Sentence examples for slip backward from inspiring English sources

"Even if something comes out of Camp David," he said, "things will slip backward.

So although the progress is immense, there's still a long war to be fought against AIDS — and if funds are slashed, the world will slip backward.

Now, critics warn that his promises could drain the national treasury and that Thailand's economy could begin to slip backward again.

Thailand, the epicenter of the region's economic crisis, could begin to slip backward again after the painful reforms and incremental gains of the defeated administration of former Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai.

Safety features in workshop-grade weapons can be nonexistent, and the nature of this fuze's design could make it prone to mishap when undergoing the rapid acceleration associated with being fired, the jolt of which could force the striker to slip backward and initiate the explosive train.

The South Korean government is thought to be likely to step in to help Hyundai to keep it from withdrawing from North Korea, partly because no likely substitute is seen to exist and partly because South Korea's president, Kim Dae Jung, won the Nobel peace prize for his efforts to improve relations with the North and does not want the process to slip backward.

The feeling is that we're slipping backward fast.

We sidestepped up, poling to keep from slipping backward.

The word "relapse" comes from the Latin for "slipping backward," or "slipping again".

Without foreign companies, Libyan oil production will not return to preconflict levels and, worse, it risks slipping backward.

Glendon Rusch slipped backward with the Mets last season, and Nick Neugebauer is a rookie coming back from shoulder surgery.