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Slope in sentence

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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.
So I always felt like my job was to take these ideas and kind of turn them into company goals, make them achievable, and kind of roll the company over from this steep slope, get it comfortable.
And I noticed every time I felt like we were there, we were rolling over, people were getting comfortable, Elon would throw something out there, and all of a sudden, we're not comfortable and we're climbing that steep slope again.
But then once I realized that that's his job, and my job is to get the company close to comfortable so he can push again and put us back on that slope, then I started liking my job a lot more, instead of always being frustrated.
And one day I go to the airport to meet my father, and as I walk up this grassy slope from the car park to the terminal building, I'm stopped by two soldiers wielding AK-47 assault weapons.
People say we should call it the fiscal slope, or we should call it an austerity crisis, but then other people say, no, that's even more partisan.
In principle, you could imagine to find sand dunes of any slope angle in a beach, and yet, the slope angles of sand dunes are typically around 30, 35 degrees.
As a result, the vast majority of sand dunes have slope angles around the critical value, near to collapse.
Then you use a compass and an inclinometer to measure the direction the cave is headed and measure the slope of the floor and the ceilings.
If you knew that any injury could kill you, would you ride a motorcycle, bomb down a ski slope, climb a ladder to hang your Christmas lights, let your kid slide into home plate?
This magnification of threats, this compounding of factors is what Jeremy Jackson describes as the "slippery slope to slime."
They were also saying that it looks asymmetric, meaning that instead of the clean, U-shaped dip that we saw with Jupiter, it had this strange slope that you can see on the left side.
So what are the seven social processes that grease the slippery slope of evil?
But that basic math accounts both for the steep slope and for the long, flat tail.
Domestic workers know that any time a single person becomes disposable, it's a slippery slope.
And domestic workers know it's a slippery slope when we start to see a worker as less than a real worker, to a woman as less than a woman, to a mother as less than a mother, to a child as less than a child.
And what was so fun about it was this: the skull pieces got closer and closer to the roots of the tree, and fairly recently the tree had grown up, but it had found that the skull had captured nice water in the hillside, and so it had decided to grow its roots in and around this, holding it in place and preventing it from washing away down the slope.
Notice also that on all of these graphs, the slope is steeper on in-group, authority, purity, which shows that, within any country, the disagreement isn't over harm and fairness.
Now, it's kind of a little bit of a challenge driving down a slope like this.
Armando Manni is a former filmmaker who makes this olive oil from an olive that grows on a single slope in Tuscany.
So we thought, let's put an alpine ski slope on the roof of the power plant.
So you don't have to tell what latitude, longitude you're at, what your roof slope angle is, or what orientation.
This was expensive, it was time-consuming, and it could be a little risky putting a whole bunch of rugby players on a ski slope, right?
If you can drop this recipe on the map on a sandy soil, on a clay soil, on a steep slope, on flat soil, you put those different recipes; if you combine them, out of that comes a business plan, comes a work plan, and you can optimize it for the amount of labor you have available or for the amount of fertilizer you have, and you can do it.
And we found that not only were the distributions these straight lines, but the slope of these lines, they clustered around this value of alpha equals 2.5.
And negative alpha is the slope of that line I showed you before.
And because Copenhagen is completely flat, if you want to have a nice south-facing slope with a view, you basically have to do it yourself.
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