The phrase "avoid backsliding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one wants to prevent regression or a return to a previous, less desirable state, often in discussions about progress or improvement.
Example: "To ensure the success of our new policies, we must take proactive measures to avoid backsliding into old habits."
Alternatives: "prevent regression" or "stop relapsing".
Whichever way they go first, they need both if they are to avoid backsliding into perpetual mediocrity.
When you've started cutting back, be very careful to avoid backsliding into your addiction again.
Filling the void left by your old habit with another activity will help you avoid backsliding.
This time, he said, there will be no extra motivation, other than the Falcons trying to avoid backsliding to 1-4.
In what many consider the most critical appointment of his tenure thus far, Mr. Cuomo must soon name a new leader of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority as it confronts a $9 billion budget shortfall and the struggles of the subway system to avoid backsliding to its darker days.
He writes, "If we truly want to avoid backsliding into our old ways, there's a final key ingredient: Belief".
The near-universal support for the Paris agreement would avoid the backsliding that followed the Kyoto protocol of the 1990s, experts said.
Looking ahead, our first priority is to push the Senate to improve the bill and avoid any further backsliding.
"The Mentalist" made its debut in late September to an impressive 15.5 million viewers — thanks in large part to its hit lead-in, "NCIS" — and it has not only avoided the backslide that can follow such a premiere, it has also largely maintained, and at times expanded, its weekly audience.
"Given the inconsistencies in many of your recent communications, we expect that the shareholders would welcome Elliott's nominees to the board to ensure proper and timely execution and to avoid the risk of backsliding," Mr. Batchelder wrote.
He therefore opens his book with the proclamation that "religion has wrought untold misery in human affairs" and, to avoid the charge that he is backsliding from atheism, "ventriloquises" his defence of religion or, at any rate, of "the Jewish and Christian scriptures [which] have much to say about some vital questions... on which the left has for the most part maintained an embarrassed silence".
