Sentences with phrase «not on some slippery slope»

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«It's a slippery slope, but we're not on the part where we've lost all control,» says Jacks.

Say, you really don't want to offer discounts because not only will your margins suffer, but also competing on price is a slippery slope you can't afford to step onto.

We certainly do not want to get on the slippery slope of excluding ever more categories with price movements the FOMC does not like.

Especially Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross, as Peter said, they are on a slippery slope and they are playing in a very dangerous arena here and this isn't good for equities.

The most obvious, which I will not spend much time on, is that it's another example of the slippery slope from the homosexuals» drive to re-define marriage.

While seemingly innocent at first glance, legalizing PAS will start us on a slippery slope that will not only take thousands of lives unnecessarily, but will exploit the poor, abuse the elderly and disabled, and ultimately devalue human life.

On what grounds do we decide that we have to give everyone something so that we «have an equal field» This is social justice baloney and the start of a slippery slope conndoms don't cost much.

Also do nt you see how slippery this slope that you are walking on is?

The only slippery slope here is the one you keep drawing in the air with your finger; every time I ask you to slide around on it in order to prove that it's not just in your mind, you can't, you just move your finger through the air again.

I'm not a big fan of slippery slope arguments, and this is borderline, but in what the justice said it boils down to «Will the person who leaves on personal views of religion, also have their points and objections dismissed as not being noteworthy» because they chose to leave during the opening prayer.

He had to admit, he later explained in a lecture given to Americans United for Life, that the slope from abortion to infanticide to euthanasia is «not slippery at all, but rather a logical throughway once you got on to it»:

Apple started down a slippery slope of remove apps based on content and not simply on operational capabilties, and they continue to muddy themselves in the process of sliding down said slope.

(For example, a Catholic diocese that has many employees, should not have to pay for stuff that is clearly against Catholic teachings... since, by default, everyone who works there is essentially required to be adhering to Catholic religious «rules»...)(*)(On the other hand — This really does give rise to some serious «slippery slope» possibilities... but I digress...)

I also hear others touching on changing or altering the second amendment, this is the beginning of a slippery slope that will not end with just that amendment, it could be your freedom of speech next.

Big deal we finished 6th several under O'Nearly but that is as far we ever were going to get & coz he could not get more dosh for more of the same he walked, leaving the club on the slippery slope to bankrupcy.

It is a slippery slope to go any deeper into this, as I am not sure 100 % on the philosophy of nature vs. nurture.

So that's probably not a slippery slope on which DiNapoli's supporters should attempt to score points at Wilson's expense.

I don't want to see anything that erodes it, and some of this is on a slippery slope.

«They want to put friction tape on the slope so the slope isn't slippery,» Lander says.

Trying to justify lifestyle choices by comparing humans to other species is a slippery slope that I certainly wouldn't want to find myself on.

David Simon and his writers... aren't out to change the world; the slippery slope of civilization is already in place on The Wire and Simon is just out to document how each and every person survives.

The danger of solely focusing on debt repayment over an extended period is that it «may start that slippery slope of accumulating debt again,» because you haven't achieved the right spending balance.

But I can't help but wonder if this could be a slippery slope that has the potential to ultimately have a far - ranging impact on the pet trade.

But at 8 weeks old, she didn't possess all the coordination she would one day have, so her resemblance to a drunken cyclist on a slippery slope was unmistakable.

there's a few other breeds that also need the breed club and reputable breeders to really step it up as their breeds are on the slippery exploitation slope (the breed clubs may be stepping up, but they just haven't gotten a handle on it yet) the reputable breeders don't just breed because they have the right nor do they sell to just anyone that feels they have a right to have such and such a dog.

Arguments that unilateral action by the United States produces little climate benefit, that a carbon tax will expand the size of government, that a carbon tax is a regressive, that adaptation and geo - engineering is preferable to emissions constraint, that economists can not confidently design a carbon tax that does more good than harm, that the legislative process can not deliver a carbon tax worth embracing, and that promoting a carbon tax puts conservatives on a slippery political slope are explored and found wanting.

As education in the US Public Schools has more and more become UN GREEN indoctrination, the santicmony of our 20 - something academic generation is on a slippery slope (not caused by melting ice caps) to the destruction of our nation.

It is not that approval of Keystone can lead to a slippery slope of additional emissions, it's that we are already on Mr. McKibben's slippery slope.

The steady growth of LPO has Gabe Acevedo fed up, and his guest post at Above The Law sounds a grim warning: «the practice of discovery in American law is not just on a slippery slope, it's careening down a steep mountain covered in ten feet of solid ice.

«If I start commenting on «I agree with this case» or «don't agree with this case,» I think we get into a slippery slope,» she said.

The slope on that middle ground seems much more slippery for courts, which demand what they regard as principled reasons for any distinction, than it is for legislatures, which may refuse to budge for no reason other than that the votes aren't there to do more or because of simple fiat.

On the other hand, I don't want to assume a slippery slope out of principle.

Newton also shares similar concerns to Todd and others in terms of a potential slippery slope toward AML and KYC compliance on the vast majority (if not all) of Bitcoin transactions.

Because once you start living together, as noted last week, you might find yourself on a slippery slope to a marriage that does not have much of a fighting chance.

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.