Sentences with phrase «world on a slippery slope»

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The main concern is that without the support of the two largest economies, the rules - based system of international trade can quickly lose its authority, leaving the world economy on a slippery slope towards a full - scale trade war.

In other words, by sneaking below the barriers of suspicion, it will open the floodgates to GMO technology and from then on to a slippery slope and the takeover of the world's seed supply (See Speak of the Devil, page 74).

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.

I see your joining this group as an indication that the slippery slope might be an inevitable one given government education policy, funding for the state system and the UKs changing position on the world stage.

Instead, he embarks on a mission to rid the world of evil, creating a tyrannical regime through a slippery slope of good intentions that eventually gets defeated.

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.