Sentences with phrase «term slippery slope»

It seems to me that the American tradition of Christianity gives a complete new meaning to the term slippery slope.

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In fact, a recent study in the American Journal of Public Health finds that the EPA «has moved away from the public interest and explicitly favored the interests of the regulated industries,» and is on the slippery slope to what scholars term «regulatory capture,» in which a government agency makes rules in the interest of an industry it's supposed to regulate rather than the public.

Short - term cash loans can be a slippery slope.

I know that once I hear or read one of those terms, it almost always means that the person using the term is going to tell us that their magic term means they are right and the other person is wrong because the other person is using a «straw man», they're «cherry picking» or now they're on «the slippery slope».

Personally, I cringe when I hear terms like «the slippery slope», «straw man», and «cherry picking».

I firmly believe that this one decision has the potential for long - term ramifications, putting Erie County on a slippery slope from which it may never recover.

Also, please google the term «slippery slope fallacy» with regards to your point about neuroplasticity.

Also gnawing at him is the thought that all of the anguish could have been avoided if someone had warned him early on about what he terms the «slippery slope» that can lead to sex with...

It's important to really understand the word «bestseller,» because as we've seen with the recent Amazon crackdown of using terms like «bestseller» on your book cover (read more on this here), it can be a slippery slope.

So if she collects cash for a service she would have to deposit it in a personal account and write a check to her business account (slippery slope in terms of cash intermingling.)

Dr. Morrow walks carefully through the main arguments against support for SRM research — moral hazard, slippery slope, un-governability, and «inherent immorality» — and offers a careful weighing of the strengths of those contentions against what he terms the «core argument» in favor of SRM research, namely that SRM should be examined as a potentially valuable component of a portfolio of responses to climate change.

They seem to have a strong belief that bitcoin will not be able to scale long term, and any block size increase is a slippery slope to a future that they are unwilling to allow.

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.

SURELY we are better than this??? Can you spell FIDUCIARY DUTY — among other terms??? We are headed down a slippery slope indeed.