Despite some recent short-term positive economic signs, America remains on a slippery economic slope.
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They can be slippery in the rain - treacherous if you are on a scooter.
It makes an awful first impression, slippery and slimy and simply unpleasant in your hand.
You base this on the slippery-slope argument: selected cases may grow into casual practice over time.
But far be it for us to put you on a slippery slope to dependency.
Heavy snow overnight led to slippery conditions on island roads, with several having to be closed.
Trying to catch and release those slippery buggers brings back great memories from my childhood.
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Complicity is a slippery word, but there is a degree of truth in what he says.
In fact, Young says it would be a "slippery slope" to yield to political pressure.
It is not too late to pull back from the brink of this slippery slope.
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Groups like the American Civil Liberties Union see DNA evidence as a slippery slope, however.
Conservative satirists would love to toss some kryptonite at him, but he is a slippery target.
But the selection is puzzling, I think, because the conceptual framework of the show is slippery.
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It warned pedestrians that some side roads and footpaths were slippery because of ice.
You want to talk about a slippery slope or how guns don't kill people, people do.
What, though, if the slippery half-fiction now turned out to have become horribly true?
The main problems I seem to see are slippery slopes, straw mans, and ad hominem attacks.
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At the very least, the 4.7-inch frame is easy to grip despite its slippery material.
Slippery Rock University isn't the only school making changes to graduation ceremonies because of swine flu fears.
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Adding to the uncertainty: Lupus is a notoriously slippery disease, with highly unpredictable symptoms, making trials difficult.
"I asked parliamentary questions to the European Commission about the risk of this slippery slope, " she said.
The One's aluminum back felt a bit slippery at times and I dropped it on several occasions.
The minute you start carving out exceptions to non-violence, you find yourself on a very slippery slope.
Some had even resorted to lining their shoes with Vaseline, but the grease made their feet slippery.
Life was especially harsh for those on the slippery border between the English kingdom and Charles's territories.
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In the slippery conditions, his McLaren's grip advantage over the Ferraris was too big for him not to.
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"It's a slippery-slope deal, " says Dr. Deborah Peel, founder of Patient Privacy Rights, which advocates for medical-data confidentiality.
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The only slippery slope is the one that leads to making many people's lives so much, much better.
It wouldn't be good to have Steven Spielberg or Quentin Tarantino running around shouting "First Amendment, slippery slope!"
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