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: --
We must see that we do not backslide in the gains we have made on productivity, and we must get more productivity and greater efficiency.
The short answer is that we are not backsliding, and that those stories are wrong.
There is a great danger in backsliding on the regional issue.
We must not backslide on this position, because otherwise we run the risk of wasting our efforts and losing the initiative completely.
There is still some reluctance to sign that declaration and some councils are still backsliding on that issue.
We must give every encouragement to reform and to democratisation in its broadest sense, rather than go along with backsliding into totalitarian rule.
I am afraid that he is going to backslide still more, because he keeps his head down.
There seems to be a good deal of backsliding from that welcome now.
