slackening

Du Plessis blamed the government's transformation policy for what he described as a slackening of the country's security forces

ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

Du Plessis blamed the government's transformation policy for what he described as a slackening of the country's security forces

ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

He felt the train slackening speed, and peered again through the misty window.

THE SEA FARMER 2010

The struggle has caught hold along the whole line and enthusiasm for the lofty aim runs so high that a slackening is no longer to be feared.

Robert Koch - Nobel Lecture 1967

He felt the train slackening speed, and peered again through the misty window.

The Sea Farmer 1914

She had gone on for about a mile, and it was growing dark, and her horse was again slackening his pace, when she thought she heard the sound of another horse's hoofs behind her.

The Hidden Hand 1888

QUESTION: Did the prime minister mention anything about the -- did he use the word "slackening," that the U.S. wasn't prepared for this kind of war?

CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2001 2001

Even though data suggests a "slackening" of sales, retailers such as Wal-Mart, Tesco are expanding in China.

The Business of Fashion 2009

Mike Kenny's adaptation, playing pick-and-mix with the original, pads some scenes, slashes others, slowing the pace and slackening dramatic tensions.

Peter Pan – review 2011

Now he studied the sea to windward for signs of the wind slackening or freshening, now the Macedonia; and again, his eyes roved over every sail, and he gave commands to slack a sheet here a trifle, to come in on one there a trifle, till he was drawing out of the Ghost the last bit of speed she possessed.

Chapter 25 2010