(n.) A kind of light shoe, which may be slipped on with ease, and worn in undress; a slipshoe.
(n.) A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
(n.) A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
(n.) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and afford a means of adjustment; -- also called shoe, and gib.
(a.) Slippery.
Example Sentences:
(1) But two of the three judges who subsequently considered the issue said: “We are also of the opinion that there was no basis for the primary judge to conclude that Brough was part of any combination with anyone in respect to the commencement of these proceedings with the predominant purpose of damaging Slipper in the way alleged or at all.” Brough said Dreyfus should look at the federal court’s findings on 27 April 2014 – which appeared to be a reference to the decision handed down on 27 February 2014.
(2) In fact, Slipper's role as a senior detective in the Metropolitan police was much more significant over the years than that one incident, which led to both a book and a television film, might indicate.
(3) Dreyfus asked directly whether Brough agreed to obtain unauthorised copies of the Slipper’s diary for a journalist, and whether as a matter of government policy the minister now gave unauthorised copies of other documents to journalists.
(4) Mal Brough has vowed to stare down calls to resign over his role in the downfall of the former speaker Peter Slipper as the Labor party seeks to build pressure on Malcolm Turnbull for backing the special minister of state.
(5) Shonda auditioned everyone and their mother, because for African American actresses this was the glass slipper – so she let everyone try it on."
(6) On Tuesday, Brough told parliament the interview with 60 Minutes, which was aired in 2014 and featured an admission from Brough that he had asked former staffer James Ashby to procure Slipper’s diary, was selectively edited.
(7) But he said: “I don’t think you should call for the resignation of the Speaker lightly.” The former Speaker Peter Slipper was ordered to pay back $954 worth of expenses after a court found he had misused his Cabcharge allowance to visit Canberra wineries.
(8) In Peter Slipper’s case, he has paid back more than $14,000 under the Minchin protocol .
(9) The archaeologists had to wear slippers to preserve the site which, at the bottom of a two-metre trench, picked up much damp.
(10) Dreyfus asked the same question as Hayes: “Did you ask James Ashby to procure copies of Peter Slipper’s diary for you?” “No,” Brough said.
(11) It never does | Lenore Taylor Read more Jamie Briggs resigned as the minister for cities and the built environment after “inappropriate” conduct towards a staffer during an official visit to Hong Kong and Mal Brough stood aside as special minister of state pending a police investigation into his alleged role in the downfall of Peter Slipper.
(12) In 2014 a magistrate convicted Slipper of dishonestly causing a risk of loss to the commonwealth and ordered him to repay the $954.
(13) Peter Slipper's resignation followed a heated debate in parliament during which the prime minister, Julia Gillard , and the conservative opposition leader, Tony Abbott, traded insults over the use of misogynistic language in politics.
(14) Mal Brough faces fresh parliamentary pressure over his role in the downfall of the former speaker Peter Slipper , after his attempt to walk away from a key admission was undermined by 60 Minutes releasing the unedited interview exchange.
(15) The prosecution also had to exclude the possibility that the appellant had determined to conduct meetings about parliamentary business with his staff member at a location other than Parliament House for reasons which he considered adequate.” Comment has been sought from Slipper, who served as the federal MP for the Queensland seat of Fisher from 1993 to 2013 and became embroiled in controversy in his final term in office.
(16) Tales from the Golden Slipper is at the Orkney Arts Theatre , Kirkwall, on Friday and Saturday, and at Stenness School on June 29.
(17) He wears clumpy black shoes instead of the custom-made red slippers favoured by his predecessor, Benedict; refuses to live in the magnificently decorated papal apartments, and drives himself around the city state in a 1984 Renault 4 of the sort favoured by Italian smallholders.
(18) James Ashby’s case against Peter Slipper and the Commonwealth, and the associated infusion of media and political involvement, would have to be one of the grubbiest assaults on a government in recent memory.
(19) The member for Fisher [Brough] stated to me that we needed to destroy Peter Slipper and he had all the evidence to put Peter Slipper away for a very long time.
(20) It transpires they are antique slippers used in the foot-binding process to which Chinese women were subjected: "I make art out of them.
Slippery
Definition:
(a.) Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery.
(a.) Not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery promise.
(1) We should be grateful the School Food Trust has established this now, before we end up falling down a slippery slope back towards the dreaded Turkey Twizzler that Jamie Oliver campaigned to banish," he added.
(2) Confronted on that slipperiness in an interview this morning with Bloomberg, Ryan said ending special-interest tax breaks would make up for lost revenue, and that the Tax Policy Center study did not take economic growth effects into account.
(3) In association with the watery amniotic fluid of llamas, the epidermal membrane is slippery, facilitating delivery of the fetus.
(4) That formula goes: “Now is not the time.” This is another of those May constructions that superficially sound definitive, but are really quite slippery.
(5) I would favour it, others wouldn't, but it's a new discussion on another law, not a slippery slide.
(6) At this point, it is clear we are standing on a slippery slope,” he said, adding that fresh lethal attacks could “release violent energies that the two sides have generally managed to keep on a low flame over the past decade”.
(7) It is shown that the size of the slippery context effect depends on the frequency difference between the tones: Small frequency differences (less than a critical bandwidth) produced essentially no slippery effect; much larger differences produced substantial effects.
(8) These led to the formation of rapid slippery and thready pulse.
(9) ); greases up to wealth and power and lets the poor go to hell; he is ruthless, mendacious, slippery and shameless.
(10) Effectively, we are on a slippery slope now, and ignoring this problem won't make it go away.
(11) Analysis of the "slippery site" suggests that a low probability of unpairing of the aminoacyl-tRNA from the 0-frame codon at the ribosomal A site reduces the efficiency of frameshifting more than the reluctance of a given tRNA to have its wobble base mispaired.
(12) Even the ones who you think are American are probably Canadian.” In its profile of Whishaw, the New York Times noted how, as an actor, he rejects the idea of type and has a “slippery way of inhabiting heroes and antiheroes alike, of seducing women and men on screen and on stage with equal ease”.
(13) The crew tried pulling the exhausted survivors aboard, but they were naked and their arms and legs covered in slippery diesel.
(14) Interestingly, honest individuals were initially shielded from taking antisocial decisions – but, with time, even they slid down the slippery, corrupting slope of power.
(15) All that slippery chocolate makes it almost impossible for them to stand erect under the studio lights.
(16) How Spurs craved someone similarly streetwise 7 Tottenham Hotspur Hugo Lloris Wrongfooted by deflections for both Chelsea goals, with the reality he did well to deny Cahill and Fàbregas scant consolation 6 Kyle Walker Eager to push on down the flank but exposed by Hazard’s slippery running and not tight enough to Costa at Chelsea’s second 5 Chelsea old guard triumph but Spurs academy talent point to future | David Hytner Read more Eric Dier Riled by Costa from the moment they clashed five minutes in.
(17) Such as: “Ted Cruz sent shockwaves through the Republican Party today when he announced he would endorse Donald Trump for President, but only if the GOP nominee would publicly support a ban on masturbation , (saying) without ‘swift action … the country was doomed to slide down a slippery slope of debauchery and self-satisfaction’.” Snopes sourced this to a site that mimicked ABC News to lure clicks to an underlying malware site, generating advertising revenue.
(18) Or they have settled for grilling him as a way of getting at the slippery Cameron.
(19) Weidmann sees this as playing politics – unwarranted, dangerous, the slippery slope.
(20) The continued development of smaller deflated balloon profiles with slippery surfaces and better power transmission characteristics will undoubtedly make the vigorous techniques mentioned above less necessary to master in the future.