Sentence examples for slipping far from inspiring English sources

Slipping far down the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) rankings this week was a blow to national pride.

But as HTC has struggled in the smartphone business, slipping far behind Samsung, it has moved to sell down its holdings in its partner.

That has been Mrs. Bachmann's argument on the campaign trail in recent days as polls show her support ebbing further — not just slipping far behind Mitt Romney and Gov. Rick Perry of Texas in the polls, but also losing ground to some other candidates.

"Day by day, I was slipping far behind my classmates.

Her black, too loose elastic pants, part of a black outfit, had slipped far down.

Insularity has led it to slip far behind world developments in tactics".

After the Daewoo Group collapsed in 1999, Daewoo Motor slipped far behind Hyundai, Korea's dominant carmaker.

If Martin does not go No. 1? "I don't think I'll slip far," he said.

Ours is the biggest, as well as the oldest, soccer organisationin the world and insularity has led it to slip far behind world developmentin tactics".

I don't think that device should have any place at all in a parliamentary democracy: it slips far too easily into a sort of raucous populism.

With no recent attacks, the broader issue of terrorism, of which Guantanamo is a part, has slipped far down the public's list of worries, behind the domestic concerns of jobs, the economy, healthcare and education.