Sentence examples for slippage that from inspiring English sources

The procedures are intended to catch the kind of slippage that got the euro zone into its current mess.

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.

Observers of current events, in the Iraqi political arena in particular, will be conscious of the snail's pace and potential for slippage that occurs in such national unity polity.

There is a slippage between this kind of hero and the "professional killer" it is her military's mission to train -- a slippage that creates the impression that something else is driving her argument.

When we talk of a particular conductor's approach to a composer, we speak of "Furtwängler's Brahms" or "Celibidache's Bruckner", a slippage that makes the composers the property of their conductors.

They're performances that make you wonder where the character leaves off and the man playing him has taken hold, a slippage that can lead to greatness, but also to moments of such excess and even grotesque comedy that they leave you squirming.

A thoughtful edit might have removed many of the stylistic slippages that mar "The Casual Vacancy".

These large burrs and chippings were found to be induced by large slippages that are unique to amorphous alloys.

"I am concerned with the slippages that occur when information is translated from one source to another, where meaning shifts and migrates, and data becomes malleable," Wolowiec writes, in her artist's statement.

"I am concerned with the slippages that occur when information is translated from one source to another, where meaning shifts and migrates, and data becomes malleable," Wolowiec writes in her artist statement.

And here's another form of boundary-slippage that readers complain about, one that is technology-driven.