Sentence examples for put the slippery from inspiring English sources

She should take a page from Stephen Colbert and put the slippery Frey on her "Dead to me" list.

Almost 70 years have passed since Friedrich Hayek predicted (or at any rate was understood by his admirers to predict) that Britain's welfare state would put the nation on the slippery slope to Stalinism; 46 years have passed since Medicare went into effect; as far as most of us can tell, freedom hasn't died on either side of the Atlantic.

Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the senior Republican on the Finance Committee, said the bill put the nation on "a slippery slope toward more and more government control of health care".

That will sometimes (not always) put the speaker on a slippery slope towards the view that people who fail to show such restraint bear some responsibility for the consequences.Archbishop Justin Welby, the francophile leader of the world's 80m Anglicans, was one of first clerics who adopted the slogan "Je Suis Charlie" and, as many people saw it, called terrorism by its proper name.

Republicans were quick to register their concern that even communicating with terrorists might put the U.S. on a slippery slope.

Others have worried that the mission could put the U.S. on a slippery slope to deeper involvement in yet another Muslim country – on top of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Instead of forcing users to write with a stylus on a computer's slippery display, Livescribe put the computer inside a plump ballpoint pen that is used on paper imprinted with nearly invisible miniature dots.

Devolution, says John Curtice of Strathclyde University, "has to date neither proven to be a slippery slope to independence nor put the nationalist genie back in the bottle".

If you put the shoe on the ground without letting the deodorant dry, your shoe will be even slipperier than before.

If you have an automatic transmission put the selector lever to 2. Many cars lock the transmission in second gear to facilitate easier starting from a slippery surface.

"If that line is erased, it puts the whole enterprise on the slippery slope toward further professionalization," she said.