Sentence examples for backslider from inspiring English sources
The word "backslider" is usable in written English and is well written
It can be used to describe someone who has reverted to a previous, less desirable state, often in a moral or religious context. Example: "After years of dedication, he became a backslider, abandoning the principles he once held dear." Alternatives include "relapsed" or "apostate."
noun
A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
- She married him thinking to change his ways, and for a while he got religion, but he was ever a backslider
One day, the EU might influence Russia, perhaps the biggest backslider from democracy.
It is the big backslider, accounting for the vast majority of cases (61 out of 77) this year, compared with just eight during the same period in 2013.In recent years Pakistan has allowed some of its most lawless regions to become havens for the virus.
Then, at the same moment, naughty imperialist mischief-making backslider mad dogs disguised as shrubs, jealous of Dear Little Conga-Line Leader Kim Jong Un's good looks and Xbox mastery, secretly wheeled a huge magnet into nearby bushes at launch minus one second, which pulled the missile off its base and toppled it over.
In a series of campaigns, they carried their rule and their faith to much of central and eastern Arabia, before being rebuffed, at the end of the eighteenth century, by the Ottoman sultan, whom the Saudi ruler had denounced as a backslider from the true faith and a usurper in the Muslim state.
Scott Sowers plays a married backslider named Matthew, who is receiving counseling from his pastor's wife, Dorothy (Geneva Carr), aimed at mending his womanizing ways.
It is time for the United States to live up to its historical pledge by taking action against Ethiopia, whose reckless government has, since 2005, been the world's star backslider on democracy.
Mr Sikorski outlined a fiscal federation, with tough rules ("almost impossible" to block by political means) for backsliders, in return for the European Central Bank becoming a real central bank, and acting as a lender of last resort.
Sermons on Friday, when more backsliders may appear, are an opportunity to boost their faith.
Last year mass protests prevented Burkina Faso's Blaise Compaoré from hanging on, and he was forced to flee.Other backsliders have had more success.
But two years after Qaddafi's fall many shopkeepers have stubbornly stuck to the old colour, despite the best efforts of the thawwar, or revolutionary vigilantes, who cruise around the gold market in Tripoli, the capital, telling backsliders: "Change your colour".
Edmund Stoiber, the powerful premier of Bavaria, who also leads the Christian Social Union, pointed menacingly at Christian Democratic backsliders in the Länder of Brandenburg, Bremen and Berlin, declaring that "disloyalty on such a scale cannot be without consequences".But the real target of their fury is Mr Schröder.
