The phrase "a backsliding to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a regression or return to a previous, less desirable state or condition.
Example: "The recent policy changes have led to a backsliding to outdated practices that hinder progress."
Alternatives: "a regression to" or "a return to".
It's best if the move is regarded as a temporary necessity, not a backslide to old family roles.
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.
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.
After losing 452 games in its first four years, the expansion club managed a 66-95 record in 1966 before backsliding to 101 losses in 1967.
For such extensive backsliding to occur took a poisonous combination of bad American decisions, European neglect and Russian aggressiveness.
Well, Shukri Ghanem talked a good line about reform but accomplished so little that there's not much backsliding to do.
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.
Trump also has complained that China appeared to ease back on enforcement of international sanctions against Pyongyang since the June summit, a backsliding that has complicated efforts to persuade Kim to give up his nuclear arsenal and stop producing fissile material as fuel for nuclear weapons.
