"Every time he stops going to physical therapy, he starts to backslide in terms of his balance, his strength and his mobility," said Ms. DeGolia, executive director of the Universal Health Care Action Network, a national advocacy group in Cleveland.
Indeed, the growing number of departures and the dwindling number of applicants have raised this question: Is a department that expanded to meet a growing crime problem about to backslide in both size and supervisory experience, leaving the city more vulnerable?
But absent resolve and some sort of consensus that education is the challenge of the century, I'm afraid we're destined to backslide in ways that are too uncomfortable for me to consider.
They are puzzled by weak European reaction to an increasingly aggressive Russia, to the crisis in the wake of the Arab spring, the disaster in Syria, to backsliding of democracy in Poland and Hungary.
The second part of the course will discuss factors that contribute to democratic backsliding in East-Central Europe. East-Central Europe
"Given the substantial lead time for the standards, along with anticipated fuel efficiency gains for new aircraft types already in development by manufacturers, the standards will serve primarily to prevent backsliding in emissions," ICCT said in a statement.
"This seems to be backsliding in precisely the area that the Russian government argued that it had made the greatest gains," said Timothy J. Colton, director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard, referring to economic growth.
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.
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.
