Slid out on us.

Sami slid into a coma.

Well, she's slid. She's married the uncle.

He slid back again into his earlier position.

He started to rise and then suddenly slid back down.

He had slid from the shadows and was gazing gravely at the picture.

With cheerful optimism our little Columbus descended, then stopped, stepped, slipped and slid.

At first he slid down a few times on the smooth chest of drawers.

Between September 1906 and March 1907, the stock market slid, losing 7.7 of its capitalization.

The car slid on the gravel and came to a halt, front wheels over the edge.

I slid a piece of paper under the cup, grabbed the wriggling cockroach and dumped it in the toilet.

The same sort of thing Carnegie and Rockefeller and all these coves do, you know. I slid for the door.

Some even lost the land they had lived upon for generations the top soil simply slid away, leaving behind hard rock and rubble.

This period of relative stability and prosperity ended in 1911, when revolution broke out and the country slid once again into disorder and debt.

We have seen all too clearly in the past that countries under stress or recovering from conflict have slid back into anarchy and failure.

This can lead to instances where rockets have landed on soft ground such as snow and eventually slid to a halt in an armed condition.

Unfortunately, as a result of the private sector deleveraging and an increase in household savings, the US economy, driven by debt and consumption, slid into recession.

I was wearing sneakers, so I took advantage of the others busyness and lifted the sole of one shoe and carefully slid one AlHambra cigarette under there more about this later.

Because Nelson Mandela, as he took over power as the first democratically elected president of South Africa, faced a situation of a country that could have slid into the abyss of chaos.

As the world struggles to emerge from the economic near collapse of last fall, there is one sub group that has slid below the waterline in record numbers formerly middle class women.

Because Nelson Mandela, as he took over power as the first democratically elected president of South Africa, faced a situation of a country that could have slid into the abyss of chaos.

An enormous mass of mud and vegetation slid into numerous rivers, forming gigantic dikes, which later succumbed to the force of the pent up waters. Dozens of tremendous avalanches swept away towns and villages.

Under the plans, an arch shaped confinement with a height of 100 metres and a span of 250 metres will be assembled in a safe area near the site and eventually slid across the old sarcophagus.

Indeed, among the World Bank s six Governance Indicators, China s score on the Rule of Law index has also slid in recent years, from 0.28 in 1998 to 0.47 in 2005, when China ranked 124th out of 208 countries in this category.

Set in the near future, the story unfolds against the background of a US that has slid into financial ruin and single party dictatorship, and that finds itself embroiled in yet another pointless foreign military adventure this time in Venezuela.

There, far from the village street, and except at very long intervals, from the jingle of sleigh bells, I slid and skated, as in a vast moose yard well trodden, overhung by oak woods and solemn pines bent down with snow or bristling with icicles.

At last I slid off into a light doze, and had pretty nearly made a good offing towards the land of Nod, when I heard a heavy footfall in the passage, and saw a glimmer of light come into the room from under the door.

So, at 16 minutes what I did is I slid my feet out because I knew that if I did go out, if I did have a heart attack, they'd have to jump into the binding and take my feet out before pulling me up.

So, at 16 minutes what I did is I slid my feet out because I knew that if I did go out, if I did have a heart attack, they'd have to jump into the binding and take my feet out before pulling me up. So, I was really nervous.

So I found a seat and slid into my seat, and I don't think I could actually look up for a few minutes, and in fact I think it wasn't until we got to the next station that I looked up and I was expecting people to be staring at me or laughing at me, but to my surprise, no one was even looking at me.

So I brought my whole cabinet, and we met with all of the pooh bahs of little Greenville the mayor, the city manager, the head of the community college and we basically emptied our pockets and put all of our chips on the table, incentives, you name it, to convince Electrolux to stay, and as we made our pile of chips, we slid them across the table to the management of Electrolux.