Mubarak had been in jail since the uprising that brought him down, but now, with the revolution in a backslide and a friendly military regime in power, a judge had suddenly ruled that he could no longer be held without a conviction in any of the four cases still pending against him.
Even the homeless veteran population jumped in 2017, marking a backsliding of the gains made last year by city, state and federal programs that slashed the number of homeless veterans by a third.
Yet he avoided any timetable for further withdrawal and, if anything, seemed to be preparing the country for a far longer-term stay in Iraq, warning that a precipitous withdrawal could lead to a backslide in security.
No country has displayed more of a "backslide in democracy" than Greece, the British thinktank Demos has said in a study highlighting the crisis-plagued country's slide into economic, social and political disarray.
Fears over a backslide in protecting forests come after a crackdown on illegal logging and greater enforcement of environmental regulations have recently slowed the pace of deforestation in Brazil's Amazon to its lowest level since government officials began monitoring in 1988.
If we were to actually pay attention to a presidential call to personally scale back our energy habits, the abrupt change in consumer spending could create a backslide in economic recovery and, thus, the president's shot at reelection would be jeopardized, not to mention the reelection chances of any member of Congress who rides along.
At the end of two weeks, we had an offer on the apartment; and the place has been in a messy backslide ever since.
Jeff Smith, an Africa specialist at the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, said Lesotho's election is significant because the nation of 2 million had been a leader in democracy, press freedom and human rights in Africa, as other parts of the continent had seen a backslide in democratic values.
"The demand will fall off when the credit expires, and that could cause a backslide in house prices".
Philippine defense officials now admit the EDCA may not be signed for several years, indicating a backslide in relations between the countries.
