Sentence examples for backsliding to from inspiring English sources

Well, Shukri Ghanem talked a good line about reform but accomplished so little that there's not much backsliding to do.

Failure to take prescribed medications and backsliding to old bad habits is endemic, no matter what the condition.

After losing 452 games in its first four years, the expansion club managed a 66-95 record in 1966 before backsliding to 101 losses in 1967.

This time, he said, there will be no extra motivation, other than the Falcons trying to avoid backsliding to 1-4.

Brussels is full of talk about "backsliding" to describe the way that politicians in the new member countries forgot, or actively undermined, reforms that the EU demanded during accession negotiations.

Europeans are shuttering nuclear-power plants and backsliding to filthy coal.How to use a windfall wiselyIt will be years before renewable energy is cheap and reliable enough to replace fossil fuels entirely.

After six straight quarters of negative gross margins since commencing services in October 1998, Netzero turned a slim 4.6% gross profit in this year's second quarter only to backslide to negative 6% in the third quarter on a 12% decline in ad revenue.

It's best if the move is regarded as a temporary necessity, not a backslide to old family roles.

You seem to be making a bit of progress and then, whoops, that rock takes an abrupt backslide to square one and despite shouting from a moral high ground about how Mega-Bankers were the recipient of all that marvelous green stuff showered on them by the U.S. Treasury, in the end, it all falls on deaf regulatory ears.

Yet whatever the cruise industry's progress in safeguarding the environment, Mr. Conway said it is necessary to keep up the scrutiny to prevent backsliding and to be sure that laws adequately protect the environment and human health.

In others, it is hoped, reformist officials will use the OGP's help and the publicity it gives to spur backsliding colleagues to do better.