Similar words: backslide, gliding, colliding, backside, backstage, backstroke, backseat driver, backpacking. Meaning: [‚bækslaɪd] n. a failure to maintain a higher state.
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1. You've done a good job in the exam, I hope you won't backslide.
2. He's a reformed criminal who may yet backslide.
3. He kept away from strong drink for years, but recently I'm afraid he'begun to backslide.
4. Mr. Jack was once active in the church, but he has backslidden.
5. The philosopher, who had told me earlier he was a back-sliding Episcopalian, glanced at me apprehensively.
6. Many of the patients backslide into drug and alcohol abuse.
7. And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
8. Of course, this backsliding of a nation could not have happened if the church had not backslidden or fallen into a lukewarm state.
9. We have been particularly disappointed by backsliding on human rights this year, after a year of incremental, but still unprecedented, progress in 2002.
10. Ministers insisted there would be no backsliding on the government's hardline austerity programmes after data showed that Britain's economy grew by just 0.2% in the spring.
11. Hints of environmental backsliding have appeared in the government’s own ropy data.
12. Any lack of progress or backsliding on efforts to get the currency bloc's fiscal house in order will renew worries the crisis could seriously damage the world financial system and major economies.
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13. This may help to maintain the gains you've made and to prevent backsliding.
14. My diet was going well but I'm afraid I've been backsliding a bit recently.
15. Whatever their other differences, good middle-class reformers would not countenance such ideological backsliding or remain passive before fashionable aristocratic interventions.
16. It would have looked, moreover, as though the Government were backsliding, so a swift change of tack was ordained.
17. Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit,(sentencedict.com) they refuse to return.
18. But even if they do join W.T.O., Russia’s business and legal climate and backsliding on democracy will present serious obstacles.
19. Already, the enormous subsidies that are allowed in this year's farm bill suggest that the United States is backsliding from its goal of freer farm trade.
20. On one point, however, experts agree: when it comes to teenage births, the United States is backsliding.
21. This week it was announced that some limits are to go, but in China there is always plenty of room for backsliding between announcement and execution.
22. But according to the Global Environment Facility, incandescents still make up 50-70% of worldwide sales and China's move forms a striking contrast to the US government's backsliding on the issue.
23. This means that the system only improves, always notching forward, never backsliding.
24. By understanding what causes a weight-loss plateau you can decide how to respond and avoid backsliding on your healthy-eating and exercise habits.
25. Yet despite this hard-won progress, Beijing is now in danger of backsliding.
26. Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding?
27. The three African nations on the 2007 list have won praise at times for their transitions to democracy, but now are being cited for backsliding on press issues.
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