Generally speaking, to avoid the appearance of impropriety, officials would not be assigned to games between a country from their own confederation and a team from another.

For example, politicians or managers may have more incentive to avoid the appearance of a total loss.

They advised him to be careful to avoid the appearance of any conflict in this matter.

This allowed for censorship of the press, but the government was eager to avoid the appearance of open censorship, which was forbidden by the constitution.

Often, there was a plea for the life of the heretic, so as to avoid the appearance of irregularity and blood guilt.