Sentence examples for slippages from inspiring English sources

How to Be Both is full of time play – slippages, "memories complete with all their forgettings" (as the book puts it), lurchings forwards, unhookings from linearity, the sense that time is not sequential so much as, Smith puts it, "dimensional".

This is a problem, but slippages happen across the ability spectrum, and lower-ability pupils have the added problems of being more likely to truant, be excluded or become unemployed.

In this context, perhaps those perplexing slippages in formal grades, mirrored in other post-industrial countries, ought actually to raise a cheer.

The IMF chief in Nigeria, Reinold van Til, has welcomed the rescheduling agreement but gives warning that there should be "no more slippages in the timetable".In this section Taking part Welcome mat Can Bibi foil Barak's bid to block him?

But on Monday Judge Rhodes ruled that delinquent customers have no right to free water, adding "Detroit cannot afford any revenue slippages".

As the relatively young Pacific plate dives beneath the continental land mass, sudden slippages along the grinding rock faces breed swarms of earthquakes, big and small.

Pressure had mounted since then for Ritchie to stand down given the continued slippage in support for the SDLP.

I now note the slippage of my social standards; events seemingly acceptable at the time now appear abhorrent.

Some slippage is inevitable: the CSU won 61% of the state vote in 2003, when Bavarians registered their anger against an unpopular government in Berlin.

In the Netherlands, where legislation has been in place for the longest time, some researchers seem to have found disquieting signs of slippage.

In fact, the easing of bond-market pressure gives him space to look beyond the short term and tackle Spain's chronic problems of low growth and soaring unemployment.To excuse its slippage the government points to Spain's shoddy fiscal performance last year (mostly under Socialist rule).