Sentence examples for as backsliding from inspiring English sources

Hardline Islamists regarded that as backsliding.

(He condemns, as backsliding, Robert Bork's support of the case against Microsoft).

This sort of special pleading occurs in the process of making our moral decision; it is not to do with motivation thereafter, as backsliding is.

"We see it not as backsliding, as some articles have mentioned," she said. .

"The D.E.P. began issuing exceptions and began backsliding as soon as it was issued," said one source.

That cost her with human-rights groups: Amnesty International said it was shocked by what it viewed as her backsliding.

"As long as we don't backslide and as long as she holds her own, that's good.

The president's next act got nowhere near as much attention as his protectionist backsliding.

So he was criticised for favouring the prime minister, Najib Razak, whose government lost the popular vote at last year's election and has been accused of backsliding on political as well as economic reform.Neither did Mr Obama find any trade-dealing joy there.

The book follows Clay's struggles as he backslides, gets tempted by friends, and is falsely accused of spray-painting the principal's door on Halloween.

But it has left other measures in place, in part because of what Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton described as the threat of "backsliding" by hard-line elements.