Sentence examples for slippage from the from inspiring English sources

But it would represent further slippage from the sector's highs before the crisis.

Taiwan's own domestic politics may not allow much slippage from the brinkman's position staked out by Mr. Lee.

Grace has a distinctive and likable voice, rich with lively idiom and often very funny, though it is at times hard to follow the whimsical slippage from the third person to the first as her thoughts intercut the narrative.

By failing to take the appeal, the two justices said, the Supreme Court in effect blessed what they characterized as a slippage from the rigorous review required by court precedents.

"Today, yet again, Standard & Poor's has said that a further slippage from the government's projected pathway to surplus in 2020-21 could see a loss of Australia's triple-A credit rating.

He had experienced a steady slippage from the time when he ran the nearly 1.6 miles around the reservoir 10 times a day — making a total of more than 200,000 trips, Mr. Arroyo figured.

To possess a sense of what is normal is to posit the existence of the abnormal and be forced to ponder the possibility of slippage from one to the other.

As for the meaning of the phrase, he added, the slippage from six yards to nine — part of the same "numerical phrase inflation," as he puts it, that turned "Cloud 7" to "Cloud 9" — suggests it doesn't refer to anything in particular any more than, say, "the whole shebang" does.

Vered Mallon New York, Feb. 15, 2008 • To the Editor: David Brooks notes America's slippage from leadership of the free world and implies that it is due to a deterioration in our workers' education and our health care payments system.

With several national polls showing a dead-heat race before the second debate, Republicans expressed confidence that Mr. Bush's improved showing on Friday would stem the slippage from his angrier performance in the first meeting.

At the same time, the slippage from passion to silliness, from power to posturing, in the shift from Thief to Miami Vice is hard to avoid.