But even if it had once been the case, it's increasingly hard to make any form of that argument now.
If you believed the argument in its most simplistic form, property prices should have gone through the roof in Japan since 1995.
While the "slippery slope" argument can, and ought to, be a legitimate cautionary policy tool, the invocation of the slippery slope argument can be its own form of slippery slope and must be applied with a large measure of caution.
The argument comes down to what goes on Form 433-A. On Form 433-A you list out your monthly income and your monthly living expenses.
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Since it is perfectly possible for a candidate to state that their "results are being held over" as part of their personal statement in the UCAS form, the balance of argument is against cashing in until this becomes necessary.
The argument may still be continuing, in one form or another, when this commission packs its bags at the start of 2005.
Because he was writing novels when the form was so new, an argument can be made that Defoe's casting of fiction as fact was simply a daring experiment within an emerging genre.
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"Although the actual arbitration proceedings are the subject of confidentiality, as night follows day what's in that legal document at the High Court will form the basis for the legal argument at the arbitration, " said Cramer.
But, we must be careful when using the slippery slope argument that it doesn't become a disguised form of "moral relativism" or irrationalism.
Today, Science Magazine, one of the top scientific journals and the original publisher of the GFAJ-1 work, is publishing two new papers that completely demolish the argument that GFAJ-1 is a completely new form of life.
There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.
Others surely felt that DSL and its technology were a waste, but I never did, nor have I ever heard a cogent argument that suggests this area will not remain a dominant form of broadband for decades to come.
But there's also a strong argument for grabbing the lead in this rough-and-tumble form of swimming: it disentangles you from the arms and legs of other swimmers.
Throughout its life Amtrak has made the argument, repeatedly, that rail is the most cost-effective and environmentally sound form of travel.
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It's an argument familiar to Sir Bob Russell, who has already told the Commons that Colchester Sixth Form College was the most successful in the country but that the funding given for each student was less than that given to students who attended school sixth forms.
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