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One of the most common arguments used by "fundamentalists" or whatever one may wish to call those who claim to accept the Bible as inerrant and that it is all to be accepted and believed is that rejecting their view of the Bible puts one on a "slippery slope" down which one will inevitably slide to liberalism, unbelief, or whatever horrific things are said to lie at the slope's bottom.

There Is No Slippery Slope James F. McGrath 2010

There was a web of fissures on the walls of his house, 50 feet from the slope's edge.

This Town Is Going Down, and Strawberries Share the Blame 2010

At the slope's top was a flimsy grate with light faintly shining through.

Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

"As for them telling you're here, they won't need ears, if they've eyes in their heads; the slope's half mud outside, and the prints of all your feet show clear."

Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

The line was two ranks deep, no more, and in places the ridge seemed empty where the Battalions had been forced to shrink into four ranks as a precaution against the cavalry that still lurked in the smoke that drifted at the slope's foot.

Sharpe's Waterloo Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1990

Keen compound eyes that covered most of his head showed him the continental slope's dark rampart along the northern horizon: the brink of Europe punctuated by a single towering cloud that marked the cascade of the Rhone River, pouring down a vast slope of sediment into the nearly waterless Mediterranean Basin of Pliocene Earth that was called the Empty Sea.

The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981

He had liked the white cloths bleaching on the grass, and the song the lark in the sky twirled like a lad throwing and catching a coin, and the spinney on the field's slope's heights, where the tide of spring broke in a green surf of budding undergrowth at the feet of black bare trees.

The Judge Rebecca West 1937

In his downhill run, Feuz soared into the air for about 80 yards off the Rosa Khutor slope's biggest jump, landing outside the blue paint that outlines the course.

SI.com 2012

But she questioned the synthetic slope's summertime teen appeal.

StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

To add insult to this injury, a dumb timber fence - comically incongruous in the urban setting and just plain wrong in the context of the park's original style - has been installed around the slope's base, making it look like a pioneer farm or perhaps, a children's petting zoo.

Thestar.com - Home Page Karen von Hahn 2011