Sentence examples for backsliding of from inspiring English sources

For international observers, this was backsliding of the worst sort, the fourth coup in Africa in eight months.

This one, however, is on Columbia – a backsliding of sorts, since Reznor vowed in 2007 to release material independently.

"My role, as I see it, is to wake America up to the backsliding of principles and values and most of all of God," he said.

Mr. Corneille is also wrestling with another issue, which he calls the backsliding of music in the Roman Catholic Church over the last 60 or 70 years.

"It would also greatly diminish the chances of a backsliding of support for terrorism, so we are greatly in favour of such a move".

Hazlitt, who never wavered in his good opinion of the French Revolution and persisted in his admiration for Napoleon even when France and England were at war, was incensed by the backsliding of those who renounced their radicalism.

"The year 2017 could be remember by historians as the year of backsliding on freedom of expression, pluralism and human rights," Al-Wasat's crestfallen editor-in-chief, Mansoor Al-Jamri, told me in an e-mail, three weeks after he had to let a hundred and eighty-five staffers go.

Lagarde warned of the risks of climate change and of backsliding on necessary reforms of the financial sector, and admitted that policymakers – including the IMF – had underestimated the costs of inequality.

Does making the leadership of the country more reflective of the public run the risk of backsliding on freedoms for women, artists, gays?

Some policymakers believe that a Greek exit would be cathartic — that it would demonstrate to other struggling euro-zone economies the risks of backsliding on their fiscal targets or the terms of their bailout programs.

The frank talk is based on New Jersey's history of backsliding on its fiscal responsibilities, which through the laissez-faire financial practices of several governors and Legislatures put the state $32 billion in debt to begin with.