Slope in example sentence

An immediate need is to counter the perception that any condemnatory response to an unfolding RtoP situation means stepping onto a slippery slope to military confrontation – a perception that Russia and China heavily milked in seeking to justify their vote against an early-stage Security Council resolution on Syria.

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Before I talk about that, I've written down at the bottom there the slope of this curve, this straight line.

It says that, if it were linear, the steepest slope, then doubling the size you would require double the amount of energy.

The slope of that is less than linear.

And if we can teach listening in our schools, we can take our listening off that slippery slope to that dangerous, scary world that I talked about, and move it to a place where everybody is consciously listening all the time, or at least capable of doing it.

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