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But that forecast assumes continued growth, whereas France is slipping into recession.
For many people, paying to see a doctor, obtaining medications, seeking family-planning advice, or even getting immunized against common illnesses is a choice between staying healthy and slipping into poverty.
Now, when it is needed once again, the EU is slipping toward the sidelines.
Indeed, it should be considered an indispensable strategic partner for those in the international community who want to prevent the entirety of East Africa from slipping into chaos.
When Mubarak felt his power was slipping and reached out to his adversaries, he found disorganized opposition parties with little political experience and no support in society.
If it turns out that girls at risk of not receiving all three doses of the HPV vaccine are also those with an elevated risk of being infected and missing cervical screenings as adults, they may be slipping through not one but two nets.
Imagine that you are in a family affected by AIDS, your breadwinner received a death warrant, and you watched this person slipping away.
Poland is slipping into illiberalism, and regimes stretching from North Africa to the Hindu Kush are already there.
Governments that live by their constitutional principles, even when they are imperfectly interpreted and applied, should avoid slipping back into dictatorship and are likely to be self-correcting over time.
Growth will slow, with Europe and/or America possibly even slipping back into recession.
A unique opportunity to strengthen the world’s financial infrastructure and increase economic efficiency for many years to come could be slipping away.
And French economic indicators are slipping quickly.
With German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s own leadership slipping, France looked like an island of hope in a sea of Western despair.
And Japan is already slipping back into recession because of the earthquake.
In fact, with Japan’s real annual GDP growth slipping to 0.6% since Shinzo Abe was elected Prime Minister in late 2012 – one-third slower than the sluggish 0.9% average annual rate over the preceding 22 lost years (1991 to 2012) – the so-called maximum stimulus of “Abenomics” has been an abject failure.
The authority of conventional politicians and traditional media is slipping away fast.
For all of China’s long-term structural problems, it is not exactly slipping into recession.
The power of the transatlantic axis that used to run the world is slipping away, and the sense of losing control is being felt by these countries’ political elites and ordinary citizens alike.
That is something to think about as this decade draws to a close – and as the chance for humanity to take another momentous leap forward appears to be slipping away.
Once we enter the domain of digital simulation, how do we keep from slipping into an endless matrix of appearances?
The country was running a current-account surplus, but the pound was slipping against the dollar, causing the Bank of England to sell its dollar reserves to defend the fixed exchange rate.
Yet India’s investment-to-GDP ratio is now slipping, from over 35% in the last eight years to below 30% today.
Afghanistan is slipping from control.
They will need all the energy and dedication they can muster to pivot quickly from Europe’s forced normality to a more durable strategy for recovery, or at least to stop drivers of renewed prosperity from slipping farther away before they can be harnessed.
Frightened populations can all too easily summon images of radical refugees slipping across borders intent on wreaking mayhem.
Moreover, Abbas’s authority is slipping, and there is no mandate for a Palestinian leader to pursue serious peace efforts in today’s political climate.
Her assault on excessively powerful trade unions, moreover, made Britain governable, at a time when the country seemed to be slipping into drift and disorder.
Putin’s image as a steward of Russia’s greatness and a symbol of hope is slipping away, and his tried-and-true tactic for renewing his popularity – say, annexing territory from a neighboring country or intervening in a civil war – is not a practical long-term strategy.
The economy was careening like a rudderless ship, and the sharp operators who had duped us into getting on board – call them the 1% – were slipping away in the only lifeboats.
But with the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi by his own government, the poisoning of former Russian spies living in the United Kingdom, and whispers that the head of Interpol, Meng Hongwei, may have been executed in China, the curtain has been slipping more than usual of late.
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