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If China intervenes to push its currency lower, US political support for anti-China trade actions will undoubtedly intensify, pushing the world's two largest economies closer to the slippery slope of protectionism.
But it is a slippery slope.
We have to act fast, because digital advances could be just the start of a slippery slope leading to an Orwellian world controlled by Big Brother, where millions of sensors in our smartphones and other devices collect data and make us vulnerable to manipulation.
The question is how to keep surveillance off the slippery slope to unaccountable snooping.
But in the long run it could become very slippery.
Nonetheless, critics fear the slippery slope.
Cloning's Slippery SlopeSometime in the next two years a human being will likely be cloned.
Will any country that legalizes therapeutic cloning inevitably slide down the so-called slippery slope and end up tolerating reproductive cloning?
The idea behind a slippery slope is that if you do x, which is acceptable, you will end up doing y, which is not.
Indeed, two types of slippery slopes – logical and sociological – exist.
On the logical slippery slope, you slide to the bottom and embrace the morally unacceptable because there is no way to distinguish it from an acceptable practice.
You can slide down the sociological slippery slope from one practice to the other – even if the two are conceptually different – just because the existence of one creates a social climate receptive to the other.
Even though I do not believe in a slippery slope from therapeutic to reproductive cloning, a society’s laws should give voice to its values.
But controlling content and handing user data over to governments is a slippery slope to censorship and surveillance, including of journalists and human-rights defenders.
In a similar vein, other earlier research had found that people in low moods can more readily detect the linguistic ambiguity at which populists and slippery politicians in general seem to excel.
But IMF staff know very well that countries with a history of serial default, such as Argentina and Venezuela, ride a slippery slope in debt markets.
Acceding to their demands is a slippery slope that might well end with the collapse of the democratic order.
Compared to monetary stability, financial stability is a slippery concept.
For China’s leaders, any move perceived as a concession would be the first step on a slippery slope.
Lincoln has a big, noble mission – outlawing slavery in the United States Constitution – but he’s also willing to be cunning, even slippery, to achieve it.
Mass adoption of contact-tracing apps is a slippery slope.
Cold War analogies can become a self-fulfilling prophecy and push the world down a slippery slope.
Already, the rapid escalation in the effects of climate change is being used to justify risky outdoor geoengineering experiments that could have devastating and unpredictable environmental consequences, and that could put the world on a slippery slope toward deployment, without the necessary safety assurances or regulatory structures.
But Libra’s benefits appear as slippery as a Pisces.
For European conservatives, most of whom are clustered within the EPP, any move toward political federalism represents a slippery slope to a “transfer union.”
There are bound to be some in his inner circle issuing paranoid warnings about a slippery slope leading to NATO taking over.
Those who worry about the slippery slope of protectionism should take heart from the experience under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade prior to the establishment of the World Trade Organization.
The young man also suffered from the slippery soil, which became damper and damper.
The bench, not properly smoothed, was soaked in moisture, and so slippery that they had to hold themselves on vigorously to avoid slipping off.
Every ten minutes they hoisted themselves back by a jerk on the slippery rock.
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