Sentence examples for slippery target from inspiring English sources

That is a slippery target.

Antidumping duties are a more slippery target: dumping does not sound like something a responsible politician should favour.

One can't help noticing that when Mr Obama mocks himself, he mocks himself for being super-human.Conservative satirists would love to toss some kryptonite at him, but he is a slippery target.

Science, he said, is 'a Religion that Worships Truth as its God.' Fighting talk -- and, unfortunately, deeply antithetical to the aims of science and the meaning of that slippery moving target called 'Truth.' In trying to set science apart from religion, Sloan Wilson has actually succeeded in confusing the two, inadvertently setting up science as a kind of religion.

Jeffrey Chester, director of the Centre for Digital Democracy in Washington, DC, warns of a slippery slope towards "behavioural targeting".

Morpholinos targeted to "slippery" mRNA sequences within protein coding regions can induce translational frameshifts.

Furthermore, his portrayals of black life in the first half of the 20th century and the fact that he played an integral part in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s make him a slippery, not to say risky, target for the right wing.

Clinton backed Barack Obama's executive order that temporarily shielded millions from deportation – currently held up in federal court – but has been frequently targeted over her slippery positions.

The law is a few steps behind cyberspace, even if it catches up, the targets will stay slippery.

This alarming erosion of democracy is a slippery slope that may end up targeting not just minorities and "outsiders" but any dissenting "insiders".

As opposed to simply being target practice, the enemies are slippery and realistic.