Sentence examples for slippery problem from inspiring English sources

To give an example of prevalent attitudes, Balint dismissed the slippery problem of patient confidentiality with: "A patient may recognise himself in the description of his case.

He was trying to make the slippery problem of the evolution of human culture as tractable as that of biological evolution, and he thought that if cultural information could somehow be divided into separately transmissible elements, in the way that biologically heritable information is divided into genes, the rest might follow.

This is all painfully self-conscious, but it at least allows Le to stage some of the real and slippery problems facing a nonwhite writer trying to negotiate the world of contemporary fiction production.

"Why should the courts get into this slippery slope problem?" she asked.

This could make the glass very slippery and cause problems.

But "stoneware" lacks the cultural resonance of "porcelain," which refers to a form the Chinese invented, and using glaze would have made the seeds less seedlike and probably very slippery, creating a different problem for the public.

Mary agrees that the slippery slope is a problem but concludes that the "magnitude" of his interventions were unusually sleazy and suspect.

Non-slippery - A slippery floor might create problem for the patients to walk on.

The problem with slippery-slope arguments ("Allow abortion in the first trimester, and it will end in infanticide!") is not that they are inadmissible but that they are always true.

But those slippery surfaces could pose problems later in the animals' lives if they develop joint issues, Dr. Korneich said, so he suggested putting down runners on rainy days for aging pets.

In disadvantaged areas with diverse populations and myriad economic and social problems, the slippery use of the language of "gangs" and its loose association with young people mitigates against effective policing, providing a dangerous shortcut to understanding youth conflict.