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 Christians trembling came   To that blest place—neglected long, And there rekindled worship's flame,   And freely owned they had been wrong.

From The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Cowherd, Thomas

Backsliding seems as easy with communities as with individuals.

From Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil by Willoughby, Howard