In fact, one point of religion for many people is to provide pressure that keeps them from backsliding into sinful ways. |
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I'm starting to frighten myself, because I'm backsliding into my devil-may-care attitude. |
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After years of backsliding, the New York City Ballet has recaptured the precision that its signature Balanchine repertory demands. |
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The human pageant has been filled with wrong turns, backsliding, and horrible crimes. |
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But they'll suffer more permanent political damage if they look like they're backsliding on their antiwar views. |
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Of all of the recent backsliding, perhaps none is as interminably damaging as the de-linkage of disarmament from non-proliferation. |
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It begins inconspicuously with gradual backsliding on standards of tolerance and equal opportunities. |
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The international community and developing countries clearly want to avoid backsliding on progress towards universal access. |
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It has been suggested that we now have lived through a decade of disappointment, really a decade of backsliding from progress made. |
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But I wondered: Is this the democracy we are fighting for this barbarity, this backsliding? |
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When it comes to language rights, failure to progress amounts to backsliding. |
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For some car buyers, the big drop in price may easily offset the backsliding. |
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Moreover, the loop underscores the need to guard against backsliding once a creative idea has been implemented. |
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But there is still much to be done to strengthen those areas in order to avoid backsliding to a situation of instability. |
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Because of these problems, isolated pockets of good effort and success are often outweighed by backsliding in other areas. |
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In others, it is hoped, reformist officials will use the OGP's help and the publicity it gives to spur backsliding colleagues to do better. |
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Nevertheless, and with regard to the causes of these situations of delay and backsliding, the report does not go as far as we would have liked. |
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We had fears, and I remember that instance very well, that we were in fact backsliding, that we needed to strengthen air safety. |
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Rather, there is growing evidence that Vietnam is backsliding on its stated commitments to uphold and respect basic human rights. |
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Lastly, it is more important than ever to avoid any backsliding in the implementation of the reform. |
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Cancun negotiations must not allow backsliding from this existing position. |
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So we're not backsliding on any of that, in answer to your question. |
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He falls from grace, backsliding all the way to the starting line. |
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Unlike the rest of the world, it failed to connect to the reality that if the US was backsliding economically, then the rest of the global economy would suffer a similar fate. |
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While the world is on track to achieve the drinking water target globally, large regions of the world and many countries lag behind, and some risk backsliding. |
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Since the cat is unbagged in the first act, most of the play concerns James's maneuvering between bouts of reconciliation and backsliding. |
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Rather than backsliding, all parties need to keep the original promise of sustained, predictable funding for the education, services and research needed to overcome the epidemic. |
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And we should not forget that progress on the moral front is less spectacular than backsliding, that peace makes less noise than war, and that stability attracts less media attention than upheaval. |
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Bilateral and multilateral funding support, coupled with enhanced financial priorities in favour of HIV funding at the national level, will scale up our progress and prevent backsliding in our efforts. |
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François Hollande, the French president, seen in Athens as more sympathetic to struggling Greeks than Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has warned against backsliding. |
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Mr Putin wants to protect Russian industries from external competition, including by increasing subsidies to farmers. The WTO should resist that, and keep sounding the alarm at signs of G20 backsliding. |
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Crime victims can be a particular challenge because of the depth of their issues and the fact that, like many clients, progress is often accompanied by periods of no movement and backsliding. |
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Romania and Bulgaria have been backsliding ever since they joined the EU in January, and yet there have been only mild complaints from Brussels, which has lost the leverage that it had before the two countries' entry. |
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