Sentence examples for backsliding i from inspiring English sources

With backsliding I say 'this is wrong but I am going to do it all the same'; with special pleading I say 'this would be wrong for others, but not for me'.

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.

But there has also been, I think, backsliding.

Do I backslide into advice giving and judgment making now and then.

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.

During a discussion on cartooning held by the Witwatersrand University journalism school he added: "I am concerned, but let me get this straight, I don't think we are backsliding to the extent that some people say... but there are some strange things happening".

I felt guilty sometimes, like someone backsliding from church to write stories".

I'm not failing or falling or backsliding.

But I am 40 pounds lighter, and showing no sign of backsliding.

But eventually every finely honed trick to tame my mail would collapse, and I'd backslide into a messy, undisciplined in-box.

I am concerned that, after a strong start early in his term on civil liberties, that he has been backsliding some on that issue.