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The idea behind a slippery slope is that if you do x, which is acceptable, you will end up doing y, which is not.
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.
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.
The dots are scattered tightly around a straight line with a slope of 0.36.
Acceding to their demands is a slippery slope that might well end with the collapse of the democratic order.
The slope of the simplest possible Phillips curve, when accounting for adaptive expectations, was -0.54: each percentage point decline in unemployment below the estimated natural rate translated into a 0.54 percentage point increase in inflation the following year.
The estimated negative slope of the Phillips curve – that -0.54 figure – between the late 1950s and the late 1980s was drawn largely from six important observations.
Since 1988, however, the slope of the simplest possible Phillips curve has been effectively zero, with an estimated regression coefficient of just -0.03.
For China’s leaders, any move perceived as a concession would be the first step on a slippery slope.
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.
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.
An R of two would generate a peak late this summer that would make Lombardy and New York look like a bunny slope.
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.
But still it was he: the slope of the head was his, the lips were his, the soft neck and the broad shoulders.
The man saw on his right a paling, a wall of coarse planks shutting in a line of rails, while a grassy slope rose on the left surmounted by confused gables, a vision of a village with low uniform roofs.
They let themselves down on their backs, flattening their shoulders for fear of taking the skin off their foreheads, and they slipped so fast down the rocky slope, polished by all the rumps of the workers, that they were obliged from time to time to hold on to the woodwork, so that their backsides should not catch fire, as they said jokingly.
Then his eyes rested again at the bottom of the clay slope, towards the Voreux, on two enormous masses of bricks made and burnt on the spot.
But on the other side it went winding down through Montsou, which was built on the slope of a large undulation in the plain.
The little brick houses, daubed over to enliven the climate, some yellow, others blue, others black--the last, no doubt, in order to reach at once their final shade--went serpentining down to right and to left to the bottom of the slope.
But Maheu had already glided along the slope of the cutting, saying:"It's a fall!
As for Deneulin, he was for a strong Government; he declared that the emperor was gliding down the slope of dangerous concessions.
It spread out in a gentle slope, surrounded by tall thickets and superb beeches with straight regular trunks, which formed a white colonnade patched with green lichens; fallen giants were also lying in the grass, while on the left a mass of logs formed a geometrical cube.
The moon, still beneath the horizon, only lit up the topmost branches, and the crowd, remaining in the darkness, stood above it at the top of the slope like a bar of shadow.
It was especially the defective slope of the ladders from which she suffered, the almost perpendicular position which obliged her to hoist herself up by the strength of her wrists, with her belly against the wood.
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