Instead, it is whether its slowdown will be a gradual descent a little bumpy at times but free from crisis or a sudden, dangerous lurch lower.
But the Pussy Riot case is being held up by Western diplomats and human rights groups as the embodiment of many things that are wrong with Russia, and the sudden, dangerous direction the country appears to have taken since Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency in May.
The drug carries the same cautions as its rivals, including that it should not be used by men who also take nitrates due to the potential for a sudden dangerous drop in blood pressure and the now famous warning to see a doctor if an erection lasts more than four hours.
BBC weather's Ian Fergusson: "Strong winds from the west can bring extensive amounts of sand and dust to the circuit at any time, but the most severe, sudden and dangerous sandstorms - known as Haboobs in Arabic - are caused by downdraft winds rushing forwards across the desert from approaching thunderstorms, kicking-up vast, towering walls of dust up to 100km (62 miles) wide.
Drivers can be fined up to 1m lire ($563) if "they stop the car, albeit briefly" near a prostitute or make "sudden and dangerous manoeuvres".
The first and best-known aphorism is, "Life is Short, Art long, Occasion sudden and dangerous, Experience deceitful, and Judgment difficult" (often shortened to the Latin tag, "Ars longa, vita brevis").
As we will see from what follows, minimal organizations, exemplified by the crew at Mann Gulch and found at a growing number of businesses, are susceptible to sudden and dangerous losses of meaning.
The first and best-known aphorism is "Life is Short, Art long, Occasion sudden and dangerous, Experience deceitful, and Judgment difficult" (often shortened to the Latin tag "Ars longa, vita brevis").
"The press can hold its magnifying glass up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous, flaming ant epidemic," he said, to roars of approval from the crowd.
Qias is young, maybe twenty-two, and his enthusiasm for whatever enterprise presents itself to him will serve him well in the new Afghanistan, just as Naquib's pragmatism and canny methods of dealing with the authorities have enabled him to prosper and to survive sudden and dangerous shifts in power.
Her patient suffered a sudden, potentially dangerous fall in oxygen saturation during anaesthesia and she was unfamiliar with the equipment: At the time I felt as if everybody's eyes were just on me, watching me, how I was doing, what I was doing, and I felt that I couldn't fail.
