It's not just a slippery slope that we're starting, it's a slippery slope we've been on for 23 years.
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It's the slippery ... So my dog ... They say the word slippery slope, I'm gonna push them down the slippery slope.
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It's a classic slippery slope, and continues to play out.
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Success, though, will turn that slippery slope into a landslide.
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This is the type of slippery slope we're getting into.
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But is this all of this potentially a slippery slope?
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The DOJ and FBI are on a very slippery slope.
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Luann de Lesseps knows sobriety can be a slippery slope.
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This can, however, be a slippery slope into insidious behavior.
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"It certainly creates a slippery slope," Murphy told The Verge.
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Malmstrom said the disputes system was on a slippery slope.
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As if we're going to go down this slippery slope.
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That's the first thing that comes up, or slippery slope.
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This is where the "slippery slope" of speech censorship leads.
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Lawyers I spoke to described leaking as a slippery slope.
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Yes, but: It's a slippery slope, per lobbyist Bruce Mehlman.
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For him, the slippery slope is more like a cliff.
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But that policy has been subject to a slippery slope.
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Parents believe in a slippery slope, which just isn't true.
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" He said the findings were "suggestive of a slippery slope.
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The slippery slope school of foreign policy has its limitations.
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And it's far from obvious that there's a slippery slope.
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So already you see the slippery slope of the conversation.
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Otherwise, I think you do get that the slippery slope.
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A slippery slope to politically segregated dining, this is not.
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"It's a slippery slope," she said of O'Rourke's position on guns.
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Because if we start not believing people it's a slippery slope.
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It could be a slippery slope, suggested leaders in Silicon Valley.
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The "slippery slope" argument is popular, although it's not always convincing.
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I think it's a slippery slope, for both producers and consumers.
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And internalizing the show's jealous environment can be a slippery slope.
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This recent influx of suspensions and removals is a slippery slope.
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But Facebook's opacity can leave big slippery-slope questions to linger.
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It is the implicit anxiety that fascism is a slippery slope.
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It's a slippery slope because the oversexualized thing, it's been done.
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While that might not bust your budget, it's a slippery slope.
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"Syria doesn't have to be a slippery slope," Mr. Tabler said.
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But upholding this travel ban also would create a slippery slope.
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Revoking press access for being rude is a very slippery slope.
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The minute we don't, it will become an extraordinarily slippery slope.
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"It's a slippery slope," Trump adds, alluding to gun control. pic.twitter.
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"We don't feel it's a slippery slope at all," says Yeske.
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And Reid is the man who started down that slippery slope.
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It's a slippery slope and the anti-gun left knows it.
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This is a dangerous slippery slope that needs to be addressed.
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What was once a slippery slope is becoming a perilous pit.
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" He added that embarking down that road was a "slippery slope.
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Some fear a slippery slope, arguing that anything can be expressive.
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It sets up a slippery slope to be dehumanized and invisible-ized.
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I argued with teachers about the moral slippery slope of gay marriage.
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She thought she could handle it, but it's a very slippery slope.
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Arya's works function as a trip down that slippery slope of nostalgia.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It&aposs a slippery slope when you start dehumanizing people.
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Missing work had been a slippery slope for me and my family.
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Without the slippery slope argument, conservatism loses much of its rhetorical punch.
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It is a very slippery slope when you dehumanizing people this way.
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It slows the game down and can make for a slippery slope.
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This is a newer one that's already moving down a slippery slope.
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Putting your code in the other companies' hands is a slippery slope.
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As is inevitable in such debates, the "slippery slope" argument was raised.
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Is it all a slippery slope to some kind of Kardashian hell?
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But as we see in Splice, this is quite a slippery slope.
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"Comfort, in their view, offered a slippery slope towards death," Curbed explains.
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When it comes to language, it can be a slippery slope though.
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Others said they worried that the removals would create a slippery slope.
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It feels like that might be a bit of a slippery slope?
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It's a slippery slope and I wouldn't recommend doing it with journalism.
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But as many of those people can tell you, it's a slippery slope.
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CD: It's a slippery slope of where these fabrics would otherwise end up.
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If they manufacture a technicality to let [Morey] go, that's a slippery slope.
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A slippery slope is also one of the strongest arguments against assisted dying.
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After that, says the source, it was a "slippery slope" for the star.
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German Bund yields are also on a slippery slope since the EU elections.
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What we learn from these places is that the slippery slope is real.
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"I think there's a really slippery slope between therapy and enhancement," Lee says.
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When I argued it was a slippery slope, I was accused of overreacting.
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Given that slippery slope, Tunsil might decide to move on with his life.
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" T-Mobile's chief executive, John Legere, derided the deal as a "slippery slope.
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"I worry it could be the start of a slippery slope," he said.
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"There's a real slippery slope when it comes to artistic expression," said Powell.
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It seems great initially for consumers but also seems like a slippery slope.
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Just like that, my journey down the slippery slope of expensive handbags began.
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" Former Justice Department officials echoed the concerns, one calling it a "slippery slope.
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What's to stop them careening down a slippery slope to—the horror—mimes?
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"It is a slippery slope, and gun rights advocates understand that," said Sen.
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But he reiterated his view that policing content online is a slippery slope.
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It's not a cliff one plunges from; it's a long, slippery slope into oblivion.
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It was just a slippery slope that I did not want to go down.
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A slippery slope to how despots wrest power, silence dissent, and oppress the masses.
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Kevin (Justin Hartley) is on a slippery slope with an addiction to pain pills.
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The entire point of Cook's letter is that this case is a slippery slope.
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Undue influence in Puerto Rico is a slippery slope that will not end well.
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The differences show how far down the assisted-suicide slippery slope we have gone.
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When discussing Red Flag Laws, the consensus is that they are a slippery slope.
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The notion that we would start down that slippery slope makes absolutely no sense.
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"It's a slippery slope," Aviran said, insisting that it was a path he resisted.
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Yet, it is a slippery slope when we disregard that which makes us unique.
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"This Starbucks development is a glaring slide down a slippery slope," the petition adds.
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There is no disproportionate effect on vulnerable populations, no evidence of a slippery slope.
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"This is where we go down a slippery slope," she said with a chuckle.
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I understand this worry; the slippery-slope problem here is real and worth watching.
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Banning semi-automatic weapons or high-capacity ammunition is a slippery slope they insist.
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From the far right, it's the "slippery slope" and a wacky obsession with bathrooms.
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We warned against this, urging the officials not to go down this slippery slope.
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We're on a slippery slope and Cohn had been putting salt on the ice.
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But easy cases get us in trouble; they lead us down a slippery slope.
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Do you see any danger of American anti-fascism heading down its own "slippery slope"?
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"I'm really interested in this slippery slope between what's shallow and what's deep," he said.
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We're being looked at as a sub-class of people—and it's a slippery slope.
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" Pinkett Smith agreed, saying porn addiction is "a slippery slope and I know that personally.
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But allowing expressive businesses to opt out would create a slippery slope, the state continues.
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But that pattern can be a slippery slope to unhealthy and addictive self-soothing habits.
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" Tech's growing comfort with cracking down on hate speech, Torba said, is a "slippery slope.
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Many readers suggested it was a slippery slope and wondered where to draw the line.
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We know from all too recent history that military engagement can be a slippery slope.
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Opponents of changing the Constitution argue that tampering with free expression is a slippery slope.
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This is of course a classic slippery slope argument, with enough flaws to seem implausible.
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In other words, going from constructive criticism to mean-spirited can be a slippery slope.
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But Garret says it's pretty likely that there really is a slippery slope situation happening.
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Pressed by reporters, Trump raised Washington and Jefferson, arguing there could be a slippery slope.
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And he warned those protectionist practices, like rising trade tariffs, are becoming a slippery slope.
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From a national security perspective, the idea of eliminating the system is a slippery slope.
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They say any form of privatization is a slippery slope that won't improve the parks.
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But so is preventing the government agency from starting down a dangerous and slippery slope.
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"He felt he was just borrowing, but that is a slippery slope," Mr. Heitczman said.
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It is a slippery slope and a terrifying step towards a mass expulsion of Muslims.
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Given that level of power, it's hard to see how the slippery-slope argument applies.
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There is a slippery slope between this kind of intelligence assessment and acts of repression.
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And thus the slippery slope was oiled by the best intentions, and down everyone slid.
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Unlike Venezuela, the United States still has time to reverse the slippery slope to authoritarianism.
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Some conservatives worry it is a step on a slippery slope toward undoing priestly celibacy.
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Mr. Brown warned in his veto message that such legislation would be a slippery slope.
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It's a slippery slope from there to playing Hacky Sack shirtless at a farmer's market.
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But once the bad chick with the bob becomes familiar, you hit a slippery slope.
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Taylor flinches a little at the thought, but opts to stay on the slippery slope.
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More importantly, it would keep us off the slippery slope that leads to further censorship.
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Implementing social media into a campaign strategy is essential, although admittedly, it's a slippery slope.
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And that denial is a slippery slope, at the bottom of which lie tyranny and misery.
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Critics warn that tweaking the genetic code this way could eventually lead to a slippery slope.
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The worry instead should be over another norm attacked, and the slippery slope that comes after.
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The association apparently never considered that it was venturing on the slippery slope of redacting history.
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But critics argue that regulating a woman's reasons for getting an abortion is a slippery slope.
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But it's a slippery slope from there to targeting peaceful protests, activists, and basically anyone littering.
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But as I'm saying these words, you can see right away this is a slippery slope.
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We enter into a slippery slope when we start to limit speech that makes us uncomfortable.
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The change is a "slippery slope," said Susan Benesch, a member of Twitter's Trust & Safety Council.
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This may be a minority opinion, but imposing liability for another's suicide is a slippery slope.
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While the LIO building deal on its own may be small, it represents a slippery slope.
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" Stuart said the university's sanctions based on a student's social media posts start a "slippery slope.
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Perhaps my work is a gob of goo on the slippery slope towards weaponized image fabrication.
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Flip these obligations around and we find ourselves on the edge of an extremely slippery slope.
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The slippery slope here is steep, and California is willfully hurtling down it at breakneck speed.
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It is a dangerous and slippery slope, and movement on it occurs in only one direction.
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As Vitter said, there is a fear of a "slippery slope " that impartiality will be questioned.
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The thing about that line of thinking is that it's a slippery slope coated with grease.
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Israel has always been just a bit farther down this slippery slope than the United States.
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Some worry that legislating deception is a slippery slope, because where do you draw the line?
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That's a constraint on internet freedom that makes sense, and it hasn't proved a slippery slope.
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Of course, like so many other things, it feels like a bit of a slippery slope.
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It feels like I'm heading down a slippery slope toward a condition I thought I'd escaped.
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"If I start to allow sugars into my life, there is a slippery slope," he says.
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As Judge William Pryor wrote in a concurring opinion, criminalizing medical advice is a slippery slope.
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The court's demand could turn into a slippery slope, worried American University law professor Stephen Vladeck.
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But extending those checks to political speech more broadly would be a slippery slope, he argued.
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But damage to Obamacare isn't the same thing as a slippery slope toward the program's demise.
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Much like end dates, I find that excuses and exceptions to a rule are a slippery slope.
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But it can also be a slippery slope that leads you to take your partner for granted.
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"It's a slippery slope to giving this character a life and presence on the internet," said Orchier.
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Knowing I could give up makeup made me think that trying Botox wasn't necessarily a slippery slope.
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Is this a slippery slope toward a global minimum wage or some other form of burdensome regulation?
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Google, GoDaddy, OKCupid, and Spotify's reasonable choices are, potentially, the top edge of a very slippery slope.
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There is a slippery slope from police use of armed robots to domestic use of armed drones.
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This is a slippery slope toward resenting them completely, which will only make you feel more alone.
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"It's a slippery slope," said Deborah Hersman, president and chief executive officer for the National Safety Council.
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"Important warning also for European businesses not to go down same slippery slope," Klimkin wrote on Twitter.
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America has taken steps like this before, and did not slide down any slippery slope to autarky.
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"From now on, it's a very slippery slope and razor-thin margin moving forward," he told Reuters.
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The state of play: The investor's argument is that I dove head-first down a slippery slope.
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But removing judges because the public doesn't like their decisions sends us all down a slippery slope.
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In 2013, the Senate Democrats, then in the majority, dragged the Senate out onto a slippery slope.
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"My fear is that you'll start us on the slippery slope of seeing market collapse," Kreidler said.
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Some may argue that deciding what counts as toxic video content is a slippery slope toward censorship.
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Some may argue that deciding what counts as toxic video content is a slippery slope toward censorship.
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Apple thinks that providing that access sends the company and its privacy standards down a slippery slope.
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" He then underlines the seriousness of the point: "People don't realize what a slippery slope it is.
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Greed can be a slippery slope, especially when that slope is well-lubricated with fake olive oil.
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The Obama administration has argued that this is a slippery slope that could harm our national interests.
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That may seem appealing now, given the current president's impulsive nature, but it is a treacherously slippery slope.
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In curatorial terms, using "may" to argue a link is speculative and marks a slippery slope towards invention.
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This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. It's a slippery slope, directly tying enjoying live music to violence.
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Here it is, paraphrased (neither would go on the record): Yes, there is a possible slippery slope here.
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It's a slippery slope that ends with a trip to McDonald's in the early hours of Saturday morning.
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Giving your data to people who have a financial stake in that data is a potential slippery slope.
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While access to these videos can be a good thing, Burke also points out the potential slippery slope.
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Lastly, consider the "slippery slope" presented by local jurisdictions deciding which federal laws they will and won't enforce.
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And I mean, look, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi already said she wants it to be a slippery slope.
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"You are going down a slippery slope, raking another candidate over the coals" in the way Harris did.
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Dissenters, including John Roberts himself, miss the point when they niggle over legalistic, slippery-slope abstractions, Cole explains.
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McConnell warned last week that imposing tariffs create a "slippery slope" that could lead to a trade war.
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The Democrats used a parliamentary gimmick and set the Senate on the slippery slope it now struggles with.
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The court can avoid sliding down a slippery slope by issuing an opinion tied tightly to the facts.
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This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. It's a slippery slope, directly tying enjoying live music to violence.
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Well that person did that, not going to let that person vote,' you're running down a slippery slope.
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Mr. Waris said that restricting an app like TikTok over content it couldn't control was a slippery slope.
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"It's a slippery slope," said Thomas R. Scozzafava, the supervisor of the town of Moriah in Essex County.
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"It's a slippery slope," said Ms. Brantner, whose own party's recent success builds on years in local politics.
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He warned that if hospitals paid the ransoms, it could lead to a slippery slope of other attacks.
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Former U.S. Treasury secretary and Harvard economist Lawrence Summers claims the proposal would lead down a slippery slope.
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These restrictions did not become a slippery slope and lead to an outright ban of all cold medications.
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"We are now all looking for things that could be some kind of slippery slope," Ms. Berman said.
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This is a slippery slope that would set an example for people to exploit historical hardship of ancestors.
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" He noted, critics will evoke, "the slippery slope argument of this being one step closer to human cloning.
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The decision prompted worries among genealogists of a "slippery slope" by allowing law enforcement to investigate less serious crimes.
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And evidence from places that have allowed assisted dying suggests that there is no slippery slope towards widespread euthanasia.
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But he warned that economic deterioration and credit rating declines "can occur rapidly, like sliding down a slippery slope".
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Matt Gaetz (R-FL) made a slippery slope argument against it in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
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A tax to fund the salaries of Christian teachers would put America on a dangerously slippery slope, he wrote.
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It's a slippery slope to literally anything being granted personhood status, so long as someone believes it has value.
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He did not mention other potential addictions that members of the Vape Nation might slippery slope their way into.
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Ms Wojcicki is conscious of the slippery slope platforms are on, and fears being criticised for censorship and bias.
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He warned however, that a broad U.S. claim to national security would put global trade on a slippery slope.
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" Decherney says that while research shows that MRT should be safe for humans, he understands "the slippery slope argument.
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So we are now on this slippery slope, Laura, where they&aposre controlling the Infowars website and so on.
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Religious freedom expert Gregory Lipper believes that a ruling in favor of the church could produce a slippery slope.
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The risk is, once you've started, you're on a slippery slope and you don't know if you can stop.
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And why, according to the poorly rendered background, does Slippery Slope apparently take place on an original Game Boy?
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The slippery slope just got steeper War, as any person in uniform will tell you, is an unpredictable beast.
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Brain scans of the participants confirmed that lying can be a slippery slope: people did lie more over time.
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"Exposure to slippery-slope conditions more than doubled the rates of unethical behavior in our studies," the authors concluded.
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Rules restricting athletes make all of that possible; getting rid of them could lead to a very slippery slope.
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I dont want mandatory vasectomies because I dont believe we should legislate peoples bodies, its a dangerous slippery slope.
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"Yes, even for terrible people, because once you start chipping away … you're running down a slippery slope," Sanders said.
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The commodity-linked currency has been on a slippery slope for much of this year, boosting Australian exporters' revenues.
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Hogan's lawyers say we're in danger of seeing a different kind of slippery slope if Gawker has its way.
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Without addressing these three diseases of our society, we will continue down the slippery slope of anarchy and chaos.
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"I believe we're going down a slippery slope here," Duncan said on Wednesday at a hearing on the proposal.
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Or does this push us further down the slippery slope of alternative facts on which we are currently sliding?
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As Gold has discovered, mental health is a slippery slope, and she is still trying to find her footing.
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We're all on a slippery slope from rational to insane, and the companies who make this stuff know it.
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They argue that ceding ground on abortion could be a slippery slope and that it isn't worth the cost.
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Worse, restrictions could be the beginning of a slippery slope of government intrusion into other areas of our lives.
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The EFF said that the trend presents a slippery slope for domain registrars, which operate hosting services for websites.
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"It's always a very slippery slope how much you let the original building influence your designs," Mr. Mergenthaler said.
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Asking anti-abortion politicians to account for their own reproductive health choices with candor may be a slippery slope.
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Given that the information gathered and the access provided emanate from Times employment, how is that slippery slope negotiated?
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But even after two decades, the sensation of being on the edge of a slippery slope is ever-present.
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In all, it's one big slippery slope that leads to danger and that is the biggest problem, physical harm.
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But what&aposs happening now is quickly sliding down a slippery slope toward harassment, denial of service and abusive behavior.
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One banker reckoned the proposal was a "slippery slope" that would force banks to become unlikely arbiters of moral acceptability.
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Rather than start down a slippery slope of painkiller dependency, he turns to cannabis supplements and hash oil for relief.
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It's a slippery slope between who we — content consumers — want our problematic faves to be, and who they actually are.
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And don&apost put us on the slippery-slope to say we are going to start banning other conservative voices.
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He blasted the news media and intelligence operatives he said could lead the country down a "slippery slope" to dictatorship.
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Take Trump's attempt to make a slippery slope argument about the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville.
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"Start using again and it's a slippery slope right back to rock bottom," a separate insider said about Lovato's relapse.
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Obama spent much of the announcement addressing concerns that he was heading down a slippery slope of restricting Americans' freedoms.
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Some echoed Apple's slippery slope argument that opening up one iPhone would lead to a domino effect from governments worldwide.
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"It's a very slippery slope to violate people's rights," said Angie Junck, Supervising Attorney at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center.
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If she's not, the mention of something like canine arthritis could be a slippery slope into a discussion about euthanasia.
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Contrary to the NRA's current narrative, the path to sensible gun reform isn't a slippery slope, it's simply uncharted terrain.
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In terms of the basic process of arbitrating a consensual version of reality, this was an exceedingly hazardous slippery slope.
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Do you have a nagging feeling that President Trump is putting the United States on a slippery slope to war?
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But not all security breaches are crimes, and we start tumbling down a slippery slope if we treat them otherwise.
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If McConnell lowers it for the Supreme Court, many are concerned it's a slippery slope to lowering the threshold for legislation.
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If Trump chooses to decertify the deal, "We are on the very slippery slope that leads to JCPOA collapse," says Nephew.
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A company using what seems like a fun smartphone game to get you to walk more might be a slippery slope.
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And others argue that reparations are a slippery slope, opening the door to other minority groups demanding redress for historical injustices.
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The pound held around $1.2507, staying on a slippery slope since mid-March largely led by political uncertainty in the country.
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Opponents say ordaining women to the deaconate would signal the start of a slippery slope toward ordaining women to the priesthood.
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We lead you down to that slippery slope to the dessert, and after you eat dessert, you just want to shower.
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As for credit cards, Weston advises students to aim to keep charges to a minimum, even though it's a slippery slope.
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Yet the "slippery slope" argument need not hold: Canada still has smaller notes, long after it binned the C$1,000 bill.
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The pound held around $1.2502, staying on a slippery slope since mid-March as fears of a hard Brexit have gathered.
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Instead of being a call to greatness beckoning the new Hong Kong, the scheme places Hong Kong on a slippery slope.
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Critics of smart guns often point to the New Jersey Childproof Handgun Law, as a slippery slope of regulation-turned-ban.
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Apple has said that creating a backdoor for the FBI would put iPhone owners on a slippery slope of security intrusions.
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I got pretty upset at first, but then I realized I was taking Rob Schneider seriously, and that's a slippery slope.
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But Ms. Kennedy was also said to be aware that pushing him out could put the academy on a slippery slope.
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The research is highly at odds with the "gateway theory" that vaping is a slippery slope to using other tobacco products.
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"If we start down this slippery slope, where are we going to end, if we dissolve attorney-client privilege?" he asked.
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Failure to do so means that the slippery slope of soft authoritarianism in former communist Europe gets steeper and more dangerous.
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The court's reluctance to review a proffered national security rationale at all puts our entire democracy on a dangerous slippery slope.
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Ingrid is an addict, and her slide down a slippery slope seems consciously modeled on films about other kinds of addictions.
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And once you go down the slippery slope of limiting representation to citizens, you have to ask: Where is the line?
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"The feeling is that Israel is going into what I would call a slippery slope of anti-democratic law," said Mendel.
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"We do believe that this is a very slippery slope," said Janice Bellucci, the founder and executive director of the group.
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But Ms. Kennedy was also said to be aware that pushing him out could put the academy on a slippery slope.
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"We must regain control of budget discussions which have led Italy down a slippery slope in the last year," he said.
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I have watched that slippery slope to overdose up close and personal and I knew that I wanted off the slide.
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"A lot of Republicans and some Democrats now are afraid to do anything, to go down that slippery slope," he said.
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The people resisting regulation say that any new legislation is a slippery slope for an aggressive agenda to massively restrict guns.
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Larkin led the complaints that GEDmatch was sliding down a "slippery slope" after it allowed the investigation of the Utah assault.
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Many analysts on the way up had warned the president that taking credit is a slippery slope when markets turn lower.
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Some have even suggested that research itself may be too risky, because it leads down the slippery slope of taking action.
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In doing so, Trump is aping a longtime tactic of the NRA -- casting the entire gun debate as a slippery slope.
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The Ethicist As a gun owner who abhors the ''slippery slope'' philosophy of the N.R.A., every new mass shooting sickens me.
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But cheering some sucker punches and jeering others is a bobsled down a slippery slope, especially because of the potential consequences.
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"We are approaching a slippery slope that will destroy the very unique aspect of this institution called the US Senate," he said.
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"We are approaching a slippery slope that will destroy the very unique aspect of this institution called the US Senate," said Sen.
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These Trump opinions prove how dangerous this line of irrational thinking can be and also how it is a slippery slope indeed.
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Nationalists denounce it as a slippery slope to partition, and a recipe for intensified battles between Sunnis and Shias grappling over boundaries.
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"Technology basically puts people on this slippery slope," Hertlein, who's also an associate professor of psychology at the University of Nevada, said.
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There's also the legal precedent—compelling device manufacturers to write custom software to facilitate investigations is a slippery slope towards encryption backdoors.
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Apple has resisted the government's request because the company thought it would set a precedent and it would become a slippery slope.
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They claim that Labor, which broadly supports offshore detention, is marching down a slippery slope and will end up admitting untold hordes.
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A quota system would prevent some people — there's no way in advance to tell how many — from sliding down that slippery slope.
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He told CNN that compelling a defendant to divulge a passcode in their head was a "slippery slope" in the legal arena.
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The "Slippery Slope" review paper, however, describes Myanmar as a near-rerun of the Sri Lanka crisis, albeit with very different circumstances.
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Internet companies say it will endanger their business models by sending them down a slippery slope to being liable to user content.
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It's not only the monument review that has been a slippery slope between Zinke and the movement to sell off public lands.
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On the other hand, it's a slippery slope that says nothing about respecting another person's space and can quickly turn uber creepy.
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Rather, he said, some argue that life in the South really wasn't that bad, a stance that can be a slippery slope.
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Republican committee members argued that redefining the star on the flag was a slippery slope to remove other homages to the Confederacy.
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They also worry that it may put the chamber on a slippery slope to getting rid of the filibuster for legislation, too.
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A reporter told Politico the "press corps' fear is it's a slippery slope" and worry press access will continue to get worse.
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Privacy advocates and tech companies say such access would cost people their personal information and lead to a slippery slope of surveillance.
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It's a slippery slope to be sure, with the number of apps and the enterprising attempts to maliciously exploit them both growing.
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Jerry Brown questioned its constitutionality and said the measure "sets a 'slippery slope' precedent" for what individuals states could require of candidates.
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They say the proposals for expanded background checks are unenforceable and represent a slippery slope toward something more sinister, like gun registration.
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Mr. Comey paints a picture of a slippery slope where one can easily slide from strength and integrity to complicity or silence.
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"It's just this endless slippery slope of demands," said Bruce Klingner, a Korean and Japanese specialist at the Heritage Foundation in Washington.
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Senator Ted Cruz of Texas has described the Affordable Care Act as part of a slippery slope to government-run health care.
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"This executive order was designed to counter a slippery slope where freedom of speech and protests turn into anti-Semitism," he said.
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The City of Santa Clara added a possession provision to its version that Cody said is a "slippery slope" to penalizing youth.
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"We believe that is a slippery slope to dismantling the V.A." To be sure, the opposition from veterans groups was not unanimous.
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"We are on a very dangerous slippery slope when people will be able to decide what can be laughed at," he said.
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Social experiments are fraught with hazards, especially in political matters, where the center of gravity tends to lie on a slippery slope.
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Vitter said she didn't think she should comment on which cases she agreed with for fear of starting down a slippery slope.
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Is the SWF a way to put welfare state liberals on the slippery slope to collective ownership of the means of production?
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The move has spawned thousands of takes about whether deplatforming Jones was the right move or a slippery slope toward more censorship.
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Nor, it should be emphasized, did the abolition of the $1,000 put us on any kind of slippery slope to monetary perdition.
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As you'll see in the trailer, The Circle's drive towards omniscience veers down a slippery slope — with star employee Mae front and center.
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As any student of democracy knows, attempts to repress freedoms can set in motion a slippery slope that puts democracies at serious risk.
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That might become the new rule for opioids, but Gottlieb made clear that the industry doesn't need to worry about a slippery slope.
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He expects Ofwat's interventions to end badly, describing its approach as "regulatory corporatism" that may lead down a slippery slope towards state control.
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"We cannot afford to put our nation on the slippery slope towards socialized medicine," the group's president, Adam Brandon, said at the time.
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The slippery slope worries are "fanciful", their lawyers write, and the court should ignore the "fairy-tale monsters" imagined by MNN's legal team.
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Moreover, even in those jurisdictions where only assisted dying has been legalised, rather than full euthanasia, we see evidence of the slippery slope.
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He also argued the law could create a slippery slope that might lead to more extreme candidate disclosures like mental and physical information.
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Industry pundits are not the only ones now wondering whether VR is about to follow 3D down the same slippery slope to irrelevance.
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"Today's Executive Order stopped short of rampant discrimination but don't be fooled this begins a slippery slope of a #LicenseToDiscriminate," she tweeted Thursday.
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When you remove that, you start to slide even further down the slippery slope that Harry Reid started us all on in 2013.
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Cillizza: Trump made an argument that getting rid of a Robert E. Lee statue starts us down a slippery slope of historical revisionism.
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Moments like these are often a slippery slope; not everyone agrees on what crosses the line in terms of racial insensitivity — or worse.
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Some disability advocates, though by no means all, fear a slippery slope: that if allowed, PAD would be inappropriately used against disabled patients.
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President Trump defended Confederate statues in a series of tweets last week and questioned whether their removal could lead to a slippery slope.
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Because qualifying food by the potential threat it poses is a slippery slope towards catastrophizing everything, truly everything, that makes life worth living.
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The slippery slope dominated the oral argument on the legality of the administration's travel ban before the Supreme Court in Trump v. Hawaii.
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The slippery slope of robotics and automation is a siren call, fraught with implications of who will be serving who in coming years.
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Indeed, a significant part of the conservative theory of politics was that the slippery slope toward communism began with New Deal-style liberalism.
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Instead, when talking to reporters, he described a "slippery slope" leading from the harassment of Republicans at restaurants to, I guess, racist murder.
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I use an app to track calories and exercise, and I know that it's always a slippery slope until I'm obsessing over it.
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The use and abuse of government power is a slippery slope; the more power the government obtains, the more it tries to grab.
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The arguments: Conservatives warned the change would set the Roman Catholic Church on a slippery slope toward lifting priestly celibacy and weakening traditions.
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Others, however, might argue that allowing toys that quite literally objectify female body parts (like the Fleshlight, for example) is a slippery slope.
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" Ted Cruz of Texas In February, Cruz told The New York Times, "I am very worried about the slippery slope that could occur.
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We are warned of a slippery slope, implying that legalization of assisted suicide would eventually lead to eugenic sterilization reminiscent of Nazi Germany.
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When Jamie muses about growing rice, the episode doesn't suggest it's a slippery slope to contribute to the plantation — it's just his cleverness.
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You can tell him that not every incremental tightening of standards is a slippery slope, that no one wants to confiscate his guns.
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It's a very slippery slope: We're saying that a person with a political affiliation deserves to die, regardless of whether they're doing anything.
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I think we have to be more vigilant about what's coming around the corner so that we don't tumble down this slippery slope.
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Silencing leftist academics is a dangerous game, and a slippery slope—and ironically, defending speech on campus is a favorite right-wing talking point.
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While her strategy does differ from President Trump's aggressive and meme-filled Twitter use, Grygiel argues the gatekeeping can quickly become a slippery slope.
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But experts worry student social media mining, even with the best intentions, is a slippery slope to treating students the way we treat suspects.
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"Changing the law in order to shut down a media organisation for political reasons is a slippery slope," association executive secretary Glenys Sugarman said.
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This slippery slope may be why more bars and restaurants are adding low-alcohol by volume (ABV) cocktails, aka "session cocktails," to their menus.
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"Booking vacations using travel loans is a slippery slope," explains Rebecca Walser, personal finance and retirement advisor and author of Wealth Unbroken, told Refinery29.
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Replacing portions of public transportation with Uber and Lyft is a slippery slope, not only because of how it will affect public sector jobs.
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Norms like the special place of the judiciary in society are not destroyed overnight; rather, the displacement of a norm is a slippery slope.
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This situation is not only indicative of being on a steep, slippery slope, but that we are sliding down this slope at breakneck speed.
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But thanks to these Texas protesters, it's pretty hard to turn a blind eye to just how far that slippery slope may take us.
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Speaking to CNBC's "Fast Money Halftime Report" at The Sports Business Summit, Leonsis says creating a rule to address this is a slippery slope.
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Body monitoring, however, does have its place in the grander scheme of sexology, in particular when it comes to the slippery slope of fertility.
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And while an actor's choice to wear a specific designer can send a specific message, scrutinizing what they didn't wear is a slippery slope.
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If the court upholds this travel ban, it may keep us off of a small slippery slope and put us on a bigger one.
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Critics of the proposed research say it is effectively genetically modifying human embryos and represents a "slippery slope" towards a future of designer babies.
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And while it's easy to make this a Hollywood problem, there's also a slippery slope when it comes to how we reflect on ourselves.
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It's a first step towards a broader policy, though some critics regard this move as a slippery slope toward privatization of US public education.
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And once people start to consider the possibilities, it's a slippery slope to the place where they find themselves doing what they deemed impossible.
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People worry that we are sliding down a slippery slope to neo-puritanism, or in the throes of a witch hunt for sexual impropriety.
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It's a slippery slope and some emoji critics feel that we have already gone too far in the direction of adding images to Unicode.
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Steve Rosenthal, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center who testified at the hearing, said the slippery slope arguments Republicans employed are absurd.
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The mentality that the game fosters, and the varied, layered approach to level design made this descent into completion-madness a slippery slope indeed.
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" Pressed by a reporter on how his talking point about "a slippery slope" mimics the NRA's preferred language on gun control, he added, "No.
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He used the slippery slope of if they add cosmetic unlocks there would be pink Darth Vaders running around and that would break canon.
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But even "modest" benefit cuts are a slippery slope: today, higher income earners; tomorrow, middle-income working Americans who truly can't afford benefit cuts.
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Those who oppose more controls on private gun ownership say that any limits would be a "slippery slope" to taking away all weapons. Why?
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He also argued the law could set off a slippery slope that could lead to more extreme candidate disclosures like mental and physical information.
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Three decades later, scientists and politicians still debate whether using "soft" drugs necessarily leads a person down a slippery slope to the harder stuff.
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Since credit cards offer a line of credit instead of a fixed amount of money upfront, using them can also become a slippery slope.
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I'm all for gun rights and I get the slippery slope argument, but some of the stuff they go hard to protect gets silly.
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When we were dealing with the ISIS stuff, there was the EFF, arguing for, if you take down ISIS content, it's a slippery slope.
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While I admire the efforts in Congress to claw back authority over Section 232, for example, I fear that there's a slippery slope here.
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" He went on: "Abuses and slippery-slope fears could be contained by regulations that circumscribe how the government can use footage obtained from security cameras.
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Democrats say that if they were to give in on the issue, it would be a slippery slope to losing ground in their other fights.
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This slippery slope of you digging your heels in and getting into a trade war, we now don&apost -- we don&apost have any friends.
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Every addict who fools themselves into thinking they can 'use responsibly' is merely back on the slippery slope to rock bottom, which they'll hit eventually.
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In the few interviews he's done about his work (which are generally delightful), he's continually parodied homophobic "slippery slope" arguments and general conservative moral panic.
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Today's move from YouTube is likely to generate a fresh round of outrage, along with warnings that we are on the slippery slope toward totalitarianism.
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Militarily imposing a safe zone, then, would ultimately be a colossal escalation, taking the US further down an already very slippery slope of military intervention.
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A slippery slope awaits: judges hunting for evidence of an illicit presidential motive could nose through "statements from a previous campaign" or even "from college".
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"We have been very clear that it shouldn't be seen as a slippery slope," Chamberlain said, adding that there would be a clear roadmap provided.
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One source intimately involved in organizing the festival tells us it's a slippery slope for them to start inquiring whether a pregnant woman can perform.
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Contrary to the claims of what some gun rights proponents have suggested, this hasn't been the first step in some slippery slope to mass confiscation.
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His previous answer was the slippery-slope argument that if we deny people service based on sexual orientation, then next up is divorced individuals, etc.
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Thursday's earnings report added "to the sense that Macy's is on a slippery slope," Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData Retail, said in an email.
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"We share the Judge's concern that misuse of the All Writs Act would start us down a slippery slope that threatens everyone's safety and privacy."
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Something about this just doesn't feel right to me and I fear there will be a slippery slope of diminished access as time goes on.
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Clamping down on demonstrations, rallies, sit-ins, marches and protests in the way that Ohio University's policy outlines pushes us toward a very slippery slope.
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And granting marijuana businesses access to banks represents a slippery slope as some states, like Oregon, are already looking at legalizing drugs other than marijuana.
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The slippery slope and presidential distraction claims in Vance seem especially weak, as the Manhattan prosecutor seeks records to look into plausible accounts of wrongdoing.
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And if I start commenting on, 'I agree with this case, or don't agree with this case,' I think we get into a slippery slope.
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"That was his opinion about the slippery slope of obstruction of justice charges against a president who wants to terminate a political appointee," Graham said.
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Now I'm thinking that kindness trumps telling the truth, even for the most serious matters, but I don't know if I'm on a slippery slope.
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The video game makers see that demand as a slippery slope and counter that they have made bonus offers that the union will not consider.
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We share the Judge's concern that misuse of the All Writs Act would start us down a slippery slope that threatens everyone's safety and privacy.
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Social media companies, who have been widely accused of having an anti-conservative bias, create a slippery slope when they become the arbiters of content.
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The president first told reporters he had an "appetite" for background checks before later warning such legislation could be a "slippery slope" to confiscating firearms.
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So we talked about the slippery slope of how irresistible it would be for a grieving widow to have some semblance of her husband around.
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Medical ethicists have already warned that this puts the human race on the slippery slope to a "Gattaca"-like existence, in which biology is destiny.
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And what he's doing — it's a slippery slope toward a country that I don't recognize and a country that I don't want to live in.
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He shares their passions and enthusiasms at a moment when the public dialogue has branded them childish or problematic or a slippery slope to Trumpism.
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The NDA/BJP government is taking India down the slippery slope of religious majoritarianism, and when you sow the wind you only reap the whirlwind.
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Some lawmakers who opposed the measure felt it was part of a slippery slope leading to more efforts to erase portions of the state's history.
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Oil stayed on a slippery slope on rising expectations that major producers may reverse some of the production cuts they have maintained for 17 months.
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And so I think it potentially could be a slippery slope into an internet that is just a different experience from what we've had. Yep.
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"We're on a very, very slippery slope toward Gilead," Warren Littlefield, an executive producer of the Hulu show, told CNN's "Reliable Sources" host Brian Stelter Sunday.
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Telling little fibs leads down a slippery slope to bigger lies — and our brains adapt to escalating dishonesty, which makes deceit easier, a new study shows.
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However, the way to prevent a slippery slope of unintended results is through robust legislation, such as I put forward in the Canadian House of Commons.
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Others are worried about societal effects — for example, that approving gene-editing for disability will create a slippery slope leading to "designer babies" and eugenics programs.
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Retailers that have struggled with these challenges, as well as the ebb and flow of brand popularity, often find themselves on a slippery slope to bankruptcy.
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I still don't know if I'm going to get my lips done, as I'm worried about falling down a slippery slope I can't finance quite yet.
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Timothy D. Cook, Apple's chief executive, published a strongly worded letter opposing the order and argued that unlocking one iPhone could lead to a slippery slope.
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"We have constant access to new information and this is alluring, intriguing and exciting, but without setting limits for yourself, it's a slippery slope," she said.
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Like most "political correctness run amok" commentary, it's frustratingly glib, suggesting that any attempt to curb racism is a slippery slope that leads to dangerous places.
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However, any incentive to loosen the purse strings is also a slippery slope, particularly as the pain from the downturn — now a decade behind us — subsides.
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For ad-supported companies, it's a slippery slope from a search engine to a browser to laying down fiber-optic cable to monetize the developing world.
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This third category, failure to carry out responsibilities – raised concerns in the industry and left many questioning whether it might be a slippery slope for CCOs.
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Back then I'd still had it in me to worry over whether or not this emotional eating was normal, or the top of a slippery slope.
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I'm a loud and proud feminist and, in this case, I beg my sisters -- just grab a shawl and let's not go down this slippery slope.
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He went on to make a slippery slope argument -- equating Confederate general Robert E. Lee with presidents like Washington and Thomas Jefferson, who were slave owners.
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Gun owners believe owning a gun is a fundamental freedom that, if curtailed, is a slippery slope to losing that right (and others with it) entirely.
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Chained CPI hasn't yet been part of that discussion, but if it goes through unchecked, the slippery slope to impoverishing seniors will get coated in grease.
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The 'slippery slope' of getting teens to exercise Particularly among girls, Walsh said, there is a large dropoff in daily physical activity once they enter adolescence.
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They view the request as a slippery slope that could lead to future requests to decrypt data, or even requests from foreign governments to unlock phones.
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" The next day the jokes began, with Shipchandler tweeting a link with the caption "this issue was quite literally a slippery slope" with the hashtag "lawyerhumor.
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Those activists say an FBI win would set off a slippery slope of intrusive government data requests that would most directly affect minorities and political activists.
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But the tech community and privacy advocates warn that giving judges the power to authorize warrants for multiple, or even undetermined, jurisdictions is a slippery slope.
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If we give that up, I think we are on a slippery slope to sacrificing any sort of access to the president and his senior staff.
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He will learn that he has debased himself without reward, and now that he's reached the bottom of that slippery slope, there's no climbing back up.
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"Fasting can be a slippery slope to unhealthy habits and a screwy relationship with food," Jessica Cording, a registered dietitian, wrote for Shape magazine in August.
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The finding, the researchers said, provides evidence for the "slippery slope" sometimes described by wayward politicians, corrupt financiers, unfaithful spouses and others in explaining their misconduct.
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But when people start to rule out romantic prospects or evaluate their friendships based on star signs, I feel like that can be a slippery slope.
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Also, the clarification asked game officials, in a split-second, to determine whether a helmet-first hit was intentional or inadvertent, a slippery slope generally avoided.
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Gallego, a Marine combat veteran, warned that the policy change, which officials say will affect 85033 to 25 people annually, could lead to a slippery slope.
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And second, it's a slippery slope, because if we say the president and the vice president aren't under investigation, what's the principled basis for — for stopping?
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Democrats worry about Mr. Trump's attempt to shift the debate to Confederate monuments and a slippery slope argument toward tearing down memorials to slaveholding founding fathers.
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"The challenge was the slippery slope argument," said Josh Clause, a Mohawk member of the Six Nations Reserve whose Washington law firm represents Native American clients.
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Clerks argued that this change could lead down a slippery slope and cause employers or unions to start forcing people to prove for whom they voted.
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It was a slippery slope to Republicans, under Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, using the nuclear option to confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court last year.
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In his argument, Jaffer warned of a slippery slope if the court were to find that Trump could block certain users while occupying the White House.
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But the strategy — claiming that any attempt to strengthen the social safety net or limit inequality will put us on a slippery slope to totalitarianism — endures.
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There is far too little understanding about the slippery slope from the Nazi dehumanization of the Jews in 1933 to the Final Solution nine years later.
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They see his proposals to expand the powers of the presidency as a path to greater security rather than a slippery slope toward one-man rule.
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Republican senators criticized the bill as "a slippery slope of compromising the Second Amendment" — and all but one, then-senator Mark Kirk of Illinois, voted against it.
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Using an ideological standard to approve adoptive parents is a slippery slope, akin to what faith-based agencies have done by excluding same-sex couples from adopting.
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Jerry Brown vetoed a bill in 2017, when he said the measure sets a "slippery slope" of what individual states could require of candidates in the future.
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But these glamorized depictions of make-up sex often leave out that using sex as a tool to manipulate a partner can be a dangerous, slippery slope.
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Among other issues the use of this data raises is possible misuse; it's not hard to imagine a slippery slope from tracking undocumented immigrants to registered citizens.
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At the time, players feared a slippery slope of multiple companies leaving Steam, resulting in the need to maintain friends lists across a wide range of platforms.
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That's a very big deal and a slippery slope to the Senate becoming a majority-rule body -- like the House -- on all matters that come before it.
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Chairman John Tinpe told The Washington Post that it's a slippery slope to comment on a licensee's character and could lead to a rush of similar protests.
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In addition, if we start down the slippery slope of including backdoors in our computing devices, then sophisticated terrorists and other criminals will pursue alternative security solutions.
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"Any delay would be a slippery slope because President-Elect Trump's life is only going to get more complicated and unpredictable as time goes by," they wrote.
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"Reality TV is a slippery slope," said Randal Hayworth, a Beverly Hills-based plastic surgeon who was hired to be one of the show's in-house surgeons.
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Worrying too much about calories can be a slippery slope: "I think calorie-counting could get in the way of people realizing what satisfies them," she says.
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In a column posted online before the 2016 statehouse debate, he called marijuana "a dangerous drug" and said any form of legalization could be a slippery slope.
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Joanna Cawley, executive director of Carnegie Hill Neighbors, one of the neighborhood associations behind the suit, was explicit about where she thought that slippery slope could lead.
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Doing so would also create a slippery-slope situation, as Facebook would try to draw a clean line between campaign ads and other politically charged issue ads.
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I tell them it's a very slippery slope to find companies that meet their ethical bar while keeping in mind their goal is to grow their assets.
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I understand why we worry about a slippery slope: Next it's three balls for a walk or seven-inning games or, heaven forbid, a square home plate.
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Mr. Bannon has told colleagues that sending more troops to Afghanistan is a slippery slope to the nation building that Mr. Trump ran against during the campaign.
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But any incentive to loosen the purse strings is also a slippery slope, particularly as the pain from the last recession — now a decade behind us — subsides.
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And because it could create a slippery slope that could lead to firing other officials in the Department of Justice who have oversight over the Russia investigation.
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Larkin and other genealogists condemned the move, calling it the start of a "slippery slope" that would see the method being used to investigate more trivial crimes.
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Concerns of those who opposed Brexit because they feared the political dynamics that the decision would set in motion were sometimes dismissed as unfounded slippery slope arguments.
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I&aposve talked to some people say they don&apost like special counsels period because they think it sends us down a dangerous path and a slippery slope.
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Any defense of offensiveness is a slippery slope into South Park, but it is possible to both value commentary and consider its collateral damage when stripped of intent.
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The right-wing media has long tried to discredit identity politics by claiming the concept is a slippery slope that ends in the recognition of inherently ridiculous groups.
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As I've written previously, there is a legitimate slippery slope argument to be made here (hello China), and Saudi Arabia's government holds no singular claim to atrocious actions.
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In the past, the young billionaire has publicly worried that making decisions like that would be a slippery slope in which his company could wield too much power.
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While investigators argue that access to encrypted messages can be critical to national security, tech companies warn that providing a backdoor into encrypted services is a slippery slope.
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But where some see a new form of medicine that eliminates genetic disease, others see a slippery slope to enhancements, designer babies and a new form of eugenics.
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And clearly, facial recognition-powered government surveillance is an extraordinary invasion of the privacy of all citizens — and a slippery slope to losing control of our identities altogether.
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Once you dive in and start to lap up this band, once you actually 'get' what Pollard is doing and it clicks, it's a slippery slope into madness.
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The U.S. Senate is moving with accelerating speed down a slippery slope of rules changes, each time thinking the next tweak to the filibuster will stop the slide.
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Scalise accused House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other Democrats of wanting to make a "slippery slope" that enables an erosion of gun rights in America.
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At the same time, despite being a Christian, she also opposes putting the Ten Commandments in schools because it creates a slippery slope in another direction, she said.
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His argument is one that's been used by many religious leaders, who say that the measure would simply be a slippery slope to the proliferation of recreational marijuana.
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Others see it as a slippery slope that might lead to so-called designer babies who are engineered to be stronger, smarter and more attractive than everyone else.
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And, he added, declining donations from people who are acting lawfully could create a slippery slope of shifting standards that would do little to benefit an organization's audience.
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People say there would be restrictions on these things, and that the slippery slope is a fallacy, but give people an inch and they will take a mile.
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"I'm sure they're going to make a slippery-slope argument here," said Joan Donovan, the director of Harvard's Technology and Social Change Research Project, who studies online extremism.
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This third category, failure to carry out responsibilities – raised concerns in the industry and it has left many questioning whether it might be a slippery slope for CCOs.
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Why it matters: There is no simple exit off the slippery slope here for me, or for those who invest in China but abhor its human rights record.
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Contrary to one popular belief, I do not believe politicians are inherently shady people, but I do believe they are extremely susceptible to the slippery slope of rationalization.
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It is a move that Francis seems open to, but his critics consider a first step on a slippery slope toward the end of the centuries-old tradition.
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"It's a slippery slope for the FDA to approve this," said Salim Syed, a senior biotech analyst at Mizuho Securities who is skeptical of Biogen's newly released data.
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William the White Hat has slalomed down Westworld's slippery slope over the years, gradually shedding his aversion to violence and his capacity for love and empathy in kind.
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We got a real-life example last week in San Antonio, where a PBS station sat atop the slippery slope toward censorship and then promptly started down it.
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Will this be the slippery slope that causes the U.S. to lose its dominance as the global center of finance or be the means of creating competitive advantage?
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Still, even with those boundaries in place, there will always be a gray area, a slippery slope of calculations and dreams that lead to difficult conversations and decisions.
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"There's always a slippery slope of sorts when you have donors who give and then after they give, they make requests from bureaucrats or politicians," Carson told CNN.
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Essentially, state parties didn't want to get shut out of controlling their own voter files — a step they believed would put them on a slippery slope toward irrelevance.
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One danger is that an FBI win could set a legal precedent that puts us on a slippery slope to the routine use of smartphones for government surveillance.
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"This is a pretty slippery slope to be judging people's hearts behind how they spend," he said, recounting a conversation with a mentor who reached out to him.
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And, indeed, as I talked to experts, it became clear that for some people relying on a mood "fix" from clothing could be a slippery slope into addiction.
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What this conflict, and so many others that have arisen since the Weinstein allegations first inspired revelatory shockwaves, comes down to is the idea of a slippery slope.
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The concerns of lawmakers and doctors, among others, that dying with dignity becomes a "slippery slope" towards euthanasia fail to contemplate the integral role of consent in the process.
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At Human Rights Watch, Boris Dittrich, advocacy director for its Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Program based in Berlin, agreed the two cases mark a dangerous slippery slope.
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We are mid-slide down a slippery slope that includes all sorts of minor injustices from Facebook and Google reading private correspondences, to violations as reported by Edward Snowden.
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"The idea that we restrict freedom of speech, the right to assemble, the right to protest because somebody might be offended is a slippery slope," he told BBC radio.
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"The idea that we restrict freedom of speech, the right to assemble, the right to protest because somebody might be offended is a slippery slope," Khan told BBC Radio.
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The Senate, a body that has viewed itself as above the majority-rule nature of the House, is on a very slippery slope toward becoming its little brother chamber.
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The case, highlighted in a report by Ars Technica, illuminates the slippery slope of using technology to track individuals outside of prison in the face of personal privacy rights.
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Dorsey addressed the slippery slope theory in his tweets explaining the move, saying Twitter also considered barring only candidate ads, but said issue ads present a way around this.
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He also argued that taking down such statues would lead to a slippery slope, in which monuments to Founding Fathers, like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, would be desecrated.
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But those same specialists caution that the U.S. could be on a slippery slope going after these "hackers," who some describe as more digital pranksters than actual cyber threats.
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When you Juul in your Tesla driving down El Camino, it's a quick and slippery slope to Juuling 30,000 miles up in the air on your red-eye flight.
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The slippery slope of such restrictions first came into view with a law in 2004 that banned the wearing of overt religious symbols in public primary and secondary schools.
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In such a scenario, the PSF would be on a slippery slope toward a coup or junta that controlled the West Bank, presumably until civilian rule could be restored.
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Any attempt to define dangerous speech is a slippery slope for future acts of censorship, they claim, and the ACLU's own case history is a model for this position.
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The slippery slope is when there aren't clear lines in the sand, and you don't have people constantly assessing whether "fun stuff" slowly became "all stuff" because it's convenient.
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Such an interpretation runs the risk of creating a slippery slope to infringe on the free speech of potential defendants to criticize witnesses and make public their own defense.
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H. R. McMaster — against political aides, led by the chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, who fear that sending in more troops would be a slippery slope toward nation-building.
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But Lee and others caution that the U.S. could be on a slippery slope going after these "hackers," who some describe as more digital pranksters than actual cyber threats.
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They reconnected years later in 603, right after Garland had been dropped by MGM and was, in his words, "on the slippery slope to a fadeout" at just 28.
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But Brown said the measure represented a possible slippery slope that could force candidates to release other private information, like health records, school records — and even a birth certificate.
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And like the bad guys that he used to put behind bars, McCabe was now on the slippery slope that we, in law enforcement, have always been cautioned about.
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This third category, failure to carry out responsibilities – raised concerns in the industry and it has left many to question whether it might be a slippery slope for CCOs.
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"This is a slippery slope to government-run health care for every American," said David Merritt, an executive vice president of America's Health Insurance Plans, a lobby for insurers.
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The restrictions on aiding the enemy that are constitutional in wartime provide the necessary flexibility, but since only Congress can declare war, the risk of a slippery slope is minimized.
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And though many oppose hacking back as a dangerous and morally ambiguous slippery slope, research shows that, for better or worse, in many cases it wouldn't be all that hard.
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Nunes: DOJ, FBI on a very slippery slope House Intelligence Committee chair speaks out ahead of deadline for agencies to hand over materials on alleged informants inside the Trump campaign.
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"Your dad's at the end of his rope/ I'm sliding down a slippery slope/ Anyway, sweetie, I better go, I'm getting sleepy … Love, Dad, s—, I don't know," he raps.
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From there on in, we have a sort of shady slippery slope of these fabrics having the strong risk, if we didn't rescue these, that these fabrics would be downcycled.
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We are on a slippery slope where gerrymandering, voter suppression and above all, limitless dark money in elections, has placed our country in the hands of a powerful ruling oligarchy.
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"I think that's a slippery slope, I think it's very dangerous, and I think it destroys what is one of the best parts of our economy being open," said Paulson.
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Prior to coloring my hair, no one told me it was addictive, but as I envisioned myself as a blonde in the mirror, I quickly realized it's a slippery slope.
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This kind of language from our representatives is a slippery slope to the '50s, and it makes women feel like male politicians aren't taking us or our policy concerns seriously.
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It expects the greenback to broadly hold firm in the face of policy easings by other major central banks while Aussie , kiwi and euro are seen on a slippery slope.
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A common argument against assistance with dying is that it is a slippery slope that will inevitably lead to abuse or reckless abandonment or denial of care against someone's wishes.
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That's why softening the rules governing wilderness areas, as some lawmakers have proposed, would defy the spirit of U.S public land protection and lead, almost inevitably, down a slippery slope.
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His comments foretelling a "slippery slope" also closely mirrored the National Rifle Association's (NRA) long-held argument that even modest gun control regulations would inevitably lead to more stringent ones.
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But a suicide expert told Insider that criminally charging people over the suicides of their partners could lead to a "slippery slope" that might even leave crisis line workers liable.
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As Manley notes, the change could be yet the latest one on a slippery slope that gives Democrats and Republicans more justification to mess with Senate rules in the future.
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" A White House official told reporters: "The president made clear these would be across-the-board tariffs with no exclusions ... One problem with exclusions is that it's a slippery slope.
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If I slack on my workouts, or get less than six hours of sleep a night, extreme irritability or a slippery slope into a dark depression are sure to follow.
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Assertions of speech and press rights that would accord pornography nearly boundless First Amendment protection lest the nation tumble down the slippery slope to political censorship partake of this tendency.
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I was, and still am, concerned about the "slippery slope" that could become a coercive force on the elderly who face a crushing burden of cost for long-term care.
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Some of Mr. Trump's political advisers, including Stephen K. Bannon, worry about a slippery slope into nation building, but the president has not publicly indicated which way he is leaning.
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To acknowledge the true history of Thanksgiving would only be the first step, a slippery slope to a nation daring to utter the word "genocide" when thinking about its foundations.
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"Once we lose the trust of consumers and they don't believe what labels tell them, we're on a slippery slope that we don't want to go down," Mr. Hays said.
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Its messaging tends to focus on the possibility that any restriction enacted by Congress is always one step toward laws that end gun rights altogether — a standard slippery slope argument.
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The company has framed the government's request as a larger discussion of privacy and civil liberties, and a slippery slope that could open the way to similar demands in the future.
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We will still be on a slippery slope, but I bet many tech companies will be able to point to this moment as a law enforcement overreach that netted virtually nothing.
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On top of that, the fact that Mike and Eleven will be dating feels like the beginning of a slippery slope — is Stranger Things going to become a soapy teen drama?
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"When it comes to civil rights, when it comes to people's individual rights, we're not going to go down the slippery slope and try and climb back up," Joel Fulton said.
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But to get Medicare through Congress, Johnson and his liberal Democrat colleagues had to cut a deal with conservatives, who saw the plan as a slippery slope toward national health insurance.
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In November of 2013, when the then-Majority Leader Harry Reid led the Democrats to the first use of the nuclear option, he pushed the Senate out onto a slippery slope.
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And while NAFTA isn't the only globalized trade force driving down American wages, Michiganders feel like it was the slippery slope that led so many manufacturers to pack up and leave.
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And there's plenty for all Americans on all political sides to be worried about when it comes to the very big business and slippery slope to corruption foreign lobbying really is.
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It's a slippery slope though – first you're padding around the flat in a pair, then it's a few shop runs and all of a sudden they're on you in the club.
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Asked her thoughts on the Confederate flag, she said she understands its importance to many Southerners, and she wouldn't condone banning it because taking away people's freedom is a slippery slope.
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"Once we accept that death by dehydration is in some brain-damaged people's 'best interests' we are on a very slippery slope indeed," said Peter Saunders, campaign director of the group.
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" Echoing arguments that have been made in other countries, some Singaporeans have expressed concern that overturning the ban would threaten "traditional family values" and send the country down a "slippery slope.
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We take every morally supple situation and we hand it over to the legal priesthood, which by necessity is a system of technocratic rationalism, strained slippery-slope analogies and implied coercion.
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Press rights advocates jumped to Greenwald's defense on Tuesday, warning that the accusations against Greenwald could be seen as a silencing effort and a slippery slope toward criminalizing important journalistic practices.
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Gun rights advocates will argue that any attempts to limit the ability buy or own guns is a slippery slope leading to some sort of nationalized collection of all guns. 7.
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The veto, in which Brown cautioned against setting a "'slippery slope' precedent," marked a setback for Democrats and open-government advocates trying to uncover Trump's tax returns at the state level.
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"I think it's a very slippery slope for the league office to start getting in the business of telling a coach or team what minutes a player should play," he said.
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What the cruise missiles did instead was to flout international law (in particular, the prohibition of unilateral attacks under the United Nations Charter) and head us toward a very slippery slope.
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Critics also fear the legislation could carry broader implications and lead to a slippery slope of bypassing FDA regulations for less urgent cases, such as those with chronic illnesses, for example.
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Hopefully, whichever party gains the majority in the 85033 elections will remember this role and will resist the temptation to slip further down the slippery slope toward elimination of the filibuster.
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But the justification of everything Trump does as totally fine as long as it makes liberals and the media (and the political establishment more broadly) uncomfortable is a very slippery slope.
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Giving up this liberty and letting the government ultimately be the only entity with weapons is a slippery slope toward a country where the government is more powerful than the individual.
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This co-worker is gay, and the fact that she even thinks I don't like her because of that is a slippery slope when it comes to discrimination and employment issues.
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It's a slippery slope sometimes in entertainment, but in this moment in time that we've found ourselves in, I am proud to be sending the message that a female president can happen.
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The takeaways: On Nunes and the Russia probe: Looking into Nunes' controversial White House visit would be a "slippery slope" because it could be viewed as interfering with his investigation, said Spicer.
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As someone with a chronic disease (or multiple depending on the view), it is a slippery slope to get lost in the literature concerning my diagnosis and prognosis, which is relatively unknown.
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President Trump initially appeared to support passing meaningful and aggressive legislation gun control in the aftermath of the August shootings, but he later warned of a "slippery slope" on the Second Amendment.
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That's actually a game called the "Slippery Slope to Extremism," in which you guide a fast moving animal out of the way of obstacles that are—I think—meant to represent extremists.
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Wong constantly struggled against the prejudice engendered by the Broken Windows Theory, the idea that one act of "vandalism" will normalize it and send any neighborhood down a slippery slope of decay.
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If Indian parents relinquish their control over their children's marriages, the country will be on a slippery slope to Western-style teenage pregnancies and old people left to moulder in retirement homes.
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I thought I needed the opposite — a place for calm and still — but once I moved in with my boyfriend, my mind went on a slippery slope to a very bad place.
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A new privacy law in California would be a threat to ISPs trying to break into the digital advertising market and the start of a slippery slope for the Facebook-Google duopoly.
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It's meant to make sex a little wetter and wilder, so it's only natural that it'd ultimately get all up on your stuff and all over your body — it's a slippery slope.
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Some users argued that they should be allowed to decide what's "true, fake, or otherwise," a challenge that's bound to be a slippery slope in this era of algorithm-based confirmation bias.
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Related: Here's What US Boots on the Ground in Syria Really Means That still doesn't amount to major combat operations, but it's certainly a bit further along that slippery slope to quagmire.
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"I think it's a slippery slope on all those, that once you begin to weaken them, waive them in the name of streamlining and expediting, you de-emphasize certain laws," he said.
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The Ancient One may act selflessly in order to help others, but it's easy to see the hypocrisy in her actions, and how they can be a slippery slope toward real evil.
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Reference is made to statistics in Belgium which are concerning, but Belgian law is so different than the laws in the U.S., where there is no slippery slope is in the making.
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To lamely justify my position, I'll use the "slippery slope" argument, which goes: if I'm going to inject a morals clause in my fantasy football drafting, where do I draw the line?
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His comments on concerns related to banning features are noteworthy for that reason, and that they highlight concern about a perceived slippery slope when it comes to banning anything related to guns.
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It's a slippery slope to tyranny, my friends, and the Founding Fathers knew that the best defense against despotism was for every home to have its own well-stockpiled nuclear-missile silo.
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AIDs has always been a sort of social barometer for moral clarity, one fears these steps backward also represent the proverbial slippery slope for other tragic disease areas from cancer to Alzheimer's.
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It's fairly simple actually and shouldn't mean we're advocating for "gun control"— which some on the Right view as the first steps in the government's slippery slope advancement to disarming America. 85033.
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Millon is afraid that increased headgear use may set off a slippery slope of rougher play, which could eventually lead to arm, shoulder and chest padding — equipment already worn in boys' lacrosse.
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This would be a slippery slope and could ultimately lead to health insurance plans that provide very little coverage and translate into higher cost-sharing and out-of-pocket expenses for patients.
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With new rides opening, seasonal food abounding, and hotels debuting constantly, there's always a reason to return — and if you're a fan, it can be a slippery slope toward becoming wholly obsessed.
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He then turned the microphone over to Mr. Holton, who saw a slippery slope in new gun regulations and identified a new culprit in the proliferation of school shootings: the news media.
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"You quickly have a slippery slope where you decide whatever result you want and find a model that works with that," said Mr. Kumar, who now works at PwC, an auditing firm.
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" Referring to the evils of eugenics and other state-sponsored killing programs, the brief argues that Ohio's law "wards against the slippery slope to medical involvement in race- or sex-based abortions.
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I resisted the idea of publicly saying it, although, if the Justice Department had wanted to, that — I would've done it, because of the duty to correct and the slippery slope problem.
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" Asked if that type of filtering posed a contradiction, Mr. Seidman said, "We do not believe that there is a slippery slope between banning white supremacists on OkCupid to policing other beliefs.
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The decision, in a letter on Catholic life in remote Amazon areas, is a victory for conservative forces who had warned that change there would put the church on a slippery slope.
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She sees a younger version of herself in Taylor and she's shaken by it, because she realizes that she's gone down some slippery slope and can never make her way up again.
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" But Trump campaigned in 2016 as a Second Amendment absolutist, warning his base of supporters that, if elected, Democrats would come for their guns while calling expanded background checks a "slippery slope.
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" However, two weeks later, the president came to the opposite conclusion, saying, "We already have strong background checks," and calling the idea of expanding the US' background check system "a slippery slope.
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It is a dangerous, slippery slope to call leaders mentally unfit and suggest that they be removed from office for sheer political reasons, without any evidence to back up their health claims.
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Trump has made clear he wants witnesses to testify, in person, while senators -- including McConnell in private -- have warned that going down that path could lead to a politically precarious slippery slope.
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The no-excuses philosophy, as they tell it, can become a slippery slope, with good intentions about laying a foundation for learning spiraling into a desire for control that becomes almost violent.
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This is just another scootch down the slippery slope you stepped on when you signed up for Facebook, bought your first book on Amazon, and typed "symptoms of shingles" into a search box.
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As public colleges move rapidly to block or cancel white nationalist events, Creeley said he fears a slippery slope — one in which safety is used as a pretext for denying First Amendment rights.
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Gun control is often framed as a "slippery slope" by lobbyists on the side of the firearm industry, but Patrick says the lifestyle imagery these influencers post to Instagram is the real issue.
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I wrote earlier Monday about how eliminating the 60-vote threshold to end debate on Supreme Court nominations is just another step down the slippery slope of the Senate's evolution into the House.
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Yale School of Management Dean Jeffrey Sonnenfeld said Cook "drifted all over the map" during the interview, veering from constitutional arguments to concerns about security, privacy, and creating a slippery slope, he said.
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"If anything, we'd like a thinner border for trade, not a thicker one," Trudeau said, arguing that trade restrictions could lead down a slippery slope that could cause economic harm for both nations.
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Apple's slippery slope argument suggests that following the demand will have global repercussions — that by complying with the United States, they will be forced to hear similar demands made by countries like China.
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ET with a slippery slope argument that liberals were responsible for the "beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks" by calling for the removal of statues honoring Confederates.
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Despite Facebook and Twitter's slippery slope arguments, the solution to fair digital political advertising doesn't need to lie in the extremes, according to half a dozen political advertising researchers interviewed for this article.
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The diplomats acknowledged that military action could enflame already shaky relations with Russia but said they are not "advocating for a slippery slope that ends in a military confrontation," according to the Times.
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That, of course, is scary to the slippery-slope crowd, who worry that a small coterie of mostly male, mostly white, mostly obscenely wealthy people are making such enormous publishing decisions for everyone.
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While opponents say the monuments should be removed because they celebrate a shameful racial legacy, President Trump has said he sees a slippery slope toward erasing other contentious aspects of the nation's history.
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For Pat Healy of Issuer Network, who advises companies seeking to list on U.S. exchanges, this is a very slippery slope: Should the U.S. government become the global portfolio manager for the world?
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Apple has said it chooses not to build a "backdoor" way for governments to get into iPhones and to bypass encryption because that would create a slippery slope that could damage people's privacy.
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Needless to say, the popularity of shows like this, even with the gloss of scholarship that's attached, is a slippery slope where ultimately the bottom line becomes the final arbiter of cultural programming.
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"Facial recognition-powered government surveillance is an extraordinary invasion of the privacy of all citizens — and a slippery slope to losing control of our identities altogether," Brackeen wrote in a TechCrunch post in June.
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A law professor and director of the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary's University in San Antonio called removal a "slippery slope," saying judging historical figures through a modern lens can be difficult.
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That's why so many politicians currently making inroads from the the far right label themselves "liberty-minded": They have pledged to prevent the first rock from sliding down the slippery slope toward government control.
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The Colorado Civil Rights Commission, another party in the case, also filed a brief on Monday to defend the state's civil rights law, warning that granting leeway to "expressive" businesses is a slippery slope.
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"They believe that this is a slippery slope, that there is a need to send a message to Israel that there is a cost associated with its pushing the envelope too far," he said.
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And fine, these are friendships that were, I'll admit, already fragile, but it's a slippery slope once you get into the habit of not communicating which expenses are shared and which you've got covered.
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Critics of his military strategy both in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq have made comparisons to Vietnam, using fraught terms like "quagmire" and "slippery slope" to link his decisions to those of an earlier era.
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Oh, but the second we talk about trust fund payouts or maybe purchasing long-term health insurance for the injuries we suffer on the job, NCAA purists bleat about the slippery slope to corruption.
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Jerry Brown, a Democrat, had vetoed a similar measure back in 2017, questioning the constitutionality and concerned that it sets a "slippery slope" of what individual states could require of candidates in the future.
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And the very fact that the right is enshrined in the Constitution ensures that reasonable measures to minimize gun violence don't put us on a slippery slope to ultimate government confiscation of everyone's weapons.
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However, he said that banning ads from politicians could create a slippery-slope in which ads dealing with specific issues like healthcare and immigration could also be deemed as political and inappropriate for advertisements.
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And reinstituting programs piecemeal could be a slippery slope that gives lawmakers an excuse to delay the full re-opening of the government, which is what really needs to happen to protect American families.
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Amazon does what it can to rein in bad actors but it is at the top of a slippery slope in turning over its main buy button for new books to third-party sellers.
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The way Mark sees it, the economy could take an even worse hit if people are sent back to work as the outbreak continues ... and he tells us why that's a very slippery slope.
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"There is a slippery slope if you get very precious about holding out a litmus test for service on a board," said Reynold Levy, the former president of Lincoln Center and a philanthropy expert.
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Despite a dearth of examples of Vaughn being blasted, hosts Brian Kilmeade and Steve Doocy went as far as to suggest that the Vaughn incident is a slippery slope toward a second civil war.
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Franks pointed to the slippery slope of attempting to engineer a society through sterilizing those "with the physical and mental disabilities, poverty, over-population, and unwantedness in general" and condemned abortions of any kind.
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Democrats acknowledge the backlash to recent calls from former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens to repeal the Second Amendment underscores the public fears about a "slippery slope" when it comes to gun control.
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Grassley said Comey did not want to list names or tell them whether the president was under investigation because it would lead to a "slippery slope" in which other names could ultimately be revealed.
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This hyperbole might feel reasonable to someone faced with a social justice mob, but to proponents of cancel culture, it seems more like a disingenuous slippery slope that really only works to marginalize victims.
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And three more storms, backed up one behind the other on a slippery slope from Canada, are heading toward the region starting on Monday, said Jacob DeFlitch, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
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Opponents say that spanking — generally defined as hitting a child with an open hand on the behind — leads to a slippery slope of abuse and can cause emotional and behavioral problems down the line.
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But I suppose the question you're raising has to do with the slippery-slope argument, which is that if you start calling everyone a fascist and depriving them of a platform, where does it end?
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"You can think of this as a slippery slope with what begins as small acts of dishonesty escalating to much larger ones," said study lead author Neil Garrett, now a neuroscience researcher at Princeton University.
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"We are on the very slippery slope that leads to JCPOA collapse," says Richard Nephew, an expert at Columbia University who worked on negotiations with Iran in the Obama White House between 2011 and 2013.
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By doing so we can work aggressively to prevent young people from going down the wrong path again, keeping them out of prison by providing access to college rather than a slippery slope to prison.
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His father Joe (Grier) acknowledges that the allegations against Cosby are awful, but says that not giving Cosby the benefit of the doubt as far as "innocent until proven guilty" goes is a slippery slope.
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CNN: How do you change the dynamic around the gun debate, which is that any concession by gun rights supporters is regarded as the start of a slippery slope to the government taking everyone's guns?
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Never mind being a completist (the 500 hand-crafted, unique album covers of the original Propeller album make this literally impossible)—even just a casual interest to grab some on vinyl is a slippery slope.
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Dystopic stories about banned-emotion societies always read like cautionary tales, warning about how some current event or new change in the world is a slippery slope that could lead to a dark, inhuman place.
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But if you start saying now, 'I am not going to be for this or for that,' then you start getting into that slippery slope where every deduction becomes something that people want to save.
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Moreover, despite the political rhetoric around whether the standards are a slippery slope toward privatizing the VA, the issuance of these standards is a personal success story for Trump, who campaigned on expanding veterans' healthcare.
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I wonder if that truth holds for those like me who teeter on the edge of that slippery slope, trying like hell not to fall while wondering if it isn't just easier to give in.
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"The problem with that, is once you start using untested or unsupported stories to support a stance, it becomes a slippery slope, because then you can use another unsupported story, without any data," said Eren.
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The decision, one of the most significant of his papacy, appeared a victory for conservative senior clergy, who had feared a slippery slope towards a married priesthood throughout the Church if the recommendation was approved.
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The actions imposed by social media companies against Jones are a "slippery slope" at a time when the nation remains so divided along conservative and liberal ideological lines, according to a veteran Washington crisis manager.
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Hence, this is the beginning of a slippery slope that could easily lead to just the kind of outcomes Apple is trying to avoid with encryption, even though this case is technically about something else.
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Though the research on this disciplinary technique is unclear as to whether mild "conditional" spanking leads to a slippery slope of increasing violence, or whether it has long-term consequences for a child's well-being.
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But, you say, in the English language, when the three estates of medieval society began to blur with the rise of the new merchant class, terms like "lady" and "madame" stepped on a slippery slope.
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But I also know very well that the answer to "Why not?" is because it's a slippery slope to a lifetime of fixation, of always needing more, always finding a new self-identified problem to correct.
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But the free perks and the fun things are the start of a slippery slope that ends in extremely siloed-off media empires that don't compete on services or prices simply because they don't have to.
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"This is a very slippery slope," Sarah Kate Ellis, head of GLAAD, an LGBTQ rights group, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, ticking off incidences such as medical care where being turned down could have drastic consequences.
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To me, the good news/bad news of the situation is that we don't really need to worry about a Thiel-induced slippery slope leading to the collapse of the free press and the democratic system.
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Image: GettyDirector Oliver Stone shook his fist at all those darned Pokémon Go players today, calling the game "a new level of invasion" and warning that it could lead us down a slippery slope to totalitarianism.
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According to the Population Institute's annual report on the state of reproductive health and rights, the situation has continued to decline: "a slippery slope that is quickly becoming a free fall," as the report puts it.
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Abandoning that policy, according to officials from President George W. Bush's and President Barack Obama's administrations, risks sending a dangerous message to US allies and adversaries alike and sending the US tumbling down a slippery slope.
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Cash-loving Germans, for example, have been concerned that a move by the European Central Bank to phase out the 500 euro note by the end of next year is the start of a slippery slope.
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The move has been both lauded and met with controversy, raising questions about free speech, censorship, and the slippery slope of moral jurisdiction; even Spotify itself acknowledges that the policy presents prickly, complex territory to navigate.
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Slippery Slope is just one of a series of interactive elements that make up the FBI's project, a well-meaning but awkwardly presented initiative that feels as down with the kids as a school security guard.
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When we allow the President and his staff to dictate what questions they answer -- or whether they answer questions at all -- we run the risk of sliding down a slippery slope away from a healthy democracy.
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But his most recent comments emphasizing the need to address mental health, highlighting existing laws and talking about the "slippery slope" of enacting new gun laws raised questions about whether he'd abandoned support for background checks.
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Joseph Ambash, a lawyer who represented Brown University in its 2004 case and wrote a brief in the current case on behalf of several Ivy League universities, cited concerns about what he called a slippery slope.
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In "Formica (adjusted to fit, distorted for the times, slippery slope 4)" (2011/2012/2015/2018), the resulting image is a complete abstraction that breaks down visual information into spirals and graphs reminiscent of sound waves.
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" Don Gorder, the chairman of the music business and management department at Berklee College of Music, called Spotify's decision "a big deal" given the influence of its playlists, but warned that "it is a slippery slope.
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And Trump has often played into the powerful gun lobby group's conceit that any reform of gun laws is a slippery slope that will inevitably lead to the total withdrawal of the right to bear arms.
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Name Withheld By the ''slippery slope'' philosophy of the N.R.A., I assume you mean its tendency to argue that any proposed gun regulation is a step toward canceling the Second Amendment: to equate restriction with abolition.
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"Allowing jamming technology is a very slippery slope, and once that door is opened we can never turn back," Ben Levitan, a North Carolina-based wireless communication expert who has advised correction facilities, told me by telephone.
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Even though the slippery slope fallacy is a fallacy, I don't want to live in Stargate world where certain shapes aren't allowed to be drawn in the sand because we figured out how to solve our brains.
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"There are always companies that are looking to make their numbers this quarter and they're willing to cannibalize next quarter and there's always a bit of a slippery slope when you go down that path," Caldwell said.
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But taking investment money would be a slippery slope toward abandoning their mission: Once you have investors, you have obligations to maximize their profits, which is incompatible with ensuring that the benefits of AI are widely distributed.
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While many believe that cheat days are a slippery slope, they provided motivation for me to get back on track the next day, especially because I didn't restrict myself too much and make it a cheat week.
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It's a slippery slope, and at the end of it is The War on Drugs' Lost in the Dream, a mouthwatering tribute to all of the dad rock that ever made us wish we still used landlines.
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Which is a very dangerous, slippery slope to tread at any time but especially in an age in which the President of the United States is actively seeking to undermine the idea that objective facts actually exist.
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Apple had opposed the court order, arguing that it would be a slippery slope that could force the company to open many iPhones, thus compromising the privacy of its customers and the strength of its product security.
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The court dismisses such conflicts as an "intramural disagreement" and declares that, if it ruled otherwise in this dispute, it would put itself on a slippery slope of constant conflict between the other two branches of government.
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As credit card balances creep higher and Americans' confidence in their ability to pay their bills declines, adding on even more high-interest debt is a "slippery slope," said Brianna Wright, a consumer research specialist at MagnifyMoney.
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The Australian state of Queensland last October approved a new law to expand police powers to search activists, something unions called a "slippery slope" that could lead to the restrictions being deployed against a range of strikers.
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With such data showing no slippery slope toward widespread use or abuse, "a lot of the hypothetical claims our opponents made no longer carry so much weight with lawmakers," said Kim Callinan, chief executive of Compassion & Choices.
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" They were surprised, in part, because archaeologists since the 1960s had been trained never to assume the purity or coherence of a people, a slippery slope to the conclusion that certain peoples came by their advantages "naturally.
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But taking investment money would be a slippery slope towards abandoning their mission: Once you have investors, you have obligations to maximize their profits, which is incompatible with ensuring that the benefits of AI are widely distributed.
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But experts worry that argument would create a slippery slope and open the door to cases that could weaken the security and privacy of the curtilage, a legal concept older than the founding of the United States.
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Members on both sides of the aisle are worried that it's all a slippery slope that leads to lowering the threshold for legislation, which would make it smooth sailing for whatever party is in power to pass bills.
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"If a study like this is OK, is this a slippery slope to other studies once we think about this as a captive audience good to experiment on?" said Reiter, who is not involved with the salt trial.
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Of course, we could hand over the master key—make no mistake, the software the FBI is demanding is a slippery slope to just that—to our data, trusting government to keep it out of criminal hackers' hands.
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My wife likes to talk, but I'm not a fan of talking because talking leads to communication, and from there it's a slippery slope to feelings, and then the next thing you know, you're living in your life.
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Manchin feels that the proposal now has a greater chance of success under Trump than under Obama, because Second Amendment supporters won't be as worried that Trump will use it as a slippery slope toward more gun control.
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There are also concerns that legalizing assisted suicide would lead to a "slippery slope" situation where people become too quick to use the option, or the guidelines for who can request assisted suicide become more and more lax.
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In a wild, impromptu press conference last week, Trump bemoaned the loss of monuments marking the Confederacy, suggesting that the campaign for their removal is a slippery slope: "I wonder, is it George Washington next week?" he said.
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The argument would be that it is a slippery slope, to enable a precedent that allows a prosecutor to invade the Oval Office and shine a light on confidential conversations between the president and the White House lawyer.
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It is not right to stop him from doing anything; he is the president (Article II says he can do whatever he likes), and it is a slippery slope to think that you know better than the president.
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This may create a slippery slope whereby the United States is dragged into conflict as proxy attacks on partners — such as Houthi missile attacks on Riyadh in response to the Saudi-led war in Yemen — are not uncommon.
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"I don't know where someone draws the line on externalizing the blame on a substance," Verbora said, noting that a defence like Brown's seems like a potential slippery slope for using drugs as a scapegoat for criminal behaviour.
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" He told The Washington Post that he was filing a formal discrimination complaint in Austin because barring any group from a screening was a start down an exclusionary slippery slope, and so "it's the principle of the thing.
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Most tech and social media companies already have policies to quickly remove violent or terror-related content when prompted, and they argue any legal requirement to report this content could create a slippery slope toward more government security.
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"I am sure that more defections of my colleagues will take place, since North Korea is already on a slippery slope," the defector, Thae Yong-ho, said during a news conference in Seoul, the capital of South Korea.
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Removing content that promotes doubt in election results is not a viable approach, both because content moderation is a slippery slope, and because there are places around the world where allegations of outright vote-rigging are all too credible.
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The center-right minority government feared that rejecting the EU's Third Energy Package, designed to enhance energy flows and improve regulatory oversight, would put Norway on a slippery slope to a Brexit-like ending of its close EU relations.
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"It's a slippery slope with free speech where if you start making exceptions, where do you stop and where do you draw the line?" said Emma Llanso, a director at the Center for Democracy in Technology, a think tank.
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"Verification has always been a slippery slope.... It's gone from being a trust mechanism to a badge of online social status where employers use their ability to verify as a reward to employees," he told me over Twitter DMs.
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Kumar tells us he could have raised much more this time around — that in fact there's substantial market pressure to raise a larger fund these days — but he calls it a "slippery slope" that he isn't interested in navigating.
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Starring a slick-haired Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman at her most serene, Gattaca is a deserved cult classic, a highlight in the hubristic-humans-playing-God subgenre, the urtext for any discussion of the slippery slope toward eugenics.
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Defending hateful speech may appear to be a crazy academic or legal position until we look at the "slippery slope" toward fascist or socialist totalitarianism created when we adopt our own special bans on the free speech of others.
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But briefly summarized: Kavanaugh also takes a trip down the slippery slope, suggesting that having designated broadband providers for special regulation, the next stop is Google, Facebook and TechCrunch — well, he didn't mention it by name, but it's implied.
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The centre-right minority government feared that rejecting the EU's Third Energy Package, designed to enhance energy flows and improve regulatory oversight, would put Norway on a slippery slope to a Brexit-like ending of its close EU relations.
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The State Department officials insisted in their memo that they were not "advocating for a slippery slope that ends in a military confrontation with Russia," but rather a credible threat of military action to keep Mr. Assad in line.
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Trump might also decide that Putin is so hell-bent on conquering Estonia that trying to stop him could send the two countries down a slippery slope toward full-blown war, a price he doesn't think America should pay.
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ERIC R. CAREY, ARLINGTON, VA. To the Editor: The failure of Congress to assess the merits of a United States military intervention in Syria has even more profound slippery-slope implications for a far more concerning matter: North Korea.
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Google seems to have a vague, poorly grounded fear that closing the loophole would open the way to frivolous lawsuits and investigations and lead to a slippery slope that will damage its interests and the freedom of the internet.
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Like President Obama, who controversially used executive orders to unilaterally implement immigration and environmental policies, President Trump has turned his back on the Constitution and put the country on a slippery slope where future presidents could abuse their power.
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But he has since appeared to waffle on his stance, casting gun violence as primarily a mental health issue and warning of the "slippery slope" — a popular talking point of the National Rifle Association — of enacting gun control measures.
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She argues that surveilling your children is a step down a slippery slope to paranoia and authoritarianism, and that we as parents are enabling corporations to profit from this by selling us Ring doorbell cameras and backpack GPS trackers.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Chris Mazdzer's luge career was on a slippery slope only weeks before he put together a brilliant run to deliver the United States a long-awaited individual Olympic medal in the men's event on Sunday.
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Bio-ethicists are concerned that this practice is the beginning of a slippery slope leading to the so-called "designer baby," where parents would be able to select from a checklist of traits they want their children to have.
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The slippery slope But concerns were highlighted over the weekend, as disputes broke out at airports around the country and in the courts over Trump's executive order blocking or suspending the entry of immigrants and refugees into the US turned chaotic.
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"When journalists are not able to question those in authority, hold them to account, freely and with impunity then you start a slippery slope to the closed societies that none of us want to see growing in influence," he said.
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This weekend, there was yet another battle for Canada's freedom (or something) against the looming threat of this motion, which was described to me by an anti-M-103 protester as "a slippery slope" towards anti-blasphemy laws becoming the norm.
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Critics of jamming say that opening up the rules could create a "slippery slope" to letting jammers proliferate outside prisons, and that imprecise jamming could block legitimate calls outside the prison — although micro-jamming promises to make that problem less likely.
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A series of new studies compiled in a report, "The Road to Bribery and Corruption: Slippery Slope or Steep Cliff?" suggest that, given the opportunity, people are likely to perform corrupt acts such as bribery, if the opportunity arises abruptly.
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"But it's a slippery slope if you start to say that someone with an interest can't fund a study, because you will very quickly end up with very few studies," as the money to pay for them would dry up.
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Some might know her better for her famous 2005 book, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, which was a look at how a sex-positive brand of female empowerment can become a slippery slope to misogyny.
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"If assisted suicide is made available to anyone, it would be very easy to roll down the slippery slope of convincing people to take this assistance when that might not be the actual wish of the individual," the group said.
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So there is a political lens, people will quibble about what the lens is, who designs the lens, but I don't think the slippery slope is actually, in practice, nearly as much of a concern as people imagine it would be.
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SYDNEY, March 5 (Reuters) - The dollar stayed on a slippery slope on Monday amid fears of a global trade war, while the euro dipped briefly but rebounded quickly after results of exit polls for Italy's elections pointed to a hung parliament.
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"The bump stocks gave me pause because that's an open door, a slippery slope, to way more infringements," she said, referring to the NRA's support for restrictions on the devices, which let semiautomatic rifles fire almost like an automatic weapon.
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The ads make up only a small portion of the social-media platform's advertising revenue, but Zuckerberg said banning ads from politicians could create a slippery slope in which ads dealing with specific issues, like healthcare and immigration, could be banned.
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With this latest proposal, it is clear to me that we are on the slippery slope to modifications that will inevitably result in a weaponized version of this technology: something that I have been completely opposed to from the beginning.
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Sure, the topic of privacy is a slippery slope that most of us have already tumbled halfway down, but for many, the idea of introducing a cloud-connected camera into the bedroom was understandably a bridge or two too far.
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I am so sick and tired of participating in this predictable cycle of politics, where a mass shooting happens, the left calls for new gun laws -- some meaningful, some unproductive -- the right yells "slippery slope" and hides behind the Constitution.
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"He should be remembered and discussed for the lessons he provided," Wei said, adding that he understands the concern of those who argue that erasing the names of historical figures with offensive views by today's standards can be a slippery slope.
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Trump has made clear he wants witnesses to testify, in person, while senators -- including McConnell in private -- have warned that going down that path could lead to a politically precarious slippery slope in the GOP effort to acquit the President.
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I'm very suspicious about that slippery slope and the kind of Sheryl Sandberg feminism where it's like, you are "empowered" to work all the time—you can be empowered to buy anything you want or to work all the time.
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The media, historically, hasn't had much affection for big businesses and institutions but many journalists are beginning to view Trump's tactics as a slippery slope of unrestrained bullying and might be more willing to give companies a hearing than in the past.
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It's not a terrible policy, but when taken in conjunction with a Wall Street Journal report from April that claimed Google was in the process of implementing new ad-blocking features by default, it sounded like the beginning of a slippery slope.
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Waggoner walked a fine line between saying she wanted a ruling for her client but not a decision that creates a slippery slope, thereby possibly eroding civil rights laws for other classes of people or protecting an endless type of service providers.
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If the news about re-use is accurate, it goes a little way towards skidding down a slippery slope of setting a precedent for the FBI unlocking iPhones at will—but, err, only iPhone 5Cs running iOS 9 by the sounds of things.
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It's true that John and any other artist participating will have to opt in to the service, but it's hard to fight the feeling that this is a sort of slippery slope when it comes to experiencing the world through our mobile devices.
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"Arab (lawmakers) whose actions and remarks do not find favor with the political majority will be the first people harmed by the bill - however, it is a slippery slope and the bill has potential to affect all," she said in a statement.
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While Kasarda and McCollum recognize that YouTube is a private company and has the right to police its content, they view these new rules as a dangerous slippery slope away from freedom of speech on the internet's largest public square of video content.
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I usually shoot for 5 miles during my weekday runs, but am recovering from two injuries over the span of four months — an undiagnosed knee injury and a broken toe (I am CLUMSY and trail running can be a slippery slope, literally).
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President Donald Trump this week made the argument that the removal of Confederate monuments could lead down a slippery slope to the taking down of monuments to the Founding Fathers; he also implied the removal of Confederate monuments was tantamount to changing history.
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But Lieutenant Crowell lamented how "the progression from publishing a benign book on leadership to becoming immediate pawns in a political debate shows the slippery slope that awaits SEALs who market their identities and pursue public personas in the wake of SEAL fame."
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"I am so sick and tired of participating in this predictable cycle of politics, where a mass shooting happens, the left calls for new gun laws ― some meaningful, some unproductive ― the right yells 'slippery slope' and hides behind the Constitution," she said.
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He predicted that it would be a slippery slope to extending insurance subsidies, citing a 2010 report from his Center for Immigration Studies, which estimated that the government would pay an additional $8.1 billion if it offered Medicaid to all undocumented immigrants.
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Only, kudos aside, it can be easily argued that the second a house party accepts any kind of corporate sponsorship it takes the first steps on a slippery slope, blurring the lines between an independent free party and a licensed DIY rave.
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I heard the president say we're safer now, but those of us who have spent decades working on this and other strategic problems see the U.S. starting down the slippery slope of unwarranted concessions, weakened alliances, and rising risks of instability and conflict.
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And so, fearing to step onto a slippery slope, they resist what may be reasonable proposals to at least decrease the amount of gun violence in the U.S. Again, it cannot be denied that the elimination of firearms would necessarily eliminate firearm deaths.
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" But less than two weeks later and after talking with senior NRA officials, he was back to parroting the NRA's talking points on the massacres, claiming, "We already have strong background checks" and warning that new gun control measures were a "slippery slope.
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" He also portrayed the National Rifle Association — which spent $30 million to elect him — as something akin to a co-equal branch of government, and echoed NRA talking points by expressing concern that any new gun control measures would be "a slippery slope.
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As we progress in time science and reason will overtake more and more beliefs — Frank Lyons, Hoggard The writer describes this futures as a "slippery slope," but I think this analogy is incorrect, portraying this technology as some that will inevitably become corrupted.
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Amid vitriolic homophobia and stigma around AIDS — people losing their jobs, family members barring gay relatives from their homes, lifetime quarantine for HIV-positive people — shuttering the bath houses sounded to them like a step down a slippery slope toward concentration camps.
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But over four seasons and counting — the fifth of six seasons premieres on AMC later this month — the show has proved to be a heartbreaking tale about a well-meaning man who goes down the slippery slope of corner-cutting and clever scams.
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Washington (CNN)A Democratic congresswoman who is running for president criticized on Thursday the Justice Department's indictment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, saying it puts the US government on a "dangerous and slippery slope" in its treatment of journalists and all Americans. Rep.
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H.R. McMaster, the national security adviser, who both served in Afghanistan — and his political aides, among them his chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, who argue that a major deployment would be a slippery slope to nation building, something Mr. Trump has always shunned.
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If this is the case, why are insurers permitted to deny access to less addictive Schedule III drugs such as buprenorphine and putting patients on a slippery slope to addiction by first requiring them to try highly addictive opioids to treat chronic pain?
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I think that stalemate and stagnation are more powerful forces in our era than the slippery slope or the anti-Catholic ratchet, and that the echoes of prior crises in our current moment are just an aging civilization playing its greatest hits.
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But unlike prohibitions for heel hooks and neck cranks—measures made under the guise of competitor safety, particularly for lower belt ranks—the Donkey Guard ban is purely for matters of realness, or lack thereof, an arbitrary step down a slippery slope.
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It's the story of an 18-year-old with autism from Turkey who went on Reddit looking for sex advice, and somehow inspired the most positive think tank devoted to politely debating the slippery slope of human sexuality that the internet has ever seen.
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Related: The Syrian Regime Is Close to a Victory That Could Turn the War Some rebels also fear that the exclusion of the Nusra Front is just the start of a slippery slope on which one brigade after another will be made an official target.
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The power stars like Curry hold over this kind of discourse was front of mind to Kelly, who told Curry that believing these more outlandish conspiracy theories can be a slippery slope, leading to mistrust in real, important scientific research, like climate change and vaccinations.
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When the government complained, he published a diabolically clever four-stage image narrative demonstrating the slippery slope that transformed the depiction of the king into the representation of a pear — a process that seemed to ask: At what point does my image become objectionable?
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Critics of aid-in-dying laws have for years warned that they could set the country on a "slippery slope," in which lethal prescriptions are dispensed not just to the terminally ill, but to anyone with a disease that harms their quality of life.
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But the problem is that once you start to build an audience based on outrage and anger, as MSNBC and CNN are both doing in the age of Trump, you risk tumbling down a slippery slope, which is exactly what happened to Fox News.
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"The real slippery slope is normalizing this idea of guns — a tool designed to kill and practice killing — into our coffee shops and our bars and on our streets and in our schools and carried in purses with special pockets to conceal weapons," he says.
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Some, such as game designer and gamergater Mark Kern, portrayed the Code of Conduct as a slippery slope that leads to code being added to the Linux kernel not because it is good, but rather to ensure that there is equal representation in the codebase.
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Trump wasn't referring to the white supremacists, but to the counter-protesters whom the president believes are on a slippery slope towards "changing history" by tearing down monuments of Confederate heroes and potentially, he has said, the Founding Fathers like George Washington, who owned slaves.
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Too often, we turn away from these difficult moments and opportunities to inter-relate, and from there, it's a slippery slope to engaging in behaviors in secret, prevaricating when the issue comes up and even lying in order to not make our partners upset.
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We got Cuban leaving Nate 'n Als Sunday in Bev Hills and, although he thinks it's good the restaurant owner took a moral stand, he worries it could become a slippery slope and other owners could deny service based on race or sexual orientation.
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Canadian privacy expert and Ryerson University professor Ann Cavoukian told me that while this may be an effective short-term tool for tracking water consumption and encouraging reduced usage, allowing all residents to see the data could be a slippery slope as the situation worsens.
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That, plus the power of the National Rifle Association and the pervasive belief within gun rights circles that any gun restriction is a slippery slope to confiscation, virtually ensures that nothing major will change at the federal level in the wake of future school shootings.
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We have fought voter purge programs before and will continue using every tool at our disposal in the courts and legislatures to ensure that the myopic Ohio decision does not become the top of a slippery slope toward broader and even more suppressive laws.
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"Beginning to suggest the daily briefings shouldn't happen every day in the format that they are, I think, begins to establish a slippery slope," said Scott Wilson, the national editor for The Washington Post, who was a White House correspondent during the Obama presidency.
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" The synod fathers' disputes are rolled down the slippery slope and deemed a "full-scale theological crisis" in which the hope that Francis would foster unity and renewal is undone by the supposed liberals' supposed desire to accommodate "the sexual revolution and all its works.
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When the policy was introduced three weeks ago, it was the second part, on artists' conduct, that immediately became controversial, with record companies and some artist representatives complaining that it amounted to selective punishment, and was a slippery slope that could be applied too widely.
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One tactic the organization uses to foment anxiety within its ranks is to perpetuate the notion that the government is attempting to seize the weapons of law-abiding citizens, and so any compromise would represent a slippery slope toward a total ban on firearms.
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"If the government can make laws on its own, then you'll be heading down a slippery slope because they can next pass laws blocking parts of the internet, or allowing detention without trial, for example, and all laws without any Legislative Council scrutiny," he added.
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McNamee's warning about smartphone backdoors creating a slippery slope comes two days after President Donald Trump slammed Apple for refusing to help the FBI to unlock the iPhones of the suspected shooter at Naval Air Station Pensacola that left three Americans dead last month.
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Company officials see the kits as part of a larger educational offering, a talking point that can help reduce the stigma of addiction and instruct students about the slippery slope from common pain medication such as Vicodin and Percocet to opioid addiction and overdose.
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The NRA remains a powerful lobby The National Rifle Association has consistently objected to changes in gun laws in recent years, arguing that any further restrictions would amount to the breach of Second Amendment rights and lead to a slippery slope of more gun control.
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"In isolation this wouldn't be a big issue, but this could be the start of a slippery slope where the government gets much more drawn into individual deals and negotiations than historically they have," Andrew Sentance, a former Bank of England policymaker and adviser to PwC, said.
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I think especially in the moment that we're living in, we want to bring truth to power, and if documenting the experience helps either make people behave better or share what was happening, it's easy for us to advocate for that, but it becomes a slippery slope.
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Still, others don't want US citizenship for American Samoans, saying they think it will lead the territory onto a slippery slope that will end in the loss of land and indigenous culture, comparing it to what has happened to Native Hawaiians in the state of Hawaii.
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Critics worry that the case, which led to the arrest of a 17-year-old high school student who has not yet been named, marks the start of a "slippery slope" to law enforcement using such methods to investigate increasingly less serious offenses, eroding people's genetic privacy.
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And at the oral argument, the baker's lawyers had a difficult time explaining why siding with him wouldn't grease a slippery slope that gives anyone connected with a wedding—from the makeup artist to the jeweller—a right to refuse to do business with gays and lesbians.
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Any good dog owner should know that "the law of civility" requires them to bring a bag on walks, but Chuck's slippery slope scenario, in which the plazas and homes of New York City are going to be full of figurative poop, is a little much.
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While Apple tussles with the government over whether it will comply with a court order that would require it to help law enforcement break into an iPhone, it's busy winning first prize for the most bombastic embrace of slippery-slope metaphors used by a PR machine.
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However, any use — no matter what the ultimate aim — of AI to aid or otherwise augment warfare or government weaponry was met with fierce backlash from both Google employees and technology critics who see automated warfare as a dangerous slippery slope with deeply complex ethical implications.
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Many senators are worried that the if Republicans weaken the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees, in the same way Democrats did for all other presidential appointments in 2013, the chamber would be on a slippery slope and the filibuster for legislation could someday be diminished too.
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"At the moment the NIT is only being targeted at people who belong in jail, [but] as with everything it's a slippery slope, next they'll be targeting darknet markets then it'll be WikiLeaks, etc etc," Llewelyn told Motherboard in an email after his talk at HOPE.
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It's a slippery slope argument, in which gun rights are slowly eroded by small-scale legislation: First, people on the terrorist watch list can't buy guns, then people who are convicted of domestic violence can't buy them, and so on, until no one can buy them.
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Slippery Slope to Extremism is a Flash game, created as part of the FBI's new "Don't Be a Puppet" program, that aims to warn teens and other young internet users about the dangers of becoming radicalized over the internet — apparently by assaulting them with terrible video games.
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Though Cook's slippery slope argument may have far-reaching implications in the world of encryption, the court will focus on the passwords demanded in the case at hand: When a phone was used by a known terrorist and people were killed, a law expert told CNBC.
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Brimming with dark comedy and cheery musical numbers up until its horrifying finale, The Wicker Man threads a basic conservative "slippery slope" argument through its depiction of a remote English island, Summerisle, known for its crisp delicious apples, which miraculously grow year-round on the island.
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It's the broader idea -- which the NRA and lots of Republican elected officials push -- that, at root, any attempt to make gun laws stricter amounts to the first step on a slippery slope that eventually leads to liberals coming to your house and confiscating your guns.
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We are not advocating for a slippery slope that ends in a military confrontation with Russia; rather, we are calling for the credible threat of targeted U.S. military response to regime violations to preserve the CoH and the political track, which we worked so hard to build.
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If the VA prices became a benchmark for many more Americans, "that could lead to a slippery slope whereby lawmakers are emboldened to try and enact other legislation for Medicare or other price negotiation strategies" nationally, said Michael Yee, health industry analyst at RBC Capital Markets.
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The Italian sports car specialist rarely resists bringing some new variation of an existing model to a showcase like Geneva, but the main attraction will be the 641-horsepower Urus, which the company calls a super sport utility vehicle (a slippery slope in nomenclature, to be sure).
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The easing of gun control laws, and the efforts to expand the definition of self-defense, are alarming to Italians who see Mr. Salvini's emphasis on security issues not as a step toward a safer country, but as a slippery slope toward a more dangerous place.
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After those shootings, Trump signaled he would support stricter background checks, only to later assert that the United States already has "very strong background checks" and repeat a common National Rifle Association (NRA) talking point by warning of a "slippery slope" of enacting gun reform legislation.
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But by jumping into the race and highlighting all these threats to Israel's future, he can force them onto the agenda and force the Blue and White and Labor parties to discuss what he has called a "slippery slope" to an "apartheid" future for the West Bank.
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But by jumping into the race and highlighting all these threats to Israel's future, he can force them onto the agenda and force the Blue and White and Labor parties to discuss what he has called a "slippery slope" to an "apartheid" future for the West Bank.
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Also... "Decisions to remove memorials to Confederate generals and officials who have no other major historical accomplishment does not necessarily create a slippery slope towards removing the nation's founders, former presidents, or other historical figures whose flaws have received substantial publicity in recent years," the association said.
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Given the growing animosity between two campaigns and with primary season approaching, it's unlikely Warren's maneuver is going to satisfy the Buttigieg campaign, and she might just be stuck on a slippery slope where every time she a little bit, they push for her to give more.
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Seefried says she was astonished last year when a Drug Enforcement Administration agent, speaking at a forum at the state Capitol, made the same slippery-slope argument against banking marijuana that is often made against smoking it: It would lead to banking cocaine, heroin and so on.
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The more "replication" schools emerge, the farther away each new school is from the good intentions of those who created the philosophy — and the higher the risk of teachers misinterpreting the idea and falling down a slippery slope toward a disconnected desire for control and compliance.
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Consider, for instance, the backgrounds of certain people now close to Trump and at the Department of Health and Human Services: But even if the avoidance of certain words in budget talks is mainly just playing politics, it can lead to a slippery slope of suppression, said Holt.
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On the other side, Mr Peck and Curtis Gannon, a lawyer from the solicitor general's office, struggled to address the justices' slippery slope concerns that permitting Miami to sue would invite every launderer and restaurant owner in declining neighbourhoods to see the FHA as a cash-raising tool.
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And yet if I turn away from the screen, I might miss two golfers racing each other up a slippery slope, trying to reach an advantageous position for their next putt so they, too, can win the (tiny in comparison to most other network reality shows) cash prize.
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The independent study, titled "A Slippery Slope: Helping Victims or Supporting Systems of Abuse?" and meant for an internal UN audience, concluded that the "situation in Rakhine state is forcing international institutions into complicity with systematic abuses" against the Rohingya, partly due to "excessive self-censorship" on rights.
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" This allegation is seemingly supported by broader observations contained in the "Slippery Slope" paper, which noted that there had been a "failure to implement a system-wide protection strategy," an outcome that suggests a "lack of the kind of teamwork and collaboration demanded by Human Rights Up Front.
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But having owned several handheld devices before, I wondered that if I really wanted to commit I should bite the bullet and buy a PS4 or XBox (a gaming PC wasn't even up for consideration as that is one slippery slope I have no intention of ever sliding down).
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When we asked on multiple occasions how complying with the ADA on the web and apps could create an undue burden for Domino's, a spokesperson declined to give a single example of the type of slippery-slope scenario that they hint at in their justification of bringing the lawsuit.
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Some people seem to think that the life of a young, healthy person must be preserved by force of law, against the wishes of that person — perhaps because life itself is intrinsically valuable, or because we don't want to open the door to "slippery slope" regimes that normalize suicide.
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In addition to the City Club of New York, a small civic group that sued to stop the project, Deborah J. Glick, the assemblywoman whose district includes part of the park, had raised concerns about the cultural island, citing both the environment and the slippery slope of privatization.
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Each further inch down the slippery slope, Ryan looked less like Eddie Munster and more like Lucifer, until he "got there," endorsing Trump on June 2nd and then sort of, maybe half but not really, taking it back when Trump began questioning the impartiality of Judge Gonzalo Curiel.
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Gene editing, the process of changing DNA in sperm, eggs or embryos, is thought to possibly be a gateway to eliminating or treating diseases, but many fear that such technology can lead to the slippery slope of creating humans with a desired set of traits, or designer babies.
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The Mail quotes one social media critic who called the Christmavocado (or whatever) "hipster nonsense," several others who complained that it's not "traditional" enough, and another who worried that this could be the top of a slippery slope that will send us all plummeting to Christmas kale and quinoa.
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Using retirement savings to pay for college could be a "slippery slope" and create a bigger financial issue in the long term, Jeannette Bajalia, president of Petros Financial, tells CNBC Make It. She says 401(k) balances are already "too low" for many people to enjoy a "successful" retirement.
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It also sets a precedent in which Apple might feel obligated to provide any government around the world the same tools which it provides to one government, or to begin to pick and choose which governments and jurisdictions' requests it will honor, which is itself a slippery slope.
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The trouble is that, as thesis statements go, the message of "Smithereens" is both redundant and a little weak; it ultimately feels like a sophomoric, slippery slope argument, with little nuance beyond "social media is bad," unlikely to edify anyone who's been following news of the tech world lately.
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"West agreed with Everson that the poo has got to go and they both argued that this is the beginning of a slippery slope in which Unicode will have to provide options "such as CRYING PILE OF POO, PILE OF POO WITH LOOK OF TRIUMPH, PILE OF POO SCREAMING IN FEAR.
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But now that the FBI's litigation against Apple has been dropped, Comey hopes that there will be less emotion involved in the encryption conversation, which he said reminds him of the rhetoric often heard in the gun debate by "absolutists" and those arguing the "slippery slope"-angle on both sides.
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Iran's state power "therefore feels that it has to reassure its main constituents that dealing with the 'devil' does not change the devil, or Iran's relations with it, and the system is not on the verge of a slippery slope of compromises that would end in its unraveling," Vaez said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A declaration to end the 1950-53 Korea War could be a "slippery slope" to questioning the need for the U.S. troop presence in South Korea, the deputy head of the U.N. Command overseeing the Korean armistice said on Friday, ahead of new talks between Washington and Pyongyang.
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The recall may be cancelled altogether if the automaker proves that the inflators in question are safe by then, according to the AP. GM's request to delay its recalls drew the ire of Senate Democrats, who worried it would be a slippery slope and questioned whether it would be safe.
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"Our biggest challenge is overcoming Reefer Madness propaganda and helping legislators understand that legalizing medical cannabis does not necessarily put Utah on a 'slippery slope' toward recreational," says Connor Boyack, a supporter of SB 73 and president of the Libertas Institute, a libertarian think tank based out of Lehi, Utah.
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They're scared that PETA might be able to convince people that animals are more than just things to possess, and from there the slippery slope of animal rights would begin to glimmer on the horizon, undoing a generation's worth of work to hide the horrors of industrial food production from consumers.
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The marginal move over the limits "might not be a big deal,'' said Philip H. Gordon, a former State Department official now at the Council on Foreign Relations, "but exiting the nuclear deal is a big deal because it's a slippery slope toward not having any of those constraints at all.
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When Trump says that raising the age limit to buy a gun lacks political support, what he is really saying is that it lacks the NRA's support -- and those within his base who view any sort of infringement on 2nd Amendment rights as beginning down a slippery slope to gun seizure.
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We must remember the slippery slope from the use of techniques for collecting personal information in order to offer products and services, and the use of the very same techniques to influence our thoughts, creates an autonomy trap about beliefs, and undermines our trust in democratic institutions — in brief, manipulates elections.
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Critics like Alison Bateman-House, a compassionate use expert at New York University Langone Medical Center's division of medical ethics, worry the current legislative focus on right to try is creating a "slippery slope" that diminishes the FDA's regulatory control altogether without actually making access to experimental drugs any easier.
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Of course, once the FAA leads us out onto this slippery slope, there's no telling where they'll take it," he wrote, adding that "Children all over America who receive hobby aircraft for Christmas will be unlawfully required to navigate a federal regulatory website, patently prohibited by Congress, prior to using their new acquisitions.
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Mario Diaz-BalartMario Rafael Diaz-BalartThe 9 House Republicans who support background checks House passes temporary immigration protections for Venezuelans House fails to pass temporary immigration protections for Venezuelans MORE (R-Fla.), who called King's remarks "regrettable," suggested it could be a slippery slope for comments that weren't made on the House floor.
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The concern is that such research, no matter how well-intentioned, is located on a slippery slope that leads to the kinds of pseudoscientific arguments about biological difference that were used in the past to try to justify the slave trade, the eugenics movement and the Nazis' murder of six million Jews.
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Those on the left believe that it will prove to be a "slippery slope" towards another open-ended military engagement in the Middle East, while others on the right maintain that the current U.S. footprint is inadequate for achieving the stated U.S. objectives of preventing the resurgence of ISIS and curtailing Iran.
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" One anonymous pro-SESTA lobbyist explicitly embraced this slippery slope, telling The Hill, "There's a common theme here: You look the other way when it comes to sex trafficking, you look the other way when it comes to fake news, you look the other way when it comes to fake political advertisements.
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"Such a move would signal a race to the bottom of the slippery slope that has haunted privacy advocates: A world where companies can be forced to sign code developed by the government to facilitate surveillance," Julian Sanchez, a surveillance expert and fellow at the Cato Institute, wrote in a blog post on Thursday.
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At the same unhinged press conference in which Donald Trump again blamed both sides for the deadly violence in Charlottesville last weekend, he also painted a picture of a slippery slope where those fighting for the removal of Confederate statues today might be destroying tributes to more mainstream slave-owning icons like George Washington tomorrow.
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" Dr. Charles E. Argoff, president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine Foundation, said "we are going down a very bad slippery slope if we allow payers to only make decisions solely on financial grounds and don't have any checks and balances on the insurance world's ability to basically dictate what happens to them medically.
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Though Hawaii has long been a blue state, its lawmakers are often more conservative, and had long been cagey about the idea of setting up a system for medical dispensaries, out of a fear that it would be a slippery slope to full blown legalization, in a state that has struggled with drug abuse.
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Moser's review spiraled into the absurd when he suggested that if translators "look to the whole" — as Briggs, citing the translator Helen Lowe-Porter, proposes — it might be a slippery slope from a lack of attention to detail in translation to a degradation of "standards" in fields as far removed as aviation and dentistry.
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Perhaps he would have had a better game if he just went by his regular routine (Carter played all 48 minutes in Game 7, shooting 6-for-18 from the field and finishing with 20 points), but conflating Vince's decision to attend his graduation with the result of the game seems like a slippery slope, too.
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He argued that while exceptions exist in situations where "market-distorting monopoly power" threaten to limit the availability of content to consumers, the FCC did not bother to prove that was the case, and warned of a slippery slope if regulators were allowed to impose rules without demonstrating so: Consider the implications if the law were otherwise.
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But I don't think this "slippery slope" is an argument against assisted dying in its own right, because actually it alarms me far less than the idea of some authority, however well intentioned, trying to define a category of lives that may no longer be worth living, for whom and only for whom assisted dying should be available.
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" And from there it's a slippery slope into the vicious cycle of pimples and cover-up, using more and more makeup and making your skin even worse in the process, which is why Dobrev says, "I go to Kate Somerville and get a facial once a month to get all that makeup out, and I use their whole line.
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The widely read Drudge Report picked up Politico's story as its top link on Tuesday, revising the headline with literal scare quotes for mentally ill, implying the kind of slippery slope IBD imagined: "Doctors can report 'mentally ill' patients to FBI under new Obama rule..." We were off to the races: The reporting even misled Rep.
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The U.S. economy has been falling short of the Fed's 2%-a-year inflation goal, and policymakers are worried that slipping consumer and business expectations of price hikes could lead to a slippery slope of less spending, tamer growth and a greater likelihood that rates will fall back near 0% from their current, 2.25%-2.50% target.
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The petition to allow female superiors general a synod vote was a "strategic" move toward their more equal participation in church matters, Ms. McElwee said, adding that she realized it confirmed the "ultimate fear" of some clerics who see it as a step down a "slippery slope that could eventually lead to women's ordination" as priests.
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H. R. McMaster, the national security adviser, over Mr. Trump's aides, including his chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, who had warned that sending more troops was a slippery slope toward nation building, anathema to nationalists like him who reject both the interventionist neoconservatives of the George W. Bush administration and the limited war fought by Mr. Obama.
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If private contracts between individuals are suddenly criminalized — and if the attorney-client privilege of those involved in drafting them aren't held sacred — then every businessman, politician and private citizen should be concerned, as we are heading down a slippery slope where contract law in America will no longer exist and neither will our civilized society.
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When those from dominant groups or in positions of campus authority insist that this is not real harm because it's not physical violence, or when First Amendment fundamentalists claim that any constraint on speech is a step on the slippery slope toward tyranny, we can detect the ideology of market deregulation at the heart of free speech dogmatism.
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The findings of several trade reviews the executive branch has ordered will soon clarify the limits of the president's powers in trade — particularly the ability to cut down on steel and aluminum imports for the purpose of protecting national security, a tactic that could prove a slippery slope if other countries respond to such moves in kind.
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Furthermore, supporters of the federal government's side in this case argue there's a slippery slope: Allow the states to sue the government over a policy they don't like, as long as they can show that it costs the state something (even if that cost is recouped), and the courts will be clogged with lawsuits left and right.
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The synod's most contentious issue has been whether elderly married men could be ordained as priests only in the Amazon to say Mass in the vast region because of the shortage of priests.. Conservatives oppose the proposal, saying it would be a slippery slope leading to the end of the tradition of celibacy in the rest of the 1.3 billion-member Church.
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While the letter does not explain why the RC allegedly behaved in such a way, the "Slippery Slope" report observes that the UN country team led by the RC pursued a strategy that valued quiet diplomacy and the belief that "development investment itself will reduce tensions" in Rakhine state, an approach that drew criticism from other agencies in the organization.
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Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzGOP strategist predicts Biden will win nomination, cites fundraising strength 22019 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 The Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters MORE (Texas) Cruz said he's still weighing the administration's arguments, but has voiced concerns that Trump's actions set up a "slippery slope" for future presidents. Sen.
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Halaby's precisely rendered diagonal bars and planes couldn't be farther from Nozkowski's freewheeling improvisations, but they do discharge a sense of dislocation and the tragic in the predominance of black in two of the images, and the lack of a vertical or horizontal anchor in all three — a compositional slippery slope that threatens to cast us into an emotional free fall.
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There are still some slippery slope arguments and legal complications, but they pale in comparison to the existential threat faced by those who lost their jobs and have been unable to find new ones (if the PE firms choose to only focus on those folks, or on those who made below a certain income level, that's a legit discussion to have).
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"I have never believed that a significant part of the N.C.A.A.'s governance and membership was comfortable with the N.C.A.A. coming in and saying, 'We are going to determine what is an appropriate academic arrangement for athletes,' because of the slippery slope it goes down," said Tyrone P. Thomas, a lawyer at Mintz Levin who advises colleges and universities on N.C.A.A. matters.
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Large technology companies have a history of claiming a lack of responsibility for the impact of online information, either because of the existence of free speech laws, because they rightly worry that the slippery slope of moderating some dangerous content could lead to responsibility for moderating much more, or because they have received harsh criticism for banning content deemed political.
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Whether you feel that Cook may have responded in too exaggerated of a fashion to the FBI's request, or believe his concern — and that of additional reports — that that this is a slippery slope into undermining privacy regardless of the reason, the underlying point remains the same: A true leader in the digital era has to be one who takes the fight directly into the public arena.
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The report does mention the emergence of "academic transhumanism" in the gene editing debate, and in the enhancement chapter reiterates a number of the traditional arguments against the biolibertatian, and transhumanist positions, including: the slippery slope into an "unnatural" society where some members of the species are edited and others aren't, the issue of eugenics, and the philosophical debate that the parent-child relationship would be altered.
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Ultimately, perhaps that was the most lasting story of the shows: Not the continued embrace of the 1980s and '90s (yawn), or yet another return of boho deluxe in patchwork and fringe (easy), or the growing fascination with gender (sometimes thought-provoking, sometimes trite), but rather the re-emergence of design as a core value; the clawing back up the slippery slope of casual.
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The dismal reading on the economy, coupled with the U.S. Federal Reserve's "patient" policy approach have led markets to fully price in at least one RBA rate cut by August.. Macquarie economist Justin Fobo said a rate cut is needed to stimulate the economy as there were no downside risks to easing policy with the housing market already on a slippery slope and banks tightening lending standards.
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"Facebook may not be directly responsible for propping up Hun Sen, but by having a platform that can be easily manipulated for political purposes — and the general lack of transparency in how such issues are handled — shows the slippery slope of when public figures use social media spaces for their own self-serving purposes," Champa Patel, head of the Asia programme at London-based think tank Chatham House, told VICE News.
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Here's the thing: At this middle stage of my life, I can easily make out the slippery slope where two a day becomes three; when you split a bottle of wine and open another; when you go out for a special event and three drinks doesn't do much because you've built up a tolerance and it takes four or even five drinks to achieve a celebratory state of inebriation.
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If corporations can invoke "free speech" as a way to conceal relevant information about allegedly false statements — if they can effectively create immunity from investigation by playing a constitutional trump card — then we are on a slippery slope to the civic incapacity and relative weakness in both rule of law and economic growth that characterizes Russia and other regimes that collapse the distinction between economic and political power.
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"Facebook may not be directly responsible for propping up Hun Sen, but by having a platform that can be easily manipulated for political purposes — and the general lack of transparency in how such issues are handled — shows the slippery slope of when public figures use social media spaces for their own self-serving purposes," Champa Patel, head of the Asia program at London-based think tank Chatham House, told VICE News.
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For most Americans however, the president's lack of accountability, his apparent belief that he and his cabinet are above the law, the increasing evidence of his ties to Russia, and his rampant conflicts of interest constitute an assault on the core values of American democracy and a real threat to self-governance, many of which are detailed in a new report from Common Cause entitled Putin, Trump, and Democracy's Slippery Slope Toward Oligarchy.
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I felt then and still feel now that Gale made some pretty valid points about the need for radical systemic disruption coming from outside the system, and seeing the ham-fisted way Collins not only exploded the ship (sorry) but made Gale himself the bearer of a needlessly ironic, overly Shakespearean moral about how violent protest is an inherently immoral slippery slope and "both sides made some bad points" was so deeply infuriating to me.
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"We are heading down a slippery slope where you are going to end up balkanizing (information technology), where U.S. companies will only be able to sell software to parts of Europe," said Curtis Dukes, a former head of cyber defense at the National Security Agency now with the non-profit Center for Internet Security, "and Russia won't be able to sell products in the U.S." Additional reporting by Jack Stubbs in Moscow; Editing by Paul Thomasch
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The pizza conglomerate, having money and in a field that has famously fought against regulation of things such as calorie counts on menus, fought this interpretation of the ADA, arguing that the law's definition of a "public accommodation" should not include digital platforms such as websites and mobile applications, and that it creates a slippery slope where all sorts of websites, big and small, could run into legal issues if accessibility wasn't part of the master plan.
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Mark ZuckerbergMark Elliot ZuckerbergFacebook users in lawsuit say company failed to warn them of known risks before 2018 breach Social media never intended to be in the news business — but just wait till AI takes over Facebook exploring deals with media outlets for news section: report MORE, earnestly I believe, started down this slippery slope a few months ago and announced he is hiring 10,000 additional folks whose job it will be to keep the platform safe and secure.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE has argued against removing statues and monuments of Confederate figures, claiming that taking them down would create a slippery slope leading to the removal of memorials to Founding Fathers like George Washington or Thomas Jefferson.
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Both men denied reports that the cabinet study has ever been held in the West Wing.) The Drollingers are careful to distinguish between their teachings and their politics, but one often bears on the other, on issues like marriage (men lead, women submit), homosexuality ("an abomination" and "illegitimate in God's eyes"), abortion (a slippery slope to infanticide), climate change (a radical belief promoted by "secular fad theorists") and family separation at the Southern border (an appropriate punishment for "illegal immigrants").
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Look, everybody wants to eliminate the suffering of these genetic diseases, but there are all sorts of unintended consequences that come along with us because if you can change the DNA in order to eliminate diseases, you can also change the DNA to make people better athletes, to make them more intelligent, to make them more attractive and all of a sudden you get down on the slippery slope of this genetically altered designer babies where parents are choosing what attributes they want for their children.
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When posed a similar question at a CNN town hall in April and on other occasions, Sanders has argued that stripping any American of their voting rights, no matter the cause, creates a slippery slope that plays into the hands of Republican governors who have sought to restrict the franchise with laws like voter ID. Swalwell also broke from the party's left by hedging on the implementation of Medicare for all as the legislation is currently written, saying he agrees with "90%" of the bill but thinks people should be allowed to choose private insurance.
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Senator Mike EnziMichael (Mike) Bradley EnziThe 23 Republicans who opposed Trump-backed budget deal On The Money: Fed poised to give Trump boost with rate cut | Parties unable to reach deal in Trump tax return lawsuit | New York opens investigation into Capital One data breach Outgoing Senate Budget chair unveils plans to replace Budget Committee MORE (R–Wyo.) calls the idea of helping out a single pension fund a "dangerously slippery slope" — an interesting choice of words to a generation of middle class workers watching their version of the American dream slipping away.
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