0 present participle of slacken --
We are not slackening the medical criteria; we are not changing them in any way.
Is there not something rather cruel about the idea of slackening the medical criteria, while at the same time introducing means-testing for incapacity benefits?
We certainly do not mean any slackening of political confrontation nor do we mean any lowering of military preparation.
It is perfectly true that since the war there has been a general slackening in provision of this character.
Any slackening in the programme today is not likely to induce the operatives to pull their full weight.
We therefore view with considerable anxiety the growing signs of a possible slackening in expansion by the coming autumn or early 1966.
As he said, it reached a peak in 1947, and, instead of slackening off, it has stayed up.
I hope it will be adhered to and that there will be no slackening because there is an improvement.
