0 to go back to doing something bad when you have been doing something good, especially to stop working hard or to fail to do something that you had agreed to do:
1 to return to old, often bad, habits, or to a worse condition:
Individuals might backslide from the highest standards of behaviour and, of course, some did.
Other post-conflict societies have encountered problems of rising crime, backsliding on reforms, corruption, and disillusionment among the populace.
The general trajectory of a regime backsliding on its liberalizing promises emerges clearly.
The explanations, or the independent variables for both the successful reforms of the political system in 1997 and the backsliding away from democratization, are largely the same.
This feeling of ontological insecurity informed not only ' backsliding into heathendom ' but also the pronounced emotionalism of converts as an attempt to create trust in the new order.
Almost certainly the net result will be that some local authorities will discharge their responsibilities to the full and others may backslide.
There are municipal tin-pot dictators about who will backslide as long as they can.
There seems to be a good deal of backsliding from that welcome now.
