When Yeltsin falls — whether via resignation or by a coup d'tat — his successor will have to do things that may be seen abroad as a backsliding to communism, but that will be a misconception.
You seem to be making a bit of progress and then, whoops, that rock takes an abrupt backslide to square one and despite shouting from a moral high ground about how Mega-Bankers were the recipient of all that marvelous green stuff showered on them by the U.S. Treasury, in the end, it all falls on deaf regulatory ears.
In a recent report, Josh Feinman, the chief global economist for Deutsche Asset Management, says that the world could see a substantial backsliding to globalization in decades to come.
Holder has a history of backsliding, to put it mildly, especially when it comes to dumb shit like weed.
Yet he avoided any timetable for further withdrawal and, if anything, seemed to be preparing the country for a far longer-term stay in Iraq, warning that a precipitous withdrawal could lead to a backslide in security.
But when reported through an e-mail newsletter to more than 500 households, the crimes seemed to represent a backslide into Flatbush's past as a crime-heavy neighborhood.
But corporate wisdom seems to hold that even as it creeps forward, it ought to halt a backslide.
The Obama administration regards integrating Russia into the world economy as key to its development and stability, and that has moved concerns about Russian rule of law and democratic backsliding to a lower priority.
But by flying in the face of protocol and using the term "Arabian Gulf", the State Department risks backsliding to a posture in which the US once again bargains away its moral authority in exchange for caustic, emotionally satisfying insults.
"There are a lot of factors and they converged to create a backslide".
