1.   Officials tried to salvage the situation.

2.   Eldredge could have attempted to salvage the situation by throwing in an impromptu combination later in his program.

3.   I was trying desperately to find a way to salvage the situation without appearing a total fool in front of my own granddaughter.

4.   In a ludicrous plot twist that might have sounded good at the pitch meeting, Sam salvages the situation.

5.   Larson said he called Huai Saturday night to try to salvage the situation.

6.   To salvage the situation, McDaniel and staff blocked off the street and brought in refrigerated trucks to hold the perishables.

7.   Trying desperately to salvage the situation, Hoddle gave a series of interviews in which he said that he had long supported and worked on behalf of the disabled.

8.   Only in the few days preceding the elections did the government take some positive measures to salvage the situation.

9.   At a top-level meeting Monday, Russian space officials worked to salvage the situation, reworking the schedule of activities on the station for the coming months.

10.   He said he was not sure what could be done to salvage the situation.