Sentences with phrase «on the slippery slope down»

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I told him that he had begun to slide down a slippery slope, for the five points of Calvinism are like five links on a chain: they stand or fall together and if one link in the chain breaks, it is only a matter of time before the whole system unravels.

To be fair, both sides of the gender debate have been guilty of sliding down a slippery slope, which in my view is unnecessary, given the wealth of excellent resources available to help us accurately interpret Scripture on issues related to gender, sexuality, and faith.

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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.

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.

You wrote: «if you have ever had concerns about «going down the slippery slope» by giving up the belief in the inspiration or inerrancy of Scripture, this book is an excellent source to see how someone can abandon these and still hold on to their faith.»

Again, Jeremy's words: ««if you have ever had concerns about «going down the slippery slope» by giving up the belief in the inspiration or inerrancy of Scripture, this book is an excellent source to see how someone can abandon these and still hold on to their faith.

I'm quite sure that we'll continue to slide down the slippery slope we got on ever since kroenke, the lizardman from the planet Greed came to the club.

If you've ever looked up «play sand» on the internet and followed any of the links down the various rabbit holes, then you know that it's a very slippery slope toward deciding to never let your child anywhere near a sandbox ever again with a dose of potentially prohibiting them from the beach as well.

But once you start down the slippery slope of cutting out all the veggies to look like the Backyardigans, I wonder if you've started to lose some perspective on parental roles.

Then we can ride down the slippery slope and ban hockey and football because they certainly destroy bodies and inflict life - long injuries on nearly all participants as well.

And during his now regular Friday morning appearance on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show, the mayor said that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's newly proposed guidelines to crack down on improper coordination by independent expenditure groups lead to «an awfully slippery slope» and would be «hard to justify legally.»

Striving to be comfortable in your outfit is one thing, but pairing leggings with running shoes and a sweater while running errands on Saturday could lead you down a slippery slope into a sweats - only wardrobe.

He or she will be sure to tell you that — despite long summers spent basking on the beaches of the Riviera, despite winter breaks spent sliding down the slippery slopes of Aspen, despite hours that would make a banker green with envy, despite full - time salaries spent on filling the leisure hours left by what are really only part - time jobs — teaching is a tough profession.

Since 1972 Australian education has gone down a slippery slope where we started funding private schools for the first time on the basis of «school choice».

All of us are grappling in one capacity or another with the industry's rapidly advancing new suite of potentials that can look, on a good day, like bright new beginnings, and on another day like an accelerating luge run down the slippery slope directly into opportunism, blurring ethical lines, and new relationships under the banner of author management.

It's a slippery slope, once you start on it, once you've ignored that knock in the engine for long enough and it starts to miss occasionally as you careen down some hill dazedly gripping the wheel.

You can easily go down a slippery slope of using more and more credit without actually getting ahead on your debt.

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.

The evidence in front of the court in Rodriguez in 1993 and in front of the Senate Special Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in June 1995, was taken to demonstrate that: medical associations around the world were opposed to decriminalising assisted suicide; palliative care was threatened by decriminalisation; and descents down the slippery slope from voluntary to non-voluntary and even involuntary euthanasia follow decriminalisation.

Concerning, prosecution argument (iii), Bingham f lags up his concerns that the criminal courts have sadly slid down the slippery slope to the point where, as here, witnesses can give anonymous evidence, with the assistance of excessively draconian «protective measures», which cumulatively consign the defendant's right to a fair trial, to the legal dustbin, «by a series of small steps, largely unobjectionable on their own facts, the courts have arrived at a position which is irreconcilable with long - standing principle.»

This is indeed a slippery slope to attempt to slide down on.