Sentence examples for some backsliding from inspiring English sources

Human nature means that there will be some backsliding.

In September the prospect of new talks appeared sufficiently distant to merit some backsliding on accession.

"It doesn't surprise me that there has perhaps been some backsliding".

Still, because the policy does allow for individual gifts of "nominal" value, some backsliding has occurred.

An increase in the percentage of urban populations in Europe being exposed to levels of particulate matter from 2010 to 2011 suggested some backsliding, the report said.

"One shouldn't, but might, tolerate some backsliding or carelessness decades after these promises were made, but certainly not just months after".

Paul, an ex-convict who has found religion, is a bit less clear about what he wants, and he clings to a sense of his own righteousness, even after some dramatic backsliding.

In many other parts of the country, recycling is in the doldrums — and in some cases backsliding — despite the sounding of environmental alarms about global warming and shrinking resources.

Despite all the criticisms of Greece's backsliding, some of them justified, the country has made substantial progress in the past couple of years in overhauling its tax system, cutting government spending, and repairing its public finances.

Myanmar's new president, Thein Sein, recently initiated a range of democratic reforms that have been nothing short of remarkable — so remarkable, in fact, that many Burma-watchers are nervously holding their breath, wary that some sort of backsliding lies ahead.

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