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Slippery in sentence

122 examples of Slippery in a sentence

Well, if you’re afraid of slippery slopes, stay out of government, because balancing on all sorts of slippery slopes is what the job is about.
On other matters, including abortion rights, he was slippery in his responses, and there is credible evidence that he lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee on other matters.
Given this, underestimating Trump would be a huge mistake; he will always prove stronger, more slippery, and more enduring than expected.
Indeed, transplant ethics has been on a slippery slope almost since transplants began.
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.
Croatia's opposition was for a long time limited to NGO's such as the Helsinki Committee, which challenged the government on the slippery terrain of human and minority rights, an area where the parliamentary opposition kept its collective mouths shut.
Indeed, this is not the first time that Pakistan’s relations with the US have been on a slippery slope.
But sovereignty is always a slippery concept.
Publish or PerishOXFORD – A few years ago, two Norwegian researchers presented their version of a scientific-research slippery slope, with honest errors (mistaken observations and analyses) at the top and intentional fraud (plagiarism, falsification, and fabrication) at the bottom.
That could take all of us to the edge of a slippery slope.
The slippery slope is exposed in a memo – recently disclosed as part of the UK’s Chilcot Inquiry – written by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to former US President George W. Bush in the run-up to the Iraq war.
The Canadian panel therefore concluded that there is strong evidence to rebut one of the greatest fears that opponents of voluntary euthanasia or physician-assisted dying often voice – that it is the first step down a slippery slope towards more widespread medical killing.
Trade experts have long been wary of opening up the WTO regime to questions about labor and environmental standards or human rights, fearing the slippery slope of protectionism.
But it puts the EU on a slippery slope.
Do other British publishers really believe that silence will protect them from the slippery slope?
Taken to its extreme, America’s accusations risk pushing the world’s two largest economies down the slippery slope of trade frictions, protectionism, or something even worse.
No one can possibly know in advance exactly how big this “bill” might be, though that question – important as that is – misses the crucial point: a common bond would be the first step down a slippery slope to bail-outs, and thus to the end of the euro area as a zone of stability.
One cannot help but wonder how thoughtlessly Europe’s politicians have started down this slippery slope.
Critics warn of a slippery slope.
Thoughtful theologians can distinguish among psycho-sexual issues; in practice, however, fear of a slippery slope to calamity prevails.
Spooked by a perception that the Western powers had overreached in Libya by stretching a limited mandate to protect civilians into a regime-change crusade, and seeing another slippery slope in Syria, the Security Council failed even to condemn the regime.
That left Greenspan’s successor on a very slippery slope.
Experience in industrialized countries shows that this is a slippery slope.
The definition of torture is notoriously slippery, but we have known for some time now that the former president was being, shall we say, economical with the truth.
Watchdogs must never lower their guard, and any permissiveness is a slippery slope.
But while a crackdown on corruption is badly needed, the increasingly politicized approach is placing the entire region on a slippery slope.
And yet, as slippery as this slope might be, we will, sooner or later, find ourselves inching our way down it.
The slope may indeed be slippery.
Worse, using social, rather than medical, criteria for rationing treatments is a slippery slope.
The world is on a slippery slope toward nationalism and exclusion.
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