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At the foot of the slope, just next to the appalling semi-open-air toilets, were the “Africans,” amidst whose tents runs filth from up the slope.
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.
This slope offers President Barack Obama a real opportunity to restore the federal government’s revenue base to what it was in the mid-1990’s.
If, instead, the US faces a fiscal slope, then people who refuse to consider raising taxes – namely, Republicans in the US Congress’s House of Representatives – have a very weak hand indeed.
Then, as America heads steadily down the fiscal slope in early 2013, the House Republicans would have a choice.
Fortunately, the fiscal slope gives Obama the opportunity to bring it about – and even to write some history in the process.
But it puts the EU on a slippery slope.
Efforts in 1823 and 1856 to pass laws constraining free speech were shouted down by members of Parliament using very modern-sounding objections: any curtailment of press freedom constituted a “slippery slope,” while one man’s sedition or blasphemy was another man’s common-sense opinion.
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.
Like the tens of thousands who huddle here for safety, he ekes out a life for his children and grandchildren on a muddy and infertile 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.
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.
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.
Nonetheless, critics fear the slippery slope.
Will any country that legalizes therapeutic cloning inevitably slide down the so-called slippery slope and end up tolerating reproductive cloning?
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