In fact most skiers and coaches can't stand on the hill because of the risk of sliding down.
The risk of sliding down the global 'premier league' of scientific nations is not simply one of pride, but of real economic cost in losing the 'spillover' benefits of competing with the big guns.
He warned that the country was at risk of sliding into a state of chaos, which would allow al-Qaida to flourish and present a security threat to the rest of the world.
He listed about a dozen current nations — Yugoslavia, Congo, some former Soviet republics among them — and asked the class as a whole to decide which was at the greatest risk of sliding into genocide.
At the risk of sliding into the deep, deep hole that is cat obsession, I have to tell you the next chapter in the continuing story of Mittens, the stray who showed up at our house a few months ago.
A week ago, after seeing his team beaten at Newcastle, Tony Pulis warned that West Bromwich Albion were at risk of sliding into a relegation battle after a run of five League games without a win.
But as long as the region cannot grow — and the European Commission has just forecast zero growth this year for the European Union as a whole and shrinkage for several countries, including Italy and Spain — there is a risk of sliding back into crisis.
Yet he must have realised that the South Sudanese conundrum is only slightly less complicated than the one he left behind.South Sudan, he warned on arrival in neighbouring Ethiopia on April 29th, was at risk of sliding into genocide.
Indeed, Hull is not alone in its struggle to stay above water, the Mail Online reported that there are 7,000 properties around the English and Welsh coastlines at risk of sliding into the sea.
By Susan Orlean March 3, 2011 At the risk of sliding into the deep, deep hole that is cat obsession, I have to tell you the next chapter in the continuing story of Mittens, the stray who showed up at our house a few months ago.
