Backsliding in a sentence

And those mile markers need to be tended to with care to keep us from backsliding into places we’ve fought hard to put into the rearview.

Are generations who have seen only progress and lived during times of equality going to be complacent in the face of a potential backsliding in rights?

As a former member who left primarily over the party’s backsliding over trans issues, I was slightly heartened to see James Belchamber’s earlier post and hear about how the hateful motion at conference was dismissed.

Now the start button opens up a windows, with extra junk you don't necessarily want, with declining levels of customization, and W11 is backsliding yet again, but it's not what you see on bootup.

The president is expected to bring up U.S. concerns about democratic backsliding in India, but he will not lecture Modi on the subject, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in a briefing.

But the department began to experience some backsliding, and a DOJ filing last year, in response to the city trying to release itself from the consent decree, said excessive force and racially biased policing still plagued the department.

Concerns within the British political establishment regarding India’s democratic backsliding have also been raised.

Italy’s far-right government have ignored these examples of democratic backsliding in favor of anti-migrant deals, propping up Saied’s government with aid packages in exchange for violently deterring mostly Black migrants from traveling on toward Europe.

No one is punished for violating the rule, but managers will email reminders when they notice any backsliding.

Senior European Union officials on Tuesday Feb. 20, 2024 welcomed a plan by Poland’s new government to address concerns about democratic backsliding and expressed hope that it could end years of legal wrangling.

He was replying to a call-attention notice by Ghulam Rasool Kochak suggesting that China had been backsliding by disputing India’s stand on the MacMahon Line as the boundary between the two countries.

It’s interesting to me, I think especially with cyberpunk and counterculture, there’s kind of a philosophical worry of society backsliding into a corporate dystopia, exacerbated by technology.

The Council of Europe, the EU’s main human rights body, warned Hungary about its democratic backsliding and issues over freedom of expression in a 24 March letter by Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić.

The European Commission said that the EU-wide assessment of the rule of law will complete its toolbox with a “preventive” mechanism to guard against backsliding in countries across the bloc.

The issue is however likely to be particularly fraught in any UK-EU deal because of Brexiteers' aversion to the ECJ, as well as concerns on the EU side about the UK backsliding on aspects of EU regulations it signs up to under a "level playing field".

There should not be any backsliding of democracy.

The South African president disappointed many by shying away from tackling governance abuses and democratic backsliding on the continent.

Also, I saw a huge raccoon several evenings ago, so we can be sure that despite the occasional backsliding in the form of snow, spring is here and there’s no denying it.

Since the end of the Cold War, “everyone has to claim to be a democracy,” said Milan Svolik, a Yale professor who studies democratization and democratic backsliding.

Surely it would be hard for someone who believed so strongly in using arguments instead of bullets to see the West today backsliding politically toward collectivism and bloodshed.