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Examples of backslide
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Pepco has raised its game before, only to backslide once controversy has passed.
From the washingtonpost.com
Unfortunately, consumer debt is tricky because it is extremely easy to backslide.
From the denverpost.com
Still, it's difficult to overlook the backslide by the staff since last summer.
From the signonsandiego.com
So do your best not to backslide and assume the role of top dog in your home.
From the ocregister.com
For in another 40 years, the territory could backslide into dust and despair.
From the time.com
That pressure to perform can sometimes cause professionals in recovery to backslide.
From the well.blogs.nytimes.com
Nearby, a group of PTL partners brandished a sign that read FALWELL, DON'T BACKSLIDE.
From the time.com
Windows 7 undid the damage, but I'm nervous that Windows 8 could backslide into bloat.
From the time.com
Thursday's expansion to 15 is not considered the start of a backslide to the days of old.
From the timesunion.com
- Lapse: drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
- (backsliding) a failure to maintain a higher state
- Backsliding is a term used within Christianity to describe a process by which an individual who has converted to Christianity reverts to pre-conversion habits and/or lapses or falls into sin. ...
- To regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state; To shirk responsibility; to renege on one's obligations or commitments
- (backsliding) An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense; sliding back
- (Backsliding) The actions of a Christian who seems to be losing their faith or behaving in an "un-Christian" manner. (Backslider.)
- To move backward in freefall relative to a neutral reference. Usually unintentional and undesirable, caused by poor body position.
- To draw back or apostatize in matters of religion (Act 21:21; Th2 2:3; Ti1 4:1). This may be either partial (Pro 14:14) or complete (Heb 6:4; Heb 10:38, Heb 10:39). The apostasy may be both doctrinal and moral.
- A grind in which the skater uses only the trailing skate; the free skate is normally grabbed.
