| It looked like another slide down the slippery slope of mediocrity for the Woodman. |
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| Getting there was as wild and uncomfortable as any slide down a slippery slope can be. |
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| The Hit Man's first step onto the slippery slope had been taking a contract to kill a gangster. |
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| And do we want to start down that slippery slope to losing control of our hard-won autonomy? |
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| In the very least, it is part of the slippery slope that has led to dislocation, desperation and even despair. |
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| The idea that a decision cannot be judged at the moment but only retrospectively opens a slippery slope of justification. |
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| They're offering an argument that, should you accept it, drops you on a slippery slope leading down to veganism. |
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| The No. 1 reason cited by women who are reluctant to indulge their male partners' kinks is the fear that they're stepping onto a slippery slope. |
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| Nor do I think a slippery slope case would persuade anyone who can see nothing wrong with banning such views. |
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| And would changes along these lines be a slippery slope or a maturing process within the framework of the United Kingdom? |
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| The concern, of course, is that ID cards could lead the country down a slippery slope. |
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| People say it is the start of the slippery slope to harder things like cocaine and heroin. |
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| But while I am cognizant of the slippery slope, I think it's silly to say that every less-than-ideal action is a nail in the coffin of liberty. |
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| How do we stop from sliding down the slippery slope till we reach the oubliette where lurk the rack, the branding-iron, and the thumbscrew? |
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| When you start on the slippery slope you don't know what's happening to you because you haven't got the experience. |
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| Let me a bit more explicit, by identifying three particular ways that the slippery slope can work here. |
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| Critics say the law would be a slippery slope leading to anti-abortion laws in Canada. |
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| Once you start putting police all over the place, including private businesses, it become a slippery slope. |
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| It felt like part of a long, long slide down that slippery slope of obsolescence. |
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| Once a school started down the slippery slope toward liberalism, nothing could stop its full slide to perdition. |
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| Also, using cannabis does not mean that you are on the slippery slope to becoming a heroin user or future drug pusher. |
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| Invoke the slippery slope and construct a straw man to knock down with one fell swoop of rhetoric. |
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| Perhaps mine just has a slippery slope and I have been slowly inching my family toward the sharp edge of the cliff. |
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| Anti-euthanasia campaigners fear a law allowing assisted dying could become a slippery slope. |
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| Many people in their 40s and 50s are in their prime, yet some employers seem to consider them on the slippery slope to decrepitude. |
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| In other words, to use the vernacular, this could be the start of a very slippery slope. |
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| Lying about one's age puts one on a slippery slope toward more serious falsehoods, she said. |
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| From the standpoint of the media, this process may be one step on a slippery slope. |
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| Most Americans are leery that any one of them could place the country on a slippery slope. |
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| Whether the staunchest conservative or the most weak-kneed liberal, no one can deny that this country's social spending is on a slippery slope. |
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| As I say, I have a request for you, Mr Vanhanen, from one Liberal to another, so to speak. Make sure that we do not end up on a slippery slope. |
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| Provocation leads to violence, which is met by violence, which leads to revenge and a slippery slope away from a just and peaceful modus vivendi. |
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| They bought into it in that the allocations would go toward a portion of paying for the science, but it seems to be the slippery slope. |
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| There are some who think that bilingualism is a slippery slope that leads to unilingualism. |
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| I know that, increasingly, the position of those opposed is the fear of the slippery slope. |
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| A careful study of the situation in those countries and states shows that a slippery slope exists. |
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| Now, more than ever before, a catastrophe can upset the delicate balance of an organization and precipitate it down a slippery slope. |
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| This is in every way preferable to stepping out on to the slippery slope of extraterritoriality. |
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| I would like to have your comments on this argument which is being referred to as the slippery slope argument. |
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| But the other major issue for some critics is the idea that the Tennessee law creates a slippery slope. |
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| Historically, conservatives treated the minimum wage as an affront to free labor and a step on a slippery slope towards statism. |
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| In her article, Medine acknowledges the slippery slope of gifting and expresses remorse. |
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| The slippery slope argument is a way of keeping the hands-off-the-Internet-entirely philosophy going. |
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| Once you begin on the slippery slope of hypothermia, secondary problems such as narcosis and decompression sickness begin to increase drastically. |
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| It felt like the first step on a slippery slope to mounting debt. |
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| This report and this Agency set that principle on a slippery slope. |
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| However, reducing the rigour applied in the construction of such assumed distributions puts one on a slippery slope towards arbitrary assumptions. |
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| The suggestion will come under heavy fire, especially from doctors who argue that the most well-intentioned recommendation to drink alcohol may be the first step on the slippery slope that leads to excessive drink abuse. |
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| Where, then, are the safeguards that the directive was supposed to provide against this slippery slope leading the whole of social life into anything-goes competition? |
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| A SQUADDIE from Stockton was on a slippery slope when he joined a British Army training camp in Canada. |
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| This move clearly represents a slippery slope towards a system where the prerogatives of national governments are diminished and those of the regions are enhanced. |
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| Speaking to the town hall, one audience member wondered whether the public option was the first step on a slippery slope to government control of medicine. |
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| I would just comment, Madam Chair, that I think we are going down a slippery slope of devolving into a kangaroo court, and I certainly wouldn't want our committee to be viewed in that way. |
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| We are on a very slippery slope, because if you go out there next year and find that no crab fishery is left in this province, then we will be in deep, deep trouble. |
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| I mean, when they opened up marriage in the Netherlands, everyone suggested it would potentially go downhill, but there's been no movement towards this slippery slope argument that had been presented by conservatives. |
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| In an era when the courts seem to be on a slippery slope of broadening employee rights, Canada's highest court has given employers a break when it comes to assessing the costs of dismissing an employee without cause. |
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| While I do live on a slippery slope, be assured that behind the language and memory difficulties, there's still a thoughtful, intelligent person eager to enjoy life for as long as possible. |
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| In Denmark, we have not yet reached this stage, but the cited examples show that we are on a slippery slope to a place where no one can predict what self-censorship will lead to. |
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| Before our business corporation was structured, Sliammon was on a slippery slope where we couldn't develop any business opportunities because outside opportunity did not want to deal with First Nations Chiefs and Councils. |
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| If you have to clear an area that is on a slippery slope a snow blower with a track drive system for even weight transfer and increased traction is preferable. |
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| What can you do to reassure us that we are not on a slippery slope, where data transferred for security purposes is really just going to be used for profiling and never really going to benefit from privacy guarantees? |
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| The usual metaphor to explain this is a slippery slope. |
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| The LIDU and the EAHR therefore request that the Italian government take a step back from these measures taken in the heat of the moment and under emotional strain, from the slippery slope to collective denunciation. |
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| Rejecting the use of the CD to develop necessary rules and norms and to strengthen verification and compliance carried the risk of a slippery slope towards anarchy and the use of force in international relations. |
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| I think basing your actions off an assumption like that is a slippery slope that is going to get you in trouble. |
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| Incrementalism in the study of rationality can be seen as a stealthy way to bring about radical changes that were not initially intended, a slippery slope. |
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