By midsummer, the U.S. economy saw a "soft patch" and faced sliding back into recession.
In many European countries there is not only negligible growth but countries are sliding back into recession.
Sliding back in as chair is Liu Chuanzhi, the Chinese visionary who founded Lenovo in a modest Beijing shed in 1984.
While most economists were anticipating anemic 1% growth, gross domestic product actually dropped 0.1%, sliding back yet again into recessionary territory.
Westwood, in fact, was three clear of the field on five under at one stage before sliding back on the inward run.
Reginald Dumas, Mr Annan's envoy to Haiti, says the international community needs to make a 20-year commitment to prevent the country sliding back into violence yet again.
All of this contradicting data, and much more, is instead consistent with the more grim reality that the economy is sliding back into renewed, double dip, recession.
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"The first fall in service sector activity for two years raises the likelihood that the UK economy is sliding back into recession, " said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit.
While the EU and the U.S.A are in weak recovery, and potentially sliding back into another recession, India, Brazil, and especially China, as well as the up-and-coming N-11 markets, are growing rapidly.
But if differences linger, and the careful schedule that provides for elections in 2009 and a referendum on southern independence in 2011 begins to slip much further, Sudan could find itself sliding back into a swamp deeper even than Darfur's.
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We have this, for example, from Chris Williamson at Markit: "While the UK clearly faces a clear risk of sliding back into another recession, which is commonly defined as two consecutive quarter of declining GDP, there are growing indications that any downturn is likely to be mild and short-lived".
It would be easy to see eurobonds leading to massive back-sliding in countries like Italy and Greece.
Later, Roach is shown at the hospital, fastened to his back, sliding into a machine for a brain scan.
Another Bale run down the left led to the first goal, a sharp ball behind the defence just avoiding Simon Church, but Vaughan sliding in near the back post to fire home his first international goal in 16 games.
This was then followed by months of foot-dragging about whether ESM would really be allowed to recapitalize banks as well as plenty of back-sliding (most notably from Germany) on allowing a single bank supervisor to operate throughout the euro area.
Bob leans in toward her, sliding his arm along the back of her chair.
The ruling came down a day after Kaleta blindsided Richards in the back and sent him sliding headfirst into the boards in the third period of Buffalo's 3-2 shootout loss at New York.
Indonesia's rupiah, which was sliding earlier this year, has bounced back to around its highest since late 2004.
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Early next year Nokia will begin selling the new N95, a luxe phone with a silvery front, beige back and two-way sliding top.
BMW's share price has been sliding as reports of its British troubles echoed back across the Channel.
After charging up the battery, sliding it into the rack system at the back of the bike (which could not be simpler), and locking it into place, you're ready to go.
In short it will take a miracle to send the stock back up the slippery slope it is sliding down.
Osman almost immediately had a chance to put Everton back in front as he scampered in behind the Villa back line, but Dunne and Warnock came sliding across.
The interface is entirely text and music-based -- musicians, if you can call them that, scan an instrument name on the page before sliding over to the notes, which can be played back at different pitches by moving the reader vertically along the line.
Once inside an app, sliding your finger from any edge across the screen brings you back to whichever of the three views you started from.
Novakovic connected with an inswinging cross to finish at the back post and then substitute Ljubijankic outmuscled Evans before sliding the beyond Taylor and into the net.
Birmingham rallied well and on the hour Cameron Jerome ran clear to pull a goal back, but late on Fraizer Campbell's sliding finish sealed the home victory.
Instead of sliding straight in, as with the X10i, it sits slightly back in your ear.
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