There was the mother who once turned to leave him with a screaming and squirming "slippery as a seal" infant.
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So should the Swede be seen now as a slippery customer, or as a football coach who had achieved modest success with England, and who is entitled to his private life?
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Complicity is a slippery word, but there is a degree of truth in what he says.
While dirt would seem to be a slippery surface compared to pavement, a sprint car bites into the dirt and can outaccelerate almost any other vehicle: 0 to 60 in about 3 seconds.
While dirt would seem to be a slippery surface compared to pavement, a sprint car bites into the dirt and can accelerate faster than almost any other vehicle: 0 to 95kph in about 3 seconds.
National competitiveness is a slippery and sometimes incoherent idea, but a coherent version is to take it to mean a population with the human capital to adapt when old jobs go away, and shift quickly out of dying industries and into growing ones.
But it's a slippery slope because if most games start adopting this as a tactic you're effectively devaluing the money gamers have had to lay out in the first place.
Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany argued against the plus-one last month, calling it a "slippery slope" that could lead to a larger, full-blown playoff.
Despite some recent short-term positive economic signs, America remains on a slippery economic slope.
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But far be it for us to put you on a slippery slope to dependency.
Groups like the American Civil Liberties Union see DNA evidence as a slippery slope, however.
Conservative satirists would love to toss some kryptonite at him, but he is a slippery target.
You want to talk about a slippery slope or how guns don't kill people, people do.
"It's a slippery-slope deal, " says Dr. Deborah Peel, founder of Patient Privacy Rights, which advocates for medical-data confidentiality.
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So how then does a firm prevent this being a slippery slope to throwing the good after the bad?
This pro-consumer concept puts the console companies on a slippery slope toward doom.
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But right-to-life groups and religious leaders see it as the first step down a slippery slope to full human cloning.
After that there was a lot of champagne in the changing rooms and a slippery slope into the Saturday night celebrations.
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She steadied herself by hanging on to a slippery boulder sticking up midstream and wondered if she should go any farther.
For social media commentator Jeff Jarvis, aligning themselves with the rules of particular countries could be a slippery slope for the company.
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Other industry groups see any government intervention and oversight in their policies as a slippery slope toward government control of the internet.
Not only has this put off many swing voters, it has also cemented the impression that Mr Romney is a slippery flip-flopper.
Will this not lead down a slippery slope to genetic segregation of the sort depicted in the genetic dystopias beloved of science-fiction?
Coordinating all the degrees of articulation is also a slippery problem Choset and others are working on, as well as dealing with financial constraints.
Is there a way to do so without creating a slippery slope that limits all speech that tenuously connects to some kind of mischief?
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Credit cards can also be a slippery slope for new users.
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But Russian diplomats have held the line against economic sanctions, describing them as the start of a slippery slope to military intervention, which Russia opposes.
Attribution is a slippery subject in the world of cyber attacks.
But others at the town halls argue that banning those guns isn't the answer, and could even be a slippery slope toward banning all guns.
Robertson finds the trend back toward halfnimity a slippery slope.
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