backsliding

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Another landscape perspective that can shed some light is that of state-level government, explored by University of Washington political scientist Jacob M. Grumbach in a paper called "Laboratories of Democratic Backsliding."

From Salon • May 16, 2021

Backsliding: Four years ago, Central European University professor Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick thought technology would help bring freedom to Hungary.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2018

Backsliding into respectability, he lived for a while with his grandmother, who made him get a job as a store "cash boy"�a trying occupation for a boy as sorely tempted as Fields was.

From Time Magazine Archive

Backsliding cometh on as gray hairs, here and there and is not perceived by beholders.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

Backsliding, of Israelites, 19. among professed Christians, a sign of Christ's coming, 309, 316.

From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by White, Ellen Gould Harmon