downward slide
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdownwardandslide
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downward
adjective
uk/ˈdaʊn.wəd/us/ˈdaʊn.wɚd/
moving towards a ...
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slide
noun
uk/slaɪd/us/slaɪd/
a sudden movement of a large mass of mud (= wet earth) or rock down ...
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(Definition ofdownwardandslidefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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At the moment, there are no indications that thedownwardslidecould be halted.
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Partly as a consequence of dysfunctional institutions, the economy entered into decline from the mid-1960s, adownwardslidethat accelerated in the 1970s.
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Note that thedownwardslideappears to start in the mid 1890s, and that it was preceded by a huge 70-year improvement in the terms of trade.
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Over-use and poor management of the integration of biodiversity with other uses will result in the samedownwardslidethat characterises many of the regions today.
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The 'slippery slope' arguments suggest that, once a practice has become permissible, related standards may be lowered more broadly with adownwardslideinto what was previously considered unacceptable.
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This is evident in thedownwardslideof new building.
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So we seem to have checked thedownwardslidefrom which we have been suffering in recent years.
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Ourdownwardslidehas been more precipitious and more disastrous than theirs—it is the biggest of the lot.
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That firm has resisted thedownwardslidein the machine tool industry and has developed computer-controlled machining centres very successfully.
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It is important that we work to halt thedownwardslideand get the proportion up again.
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But cash alone could not and cannot halt the railways'downwardslide.
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The options are narrowing day by day, and, unless the summit can reverse thatdownwardslideto protectionism, where shall we find our markets?
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If that is the condition of things during a boom, there will be a very grave problem when the inevitabledownwardslidein industry comes.
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There is at present adownwardslidein social services and in the health service.
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We should be in the middle of thedownwardslidewhich had arisen from policies that had been wrongly pursued.
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What will be the next cough in thedownwardslideof sterling?
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The purpose of intervention needs to be to assist the bereaved to come to terms with what has happened and to help them avoid adownwardslideinto obsession.
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Once a person gets on the downward slope, it is all very well to have sufficient police to grab a man by the collar and stop hisdownwardslide.
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There is not the slightest indication in their programme of anything whatever which will stop this terribledownwardslide, with national bankruptcy at the bottom of it.
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Circulation of the paper surpassed the 16,000 mark in 1927 before entering a longdownwardslide.
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