(1) Yet what has been unfolding in the past 15 months or so should make even the most ardent pro-European think about an orderly mechanism for making member states exit: the euro crisis and, less obviously, Hungary's backsliding from liberal democracy to a soft form of authoritarianism, or what an American paper recently called " Lukashenko lite ".
(2) Nasheed clearly understood the need to commune with power – but he also talked about the best way of pushing backsliding politicians in the right direction.
(3) In what appeared to be a concerted Conservative attack, Johnson began by accusing Labour of backsliding over wiping existing tuition fee debts.
(4) A populist government whose democratic backsliding has been ringing alarm bells in Europe will embrace a US president who shares its illiberal views and hostility to migrants.
(5) And how would citizens enforce their rights if there is backsliding, either by the UK for EU residents or by Spain, Germany or any of the other 27 EU member states in the case of UK citizens?
(6) The prime minister was accused of backsliding on promises made by Vote Leave after she cast doubt on the effectiveness of a system admitting people on the basis of their skills and refused to commit an extra £100m to the NHS.
(7) Alex is a hard act to follow but I am determined to lead the SNP – and the country – from strength to strength.” Reiterating her determination to ensure that Holyrood secures the powers promised to Scotland by the pro-union parties before the referendum, she said: “I will always make the case for Scotland to be an independent country, but with the Westminster parties already backsliding on the delivery of new powers, my immediate job will be to hold them firmly to account – and I am today putting them on notice that I intend to do just that.” Sturgeon also announced a speaking tour of cities across Scotland to rally the thousands of new members who have joined the SNP since the referendum on 18 September.
(8) African leaders said ahead of today's talks that they would raise concerns about G8 backsliding.
(9) China was accused of trying to backslide on agreements made last year, by reinstating text that had been left out by previous agreement.
(10) Unions have accused the government of “total betrayal” as it emerged that up to 800 redundancies from Clydeside shipyards could result from backsliding on David Cameron’s pledge to provide a steady stream of orders to safeguard the industry.
(11) The European parliament recently expressed serious concern about “serious backsliding” in Turkey over rights and press freedom , part of a perceived anti-democratic trend under Erdoğan’s presidency.
(12) The AidWatch report singled out the two biggest countries in the eurozone – Germany and France – for backsliding on commitments they had made, and said it was worried that 14% of EU aid – €7.35bn – did not reach developing countries.
(13) Earlier this week Yvo de Boer, the UN's senior climate change official, accused the EU of backsliding on promises it made at a 2007 summit in Bali.
(14) But America is constant paradox; we are backsliding into something insidious, ignoring the civil liberties of black people, denying the basic respect of recognizing the humanity and possibility of black lives.
(15) It may be because Britain has been the international poster child for austerity over the past couple of years and it would encourage backsliding by other, less determined, governments if the Fund gave Osborne the signal to let up.
(16) I think they might backslide on Brexit and I think they will be pushing forward with very, very unpopular policies, raising taxes, penalising small businesses, taking an even bigger stick than they have already to the poorest people on benefits.” Matthew Goodwin, a senior fellow at Chatham House, had predicted that less than half of those who backed Ukip under Farage in the 2015 general election would do so again, with a third moving to the Conservatives.
(17) By their backsliding on gay equality, the Conservatives are missing out on lots of potential pink votes.
(18) It is ridiculously low.” Javadekar said the pledges to the green climate fund amounted to backsliding.
(19) The foreign secretary, David Miliband, said that, far from backsliding, "the EU is going into the final nine months before Copenhagen stronger and stronger".
(20) This meeting is still likely to end with a feel-good statement that some form of progress has been made towards the 2015 goal, but the danger is that between now and that crucial date any further upsets, backsliding, failure to agree finance or deepening rifts between rich and poor could derail the whole process.
Relapse
Definition:
(v. i.) To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back.
(v. i.) To slide or turn back into a former state or practice; to fall back from some condition attained; -- generally in a bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended condition; as, to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; -- sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after being disturbed.
(v. i.) To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide.
(v.) A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back.
(v.) One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nine of 14 patients studied for documented clinical relapse had positive repeat studies.
(2) The most common reasons cited for relapse included craving, social situations, stress, and nervousness.
(3) Mitoses of nuclei of myocytes of the left ventricle of the heart observed in two elderly people who had died of extensive relapsing infarction are described.
(4) Due to continued disease relapse in this group (four of eight patients), long-term survivors should not be identified for a minimum of 3.5 years from the time of initial therapy.
(5) The plasma levels of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) were measured both during relapse and remission in 8 patients with idiopathic, minimal-lesion nephrotic syndrome.
(6) With a median follow-up of 6 years, 32 (20%) of 156 patients who achieved complete remission have relapsed.
(7) In Stage I, seven relapses (relapse rate 6%) occurred after irradiation; three of them were cured with second-line therapies.
(8) The relapse was 80% in the sagittal plane, 70% in the transverse plane, and 12% in the vertical plane.
(9) Therefore, a mortality analysis of overall survival time alone may conceal important differences between the forces of mortality (hazard functions) associated with distinct states of active disease, for example pre-remission state and first relapse.
(10) High concordance was observed between a positive test and relapse during the period of study (chi-square = 27.53, P less than 0.001).
(11) These results suggest that a lowered basal energy expenditure and a reduced glucose-induced thermogenesis contribute to the positive energy balance which results in relapse of body weight gain after cessation of a hypocaloric diet.
(12) Between January 1979 and April 1983, 113 children undergoing their first relapse of acute lymphoid leukemia (ALL) at any site were registered in Pediatric Oncology Group study 7834; 98 were eligible and evaluable.
(13) We measured CSF immunoreactive myelin basic protein (MBP), a marker of acute myelin damage, and sIL-2R levels in the CSF from 11 patients with active relapsing remitting (RR) MS, five with stable RR MS, eight with chronic progressive (CP) MS, five with other neurologic diseases, and three normal controls.
(14) Of all solid tumors only nine occurred in relapse-free patients.
(15) Seven patients relapsed after a CY-induced remission, but 5 of them became steroid responsive.
(16) Many reports of thyroid stimulating immunoglobulins (TSI) in relation to treatment of Graves' disease have been published and with variable results concerning prediction of permanent remission or relapse after therapy.
(17) Surgical and pathologic staging can identify a subset of surgically treated rectal cancer patients at high risk for tumor relapse and death.
(18) These results suggest that the bacterium may not play an important pathogenetic role in ulcer healing and relapse, when patients are managed using an H2-blocker.
(19) Several treatment regimes were assessed, and of these it appeared that sulphamethizole 1g three times a day was most effective, both in terms of a lower rate of relapse of infection and also a low incidence of side effects.
(20) After effective treatment the level fell and rose again 10 months prior to the conventional clinical diagnosis of relapse.