Afghanistan is slipping from control.

My glasses keep slipping down my nose.

Indeed, the European market is already slipping away.

And Japan is already slipping back into recession because of the earthquake.

Two years on, success seems to be slipping through Peña Nieto s hands.

According to news reports, Mubarak is slipping in and out of consciousness.

Growth will slow, with Europe and or America possibly even slipping back into recession.

For all of China s long term structural problems, it is not exactly slipping into recession.

At that point, the government realized that its democratic opening was slipping out of its control.

We know it s not fair, she says sharply, her inflection slipping into a North Korean accent.

Only 12 of the world s population lives in the West, and power is slipping steadily away from it.

The remittances of Italian seasonal laborers in Argentina prevented backward rural villages in southern Italy from slipping into grinding poverty.

Slipping past the media circus and apparently departing in a taxi, Snowden managed to keep his ultimate destination a secret.

On 13 June 2006, Airbus announced a second delay, with the delivery schedule slipping an additional six to seven months.

A unique opportunity to strengthen the world s financial infrastructure and increase economic efficiency for many years to come could be slipping away.

Imagine that you are in a family affected by AIDS, your breadwinner received a death warrant, and you watched this person slipping away.

Imagine that you are in a family affected by AIDS, your breadwinner received a death warrant, and you watched this person slipping away.

Her assault on excessively powerful trade unions, moreover, made Britain governable, at a time when the country seemed to be slipping into drift and disorder.

Anna smiled, as one smiles at the weaknesses of people one loves, and slipping her hand under his arm walked with him to the study door.

If US defense innovation continues to erode, not only will America s defense capabilities suffer the country will also risk slipping in terms of commercial innovation and competitiveness.

Most alarmingly, Chechen rebels enjoyed considerable freedom of operation in Georgia, creating supply bases on its territory and receiving medical help in Georgian hospitals before slipping back into Russia.

That is something to think about as this decade draws to a close and as the chance for humanity to take another momentous leap forward appears to be slipping away.

As the Beijing Olympics approach, what the Chinese seem to want most that the Games herald China s return as a leader among nations appears close to slipping from their grasp.

The economy was careening like a rudderless ship, and the sharp operators who had duped us into getting on board call them the 1 were slipping away in the only lifeboats.

Indications that Trichet s communicative skills were slipping already had become evident last September, when the Governing Council could not follow through with the rate increase the ECB president had promised the previous month.

The commercial shows a beautiful nude woman, posing in front of her mirror, taking pleasure in slipping on sexy black panties and black stockings with garters before covering up in a black burqa.

Regretfully, it must be acknowledged that Washington is slipping ever deeper into the primitive ideologically driven clichés of the Cold War era, which are entirely detached from reality , a statement from the Russian foreign policy establishment reads.

I don t know you, and I can t say I know Addis, but I ve moved through those rain soaked streets, slipping into warm cafes to meet with journalists turned bird watchers, trying to evade careers pocked with fear and anxiety.

Not only is he young and inexperienced, but his aunt, Kim Kyong hui, Kim Jong il s sister and the wife of the second ranking figure in North Korea s hierarchy, Chang Song taek, may balk at power slipping through her fingers.

And then, you begin to consciously and deliberately walk the bridge slipping the rubber band that pulls you back to your prejudices, your story, your identity, who you think you are, your feelings, your emotions, whatever it is in your world.

If it turns out that girls at risk of not receiving all three doses of the HPV vaccine are also those with an elevated risk of being infected and missing cervical screenings as adults, they may be slipping through not one but two nets.

According to those behind the experiment, however, the trackers along with anything else one tends to flush down the toilet in Novoye Devyatkino never made it underground to the sewers they spilled into the streams directly outside, without slipping through so much as a net.

But the louder he spoke the lower she drooped her once proud, bright, but now dishonoured head, and she writhed, slipping down from the sofa on which she sat to the floor at his feet. She would have fallen on the carpet if he had not held her.

It is only 250 metres to the top of the volcano, which rises to 2,386 metres above sea level, but the exhausted porters take over 40 minutes to get there, at snail's pace, keeping their balance and measuring their steps carefully to avoid slipping and falling over the precipice.

Let s hope that this time there is more than talk. If US and Chinese policymakers instead surrender to the temptation of slipping back to the pre crisis imbalances, the roots of the next crisis will grow like bamboo. And that would not be good news for the US and China, or anyone else.

Let s hope that this time there is more than talk. If US and Chinese policymakers instead surrender to the temptation of slipping back to the pre crisis imbalances, the roots of the next crisis will grow like bamboo.  And that would not be good news for the US and China, or anyone else.