Sentence examples for slippery state from inspiring English sources

It's really gorgeous: crosscut between day and night, fiction and reality, it encapsulates the show's operative but ultimately airy metaphor about the slippery state of art now.

In part because of Moorman's reluctance to conform to a particular bracket, opting instead to float in an eternally slippery state of in-between, history didn't know quite where to place her.

These results suggested that although DTT or MnCl2 could convert the integrins into an active-form conformation that bound to ECM, such chemically activated integrins were unable to re-establish ECM-cytoskeleton coupling, thereby locking retrograde F-actin flow at a persistent slippery state that failed to drive cell advance.

"It was as if we put together a combination of Slippery Rock State and Harvard," Olson said wryly of the reaction to his move.

'A Slippery Slope' State Senator Bill Perkins of Harlem served in the 1990s on the City Council, where he was a persistent critic of Mr. Giuliani.

My sons' high school was filled with all sorts of alumni of top schools who secretly wish they had gone to Slippery Rock State.

He fears a slippery slope to state meddling.

Critics call this "slow euthanasia".Some worry that legal euthanasia creates a slippery slope towards state-sponsored killing.

"The terrain was steep, wet, and slippery," the report states.

"Justice Kennedy seemed frustrated with the potential slippery slope that the state was falling down," said Professor Persily, who attended the argument and had filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case supporting neither party.

All that is certain is that the logic of the ticking bomb leads down a slippery slope where the state is licensed in the name of the greater good to trample on the hard-won rights of any one and therefore all of its citizens.Human rights are part of what it means to be civilised.