The percentage of employed residents also declined to 65.2 last month, continuing a gradual slide that began three months ago.

The movies also detail Ivan's gradual slide into suspicion and paranoia.

"Even if you work out, you are still on a gradual slide."

I have seen the gradual slide, but you return to see us at the bottom of our fortunes.

Then it began a gradual slide that steepened after 1948 and hit bottom in 1952.

Underlying this option - the most likely of the three - is a gradual slide into chaos.

In music, portamento is a gradual slide from one note to another.

It hovered there, and then took another gradual slide to four-seventy.

This past week, some players have privately expressed concern about the team's gradual slide back to the days of dumping the ball into Ewing's hands.

Was this his way of warning her off the uncomfortable subject of Russia's gradual slide back to a police state?