How To Use Backsliding In A Sentence
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There is a good deal of backsliding from time to time even by countries that profess to believe in freer trade.
Government and Private Enterprise
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But given the context of the continuing repression in Tibet, and an overall backsliding from the Chinese government on human rights, we hope that this time there will be an indication that the Chinese side is interested in engaging in a results-based dialogue.
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But they'll suffer more permanent political damage if they look like they're backsliding on their antiwar views.
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Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Jeremiah 8.
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God is wise, and can tell how to imbitter backsliding to them he loveth.
The Riches of Bunyan
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Take the example of Kyrgyzstan, once an "island of democracy" in Central Asia, that is now, with U.S. support, backsliding into the authoritarianism of its neighbors.
The Kyrgyz Challenge
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Whatever their other differences, good middle-class reformers would not countenance such ideological backsliding or remain passive before fashionable aristocratic interventions.
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These four stages are classified as backsliding, or Demonic Oppression.
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I came to chapter determined to cleanse my bosom and ask penance, for my backsliding is the cause of our continued distresses.
A Morbid Taste For Bones
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But I look for better things of you — and specially ye maun be minded not to act altogether on your ain judgment, for therethrough comes sair mistakes, backslidings and defections, on the left and on the right.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Matt’s backsliding is particularly strong today. iluvcapra Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Primary Balance
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My diet was going well but I'm afraid I've been backsliding a bit recently.
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We have been particularly disappointed by backsliding on human rights this year, after a year of incremental, but still unprecedented, progress in 2002.
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My diet was going well but I'm afraid I've been backsliding a bit recently.
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Given the context of the continuing repression in Tibet and an overall backsliding from the Chinese government on human rights, we hope that this time, there will be an indication that the Chinese side is interested in engaging in a results-based dialogue," said Mary Beth Markey of the International Campaign for Tibet.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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And so we have shattered expectations, disgust at backsliding, abhorrence at the betrayal of the values we hold dear, and a hefty dose of fear - because if the US can backslide, how safe are the rest of us?
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It allows that it is permissible "to dissimulate" or not tell the truth to pagans, non-Muslims and even backsliding or apostating Muslims this of course depends upon who makes the judgement about who is doing the "backsliding" or "apostasy".â¨â¨â¨
Robert Eisenman: Ultimatums Work -- Sarkozy and Cameron Intervene
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So we're not backsliding on any of that, in answer to your question.
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This may help to maintain the gains you've made and to prevent backsliding.
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'This may be called backsliding,' our author confesses, and it _does_ seem rather a 'go-as - you-please' kind of method.
Modern Mythology
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I mention this because it shows the confidence between us: he turned from the beginning of this bad way and I never saw any backsliding.
TESTIMONIES
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This may help to maintain the gains you've made and to prevent backsliding.
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After years of backsliding, the New York City Ballet has recaptured the precision that its signature Balanchine repertory demands.
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The human pageant has been filled with wrong turns, backsliding, and horrible crimes.
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In fact, one point of religion for many people is to provide pressure that keeps them from backsliding into sinful ways.
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I'm starting to frighten myself, because I'm backsliding into my devil-may-care attitude.
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It allows that it is permissible "to dissimulate" or not tell the truth to pagans, non-Muslims and even backsliding or apostating Muslims this of course depends upon who makes the judgement about who is doing the "backsliding" or "apostasy".
Robert Eisenman: Ultimatums Work -- Sarkozy and Cameron Intervene
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In 1936 a system of ‘protection and supervision’ centres was established to keep converts from backsliding.
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It's clear from briefings we have received that Lake Erie has been backsliding and is being polluted again…
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He falls from grace, backsliding all the way to the starting line.
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The main conclusion is that the majority of the governments have been backsliding; that is, they have taken concrete actions that actually run counter to the commitments signed at previous summits.
Global Voices in English » Americas: 5th Summit Reactions
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On one point, however, experts agree: when it comes to teenage births, the United States is backsliding.
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Although the parochial schools we looked at assured us they welcomed Baptist, Muslim, and Hindu children along with Catholics, Agatha was afraid I was backsliding toward papism.
EVENING’S EMPIRE
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Pardon me; I've been backsliding ever since my therapist died.
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That grant, I must tell you at once, has been "backsliding" -- so that despite small increases in some years, in terms of real dollars we are now at the level we were at in 1975, while the costs of our artists and arts groups have been rising substantially, not to mention their cost of living.
Government and the Arts
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Unlike the rest of the world, it failed to connect to the reality that if the US was backsliding economically, then the rest of the global economy would suffer a similar fate.
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apostate" (as the Hebrew for "backsliding" is better rendered); Judah, not as yet utterly apostate, but treacherous or faithless. also -- herself also, like Israel.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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It would have looked, moreover, as though the Government were backsliding, so a swift change of tack was ordained.
