Sentence examples for slackening the from inspiring English sources

I recall it only as a taut rope slackening — the sudden eradication of pressure.

And, far from slackening the pace of the cuts, Osborne is looking to step them up during the next parliament, if the Conservatives win.

Then, slackening the tough-guy stance a bit, he suggested that this is the stuff of which music is made: peace and love, along with various bodily fluids.

The piece, which can use (according to Ms. Forti's score, or set of instructions) three or four performers, involves their moving from bottom to top and side to side by pulling on or slackening the ropes.

Lyle kept working, however, never slackening the brisk pace he had picked up at Warner Bros. — and taking pride in never having to supplement his actor's income with, say, selling real estate.

Meanwhile, China's export tax credit had been made less generous, raw-material costs were increasing month by month, the American economy was slackening, the American dollar was a dog, and yet the factory couldn't pass along its increased costs to its customers — the American buyers would simply go to another factory.

Both of these actions will slacken the zonular fibres and therefore allow the change in shape.

He never surrendered his pursuit of literary greatness--merely shifted the mode and slackened the pace.

It has brought the prices of materials and energy down sharply and slackened the labour market.

While the romantic entanglements tighten and slacken, the lovers' families are woven among them.

Add a dash of milk or coffee to slacken the mixture, if necessary.