Sentence examples for backsliding a from inspiring English sources

DAY TWO 9 00 a.m.: There's a "Wanderweg" -- walking path -- immediately outside my door, so I take it up the mountain, at one point, StairMastering my way up a steep, wet hill and backsliding a step for every four I took.

Given the timing of the fossil, and evidence from still earlier mammalian fossils, the researchers believe that Maotherium represents backsliding, a reversion toward a more ancient auditory design.

No one is perfect -- we are all going to have our not-so-proud moments and backslide a little on our healthy lifestyle goals, no matter how important they are to us.

Having strong, nice-looking abs is always a work in progress, and it's okay if you backslide a bit now and then.

Having considered all this, professional integrity requires the physician to treat both the patient's interests and the scientific interests in an honest way without backsliding into a form of therapeutic misconception.

He warns of a risk of backsliding into an authoritarian style of government should one party Nidaa Tounes control both the presidency and the prime minister's office.Senior members of Nidaa Tounes counter suggestions that they represent  a comeback by the old regime by talking about the democratic transitions of Eastern Europe and Latin America.

We are backsliding into a kind of benign, revisionist view of recent history, which Mr. Ayres accentuates.

Congress could interpret the waiver as "backsliding" on a commitment to insure that China kept its promises to curb missile sales.

Our analyses suggest that all three categories must be evaluated; otherwise, improvements in one or two areas (e.g., vehicle fuel economy, fuel carbon content) can be offset by backsliding in a third area (e.g., VKT growth).

Eighteen months later, his religious beliefs had so alienated him from his bandmates that he quit Pacific Gas & Electric and returned home to Cleveland, "where I started backsliding, like a dog returning to his own vomit.

Meanwhile, Apple seems to be backsliding into a defensive position, no longer surprising us with news in the middle of an Apple-free conference or scoffing at cuts from Google or Samsung.