Michael Ryan was offering him a face saver and he knew it.

Well, keep your face saver; stay buttoned up.

Now it was shaping up to the ultimate face saver, the ultimate act of revenge.

His removal from power is thus not just a question of providing him with a face saver if that appeared to be necessary to induce his departure.

By the fourth night I was the one who had earned the right to sleep on the Face Saver with "aloe-soft fabric" to prevent wrinkles.

Many reviewers mentioned that the legendary actor Sivaji Ganesan was the face saver of this movie.

Boats drew alongside, their decks filled with men in white jumpsuits with white hoods and standard issue face saver masks with built-in goggles.

But others criticize Foreign Minister Michio Watanabe for negotiating in a way certain to offend proud Russians and provide few face savers.

The wide-track main landing gear struts are laminated fiberglass for shock absorption, and was marketed as the "Face Saver" design by American Aviation.

These officials criticized the Bush Administration's unwillingess to offer President Hussein what they call "face savers" - terms that the Administration has dismissed as "rewards for aggression."

Honey face saver : legendary as a treatment for ailments such as sore throats and hayfever, honey has also been shown to heal burns and can sort out dry and spotty skin problems, so get stuck in!

A spokesman for Barclays said: "We are aware of the difficulties facing savers and are committed to offering credible long-term value and innovative products which are simple and transparent, rather than boosting rates through the use of large introductory bonuses or products with restrictions."

He made a concession and a face-saver at the same time.

Very well; that could be a face-saver, no more; it's done all the time.

"But it's a bit of a face-saver for them, don't you think?

The Nets became the face-saver, just as they had in Portland.

"It is the face-saver for the contact group.

Either it was the final straw, or it served as an excellent face-saver for the Captain.

The slob grumbled, by way of a face-saver, "Where'd you get the fancy clothes?"

"Face-saver" headgear features a pad across the face so that no direct contact is made to the face.

It's a face-saver for the company, but the reality is that the $500 is a front-end payment after the first year."

At the last minute, as a face-saver, he agreed to give a one-minute introduction of Elizabeth Dole, the candidate's wife.

The face-saver has traces of fragrant orange, peppermint and apricot ($29.50 for 1.7 ounces; www.origins.com).

Mr Poos hints that one such face-saver could be a promise of talks on Palestine.

That's the potential face-saver.

The point of such a scenario is that a withdrawal from Kuwait labeled as an "Arab solution" would be a bit of a face-saver.

Like everyone else you must have your face-saver; yours in particular being that, in the quality newspapers at least, the mind is interesting, the body is not.

Taylor's Euro face-saver

For a faster face-saver, splurge on laser treatments or the new eMatrix, which uses radio frequencies to accelerate the skin's own spot-fading, healing process.

"I told him that we had to find a face-saver for him," Mr. Mubarak said of Saddam Hussein.

Of course, that's just a face-saver, when all's said and done, to give people the impression that things are looking up, when in fact they couldn't be much worse.

"Just a face-saver."

But the face-saver will be the "soft euro," a tacit admission that the French will never let the Germans decide how the French live.

That repugnant rationale for a face-saver is what you hear from the Russians, who were officially not here, and from the Ukrainian observers who were.

Inclusion of Britain's alternatives to the Delors version of economic and monetary union on the IGC agenda could be one face-saver.

There was also explicit linkage between the Iraqi pullout and the Arab-Israel conflict, which the Soviets were trying to win for President Hussein as a face-saver.

Mr. Giuliani could still scuttle the deal, which some described as a face-saver for the Mayor, who faced potentially insurmountable political opposition to the voucher plan he had pushed for months.