Sentence examples for For the slippage from inspiring English sources

One important reason for the slippage has been quiescent boards.

The parent company, Emhart, said in a statement that it accepted "full responsibility for the delays in getting the plant into compliance, even though a series of events beyond its control were largely responsible for the slippage". The standards it violated, part of the Clean Water Act, took effect in 1984 and 1985, according to Mr. Deland.

There was apparently no attempt to introduce a leap-year day to compensate for the slippage of one day every four years; as a result, the civil calendar slowly rotated through the seasons, making a complete cycle through the solar calendar after 1,460 years (referred to as a Sothic cycle).

Mr. Ney, who was making a string of phone calls on behalf of his bill, said, "There are a lot of people in play here," and added, "Frankly, the fact that the Shays-Meehan bill is still evolving as we speak means they are trying to compensate for the slippage they have".

Reasons for the slippage include the growth of cable networks, independent stations and the birth and rise of the Fox network.

(It's not a perfect overlap, since a sliver of these cavemen-and-dinosaurs folks vote for Democrats on economic and racial lines, while there is a significant chunk of science-oriented authoritarians and radical capitalists who make up for the slippage).

Average time for execution of the slippage and death pathways both varied ∼2.5 fold across the 4 cell lines that we studied.

Figure 4c shows the value of the slippage ratio for all three scenarios with several values for (kappa ) for one configuration.

The national government in Madrid has blamed Spain's regional governments, estimating that they accounted for about two-thirds of the slippage last year.

So, for example, the slippage that allows "infer" to mean "imply" weakens the valuable distinction between a person's drawing a conclusion and an argument's requiring one.

For our democracies, the slippage is a doubly dangerous one.