This story tells how Maui uses his magical powers to slow the path of the sun across the sky, allowing crops more time to grow, fishermen more time to fish, and children more time to play. (hookipabayview.com)
This was the moment when the soft - left broke with the Bennites and the glacially - slow path back to power (17 years later) was begun. (labour-uncut.co.uk)
With spring in full swing in the Northern Hemisphere, plants will start to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere, reducing the CO2 ppm below the 400 ppm level, but that doesn't slow a path to 450 ppm or more, at which level we are looking at a 2 degrees Celsius increase in global temperatures. (gracelinks.org)