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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a falling back" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone or something is retreating or reverting to a previous state or condition.
Example: "After several attempts to move forward, the team experienced a falling back to their old strategies."
Alternatives: "a regression" or "a retreat".
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Newton's law of universal gravitation encountered some resistance, especially on the French-speaking Continent, where it was sometimes regarded as a falling back into a discredited way of thinking.
There has been a falling back on this idea that the incidence of what is happening in universities is just a reflection of the incidence rate in the general community, or lower than that rate.
Yet to the communal hardliner the dom kommuny is a falling back from true collectivism – it assumes the division of labour, and that someone else will be making your tea.
Labour steadied its morale by pointing to a nationwide squeeze of the Liberal Democrats, especially in Labour areas, a falling back of the BNP and an inability of David Cameron's Conservatives to a break through in key marginals such as Bury.
Psychologists theorized mental illness as evolutionary reversion; criminologists defined the "criminal type" as a throwback; social policies were defended or attacked on the basis of their ostensible likelihood to further or stunt evolution; and even sin came to be described as "a falling back into the animal condition".3 Evolutionary theory set the terms of debate in deaf education as well.
It (and we, as potential customers) needed way more than a falling back on graphics, eye candy and tech demos, which may have served the gaming industry well in the past, but which have done nothing to stem the rising tide of mobile platforms like iOS and Android.
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A long shot of a saddled horse falling back on its hind legs.
Oil prices remained above $80 a barrel, after falling back from record levels.
It hit $10,000 a tonne earlier this year, before falling back to $8,400 a tonne now (see chart).
But research elsewhere in China might offer an alternative to falling back on e-ink.
Second, we show that also the middle class is still exposed to a substantial risk of falling back into poverty.
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