Backsliding in a sentence as a noun

It's when the deadlines start blowing by that the real test comes as to whether he can actually live up to it and not start backsliding.

You keep backsliding from your original stated intent to see the US Government "dead," which is plain enough.

Can anyone give specific examples of OS X backsliding in the feature department?

I actually agree with the author on that point - but the author undermines his case by pretending that we're somehow backsliding.

All previous attempts quickly led to backsliding and accusations of moral failure.

> Can anyone give specific examples of OS X backsliding in the feature department?There was a 475+ post discussion just yesterday on this.

In truth, you're at risk of backsliding as new-ways-of-doing-old-**** keep emerging and eroding your relative status.

It's too bad that Firebug keeps stagnating/backsliding, introducing bugs from version to version but not really improving the development experience much.

Comparing yourself to the worst of your peers and patting yourself on the back because you are still somewhat better is blinding yourself to the absolutely unacceptable backsliding that has been occurring.

I've been backsliding from the fabulous shape I was in during the year I was taking burlesque class, and while I haven't gotten it back, reducing my carb intake and trying to regularly remind myself to just run around for the **** of it!

Feudalism ruled supreme for thousands of years and couldn't be clearer that we are currently backsliding into an era of "digital feudalism".It's not like Google, to name the obvious example, is really hiding their intentions.

Backsliding definitions

noun

a failure to maintain a higher state

See also: lapse lapsing relapse relapsing reversion reverting