Sentences with phrase «happened on the slippery slopes»

What also happened on the slippery slopes of France last week was a small epidemic of upsets by upstarts.

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Second, and more important, these trials exhibit in exaggerated form what is also happening on a smaller scale throughout the criminal justice system: «Though no avalanche has occurred,» Wilson observes, «the courts are having difficulty keeping their footing on a slope that has become increasingly slippery.»

Once that happens, Social Security (and Medicare) will be on a slippery slope toward insolvency.

We are dealing with the added change in my illness having more and more impact on my mobility and confidence, it would have been so easy for me to retreat into my shell and my wonderful husband do more and more around the house that there would be no time to talk, hug and have fun — we will make sure this doesn't happen now that we can see the slippery slope we were on.