backslider

How To Use backslider In A Sentence

• One backslider returned to the fold is a greater victory than a thousand heathen. THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS
• Today the forces offer planned careers for young men and women who are intent on gaining a professional training and there is no room for backsliders, unwilling recruits or recalcitrant conscripts.
• The "backslider" is an excellent illustration of the results of periodic renewal of impulse to right living. Church Cooperation in Community Life
• And as for the common, partial, and ignorant histories of France, written in our tongue, they generally make him a kind of backslider, who might have been a Huguenot Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance
• Why, for that matter, should the international community trust a backslider with a track record of preferring force to freedom? Democracy Is the Only Solution in Madagascar
• That is why we hold in contempt those who, in the unbridled pride of their narcissistic haughtiness, for selfish interests, or even for filthy lucre in various places all over the world—even in our land a small group of such backsliders and traitors can be found - divorce and isolate themselves from their own people and its life and real interests and, with inexorable logic, become instruments of the antihumanistic forces of imperialism and, in its service, the heralds of disruption and discord among nations. Making the History of 1989
• Goldstein was the renegade and backslider who once, long ago (how long ago nobody quite remembered), had been one of the leading figures of the Party, almost on a level with BIG BROTHER himself, and then had engaged in counter-revolutionary activities, had been condemned to death and had mysteriously escaped and disappeared. Is anyone uncomfortable with the imposition of the "2 minute hate" this week?
• Henry has been called a backslider because of the lenity of his counsels, but I cannot but think it is the Spirit of Christ that influences him. The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Yes, many people were still angry but it was also noticeable that the apologists and backsliders were beginning to gather force.
• In my last piece titled ‘To hell with backsliders,’ I said that, ‘All over the world regional trading blocks are either being formed or enhanced by political will.’