instead, for dialogue with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, hoping Rajoy would agree to greater autonomies and allow him a way to save face.
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Moreover, Biden has shown a willingness to reach out to people who disagree with him, to own his decades-long experience, and to embrace his humanity – a stark contrast to Trump's inability to think of anyone but himself and stream of lies to save face.
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One is that Iran is so economically weak and internally shaken by the Soleimani killing that it took the most cautious course, allowing the Supreme Leader to save face with his people without risking losing his own head to the Americans through reckless escalation.
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While Guam is a U.S. territory of strategic value that hosts various U.S. military assets, it should be noted that the North Korean threats were carefully aimed at Guam — not at cities on America's mainland — perhaps signifying attempts by Pyongyang to bluff and save face.
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Republicans failed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, but they can still save face and take a big step in the right direction by using tax reform to eliminate the mandate to have health insurance — which, fortunately, helps pay for tax reform.
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Unlike many Republicans, his criticism of President Barack Obama wasn't for failing to follow through on infamous "red line" comments but for making them at all: The only reason President Obama wants to attack Syria is to save face over his very dumb RED LINE statement.
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Now it's just a question of how the Chinese can save face and say 'alright we're going to change, going to open up wider access not only to the U.S. but to the EU and Japan', said Christopher Peel, chief investment officer at Tavistock Wealth in London.
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He went to North Korea to test the proposition that he could help North Korea save face through a face-to-face meeting in which he showed respect and undertook to use his personal and diplomatic skills on a one-on-one basis to defuse the situation.
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"What they sought was to strike a balance - to help the employer save face, not to lose, and at the same time, not to jail Andy, to let him go with a slap on his wrist... but I don't think they satisfied anyone really," Pajkovski said.
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Melania Trump flew to Texas on Thursday to meet migrant children who had been separated from their parents, and perhaps also to save face for the White House—to show that her husband, who ultimately is responsible for the children's separation, does care about their fate.
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"The total lack of transparency and accountability among senior FBI and DOJ officials has devolved into a constant wheel of behind-the-scenes gamesmanship, with anonymous leaks left and right, each seeking to create their own narrative and save face with the public," Meadows said in a statement.
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"There seems to be a consensus around finessing this situation to get more oil on the market, but also to enable Iran in particular to save face and abide the deal until the end of the year," said John Kilduff, founding partner at energy hedge fund Again Capital.
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"This appears to have been an example of an insurance company looking for ways to save a buck at the expense of their patients, only to then reverse course to try and save face once folks noticed and called them out," Senator McCaskill said in a written statement.
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FICTION: Trump has taken reckless & impulsive action with no planning or forethought for what comes nextFACT: Trump acted on previously expressed red lines that were crossed,after exhausting all other options & fully aware that Iran will now respond,if only to save face Others took a similar path.
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That some Democrats are going along with this narrative, perhaps in their desire to protect DACA recipients on the brink or, less honorably, an effort to save face and deny Trump a victory lap, is remarkably short-sighted -- and sets the stage for more damaging defeats in the future.
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Not only could the investigation help the swing votes decide whether they believe the allegations against Kavanaugh, but it could also allow them to save face with constituents and peers by, depending on what the FBI uncovers, giving them political or personal cover for whatever vote they ultimately cast.
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It probably won't make you feel better about yourself, but it could help you try to save face with your friends (or it could go terribly wrong.) Late Night Snap Hacks is a website dedicated to helping you spoof Snapchat videos so your friends will think you're somewhere you're not.
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However, that doesn't help Apple save face if the company still can't keep up with demand for the iPhone X. Ming-Chi Kuo, a dependable Apple analyst from KGI Securities, predicted last week that only 2 to 3 million iPhone X units would be available for the device's November 3rd launch.
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In concert with increased international pressure through sanctions, a shadow peace regime ultimately offers a way out for North Korea to save face in taking a new peaceful path as it is forced to more directly confront the benefits of a peace mechanism that it forgoes by pursuing nuclear weapons.
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To help Khrushchev save face in the Kremlin when he felt forced to withdraw the missiles from the island, the Kennedys agreed to withdraw a few obsolete American missiles from Turkey and promised not to invade Cuba — but they insisted that those commitments remain secret, as they did for many years.
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"This allows the individual to retain the belief that they are competent in a given domain, and also allows them to save face in front of others, despite poor performance" Disturbingly, such pitiful behavior is most likely to occur when we are thinking clearly; when we're at our best, not worst.
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Its liberal use of flashbacks to fill in storytelling gaps clashes with its just-as-liberal use of quick cuts to what a character wishes they could say in an awkward social situation, before viewers are presented with the more polite response they actually gave in order to save face.
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Trump himself was highly critical of Obama's ask for military authorization in 2013, tweeting multiple times that the United States should not intervene in Syria and should focus instead on domestic problems: The only reason President Obama wants to attack Syria is to save face over his very dumb RED LINE statement.
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"Governor McCrory's actions today are a poor effort to save face after his sweeping attacks on the L.G.B.T. community, and they fall far short of correcting the damage done" by the law, Sarah Preston, the acting executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, said in a statement on Tuesday.
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This environment makes it such that Republicans who might think that Trump committed impeachable offenses but don&apost want to have a vote to impeach on their record or to inspire Trump&aposs wrath can be assured that Trump will be impeached while they can publicly save face and appear as Trump allies.
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In the meantime, the Power Five proposal does more to save face—to prop up whatever's left of the myth that big-time college athletes are just budding young scholars who happen to be very good at sports—than it does to acknowledge or mitigate the ground-level incentives in a competitive, high-stakes industry.
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Athletes' committees, sporting federations, and other national anti-doping agencies have immediately seen the vote for what it is: a craven move that allows Russia to save face and edge its way back into the good graces of international sport, while showing the rest of the world that powerful countries need not play by the rules.
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Commissioner Adam Silver's handling of the matter threatens to damage the reputation of the NBA, which has been seen as one of the more progressive sports leagues in the U.S. As the league scrambled to save face in China, lawmakers at home from both parties ripped the NBA, accusing it of putting profit over principle. Sen.
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Italy's Foreign Minister, Matteo Salvini, a member of the anti-immigrant ruling League party, declared in a statement that the migrants on board would not be allowed refuge anywhere in Italy, much less Palermo, leading to a public standoff between the city's outspoken mayor, keen on accepting them, partly in order to save face in front of the Manifesta set.
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This time around, the man party was in celebration of House Republicans pushing through a health care bill they threw together in an effort to save face, without bothering to allow the Congressional Budget Office to fully evaluate its costs and impact and lay them before the American people -- much less the legislative body, some of whom admit not reading the bill.
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There is a chance Trump might choose to keep the United States in the international pact under which Iran agreed to curb its nuclear program in return for sanctions relief, in part because of "alliance maintenance" with France and to save face for French President Emmanuel Macron, who met Trump last week and urged him to stay in, the source said.
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It looks likely that the NAFTA reboot will be put to bed soon (Canada is hinting at flexibility with respect to its steep dairy tariffs), and there is apparently progress behind the scenes with the EU. China continues to press a hard line with negotiations, but we are skeptical they will allow their economy to slow further just to save face.
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Iran "will still try to avoid provoking an all-out war, but it will be challenging for them to retaliate in a way that allows them domestically to save face without at the same time triggering some sort of military response," Aniseh Tabrizi, a Middle East research fellow and Iran expert at London's Royal United Services Institute, told CNBC on Monday.
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Trump has not shied away from calling out individual companies over their outsourcing, some of which have tried to save face and claim to be bringing jobs back to the U.S. Other companies, like Carrier, which make air conditioners, have tried to gain favor by proclaiming that they would keep jobs in the U.S. The company ended up laying off the workers it claimed to save.
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Why it matters: These are striking photos, particularly of Salah Khashoggi, who was banned from leaving Saudi Arabia last year due to his father's criticism, per the AP. The Saudis are still working to save face over what happened to Khashoggi, while the world has remained widely skeptical of the explanation they gave last week — that he died when a fight broke out in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
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Hoyer argued that GOP lawmakers are using rescission proposals as a way to save face following backlash from conservatives over spending levels set in the $1.3 trillion omnibus package that President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE signed in March.
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"We have heard that Worley has been looking to leave for a while, so it looks like VA is just using his preplanned departure as a way to save face over the GI Bill fiasco by pointing to him as someone they got rid of," the same committee aide told CNN, echoing comments from various lawmakers including the potential incoming chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, Rep.
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The most memorable stories address familial expectations placed on the next generation: A closeted gay couple pretend to be traveling roommates when they run into family friends at a bed-and-breakfast; a pastor bribes an entire East African village to claim he converted them on a mission trip, to save face with his family and congregation; a man in his 70s returns to a tiny town west of Hong Kong to fulfill his (he thinks) dying mother's wish that he marry someone from home.
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O) (now ~$2855) down as much as 15.4 pct from its mid-Mar peak -Decline sharp, but composite still within longer-term bullish channel; breaking below support, however, can suggest risk for much more severe decline -Indeed, FANG weakness intensified as tech sector failed its trust test on the charts -This as FB has plunged on data breach/FTC probe; struggles to save face above support -And AMZN tumbles on worries President Trump may target the tech giant -Action has FANG composite on track for 3rd straight weekly decline (worst run since Aug) -That said, group yet to violate significant support at early Feb trough ($2666.22 weekly basis).
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpAs Biden surges, GOP Ukraine probe moves to the forefront Republicans, rooting for Sanders, see Biden wins as setback Trump says Biden Ukraine dealings will be a 'major' campaign issue MORE mocked former New York City Mayor Michael BloombergMichael BloombergBiden surge calms Democratic jitters The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden riding wave of momentum after stunning Super Tuesday Delegate battle ahead likely favors Biden MORE for dropping out of the Democratic presidential primary on Wednesday, saying he "didn't have what it takes" and accusing him of trying to "save face" by endorsing former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenAs Biden surges, GOP Ukraine probe moves to the forefront Republicans, rooting for Sanders, see Biden wins as setback Sanders says Biden winning African American support by 'running with his ties to Obama' MORE.
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Developing now, Friday, May 25, 19923 North Korea reportedly says it remains open to talks with the U.S., despite President Trump's decision to cancel his scheduled summit with Kim Jong Un D.C. lawmakers trade barbs over 'Spygate' after the FBI and Justice Department hold a pair of briefings on the Russia investigation with top members of Congress Former President Barack Obama raises eyebrows at a conference by seemingly joking that his administration was scandal-free Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is reportedly expected to surrender to New York authorities Friday over sexual misconduct charges THE LEAD STORY - NORTH KOREA ATTEMPTS TO SAVE FACE: Following President Trump's decision to cancel a highly anticipated summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, an official from the rogue nation said it remained open to talks with the U.S. , South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported ... "We express our willingness to sit down face-to-face with the U.S. and resolve issues anytime and in any format," North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan said Friday, according to the outlet, citing the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
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