1) The government is trying to paper over the cracks in the cabinet.

2) He agreed to paper over the cracks for the period of the election.

3) She tried to paper over the cracks, but I could see that the relationship was failing.

4) He did his best to paper over the cracks.

5) King Birendra enjoyed considerable popularity, which enabled him to paper over the cracks in his divided kingdom.

6) The meeting was stormy, and the two sides managed only to paper over the cracks on some issues.

7) The whole system needed reorganizing, but all we could do in the time was to paper over the cracks.

8) More radical critics will argue that 10:10 is just "feelgood" window dressing designed to paper over the cracks in a broken economic model.