Due to a drop in sponsorship money the team slipped backwards.

It was now a constant battle just to hold balance, just to keep from slipping backwards.

"I figured this was the way to insure the institution's growth and not slip backwards," she said.

"Today was a day that we slipped backwards," said one top Democratic aide.

The car, with the children inside, slipped backwards into the Seine.

Like a stone we slipped backwards towards the ocean bed which here lay 5,000 metres below.

"If anything, I'm afraid we are slipping backwards," a senior American official here said today.

Scents, more than anything else, are evocative of memory; everything slipped backwards in time.

How did a Labour government let inequality slip backwards in those golden years?

However, the remaining races saw the team slipping backwards and often struggling to score points.