Noun : a backslide from his early training.    From Dictionary.com. 

Matt’s backsliding is particularly strong today. iluvcapra Says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Primary Balance] Reference

These four stages are classified as backsliding, or Demonic Oppression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

Since then, there has been what some would call "backsliding", but also a lot of progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [gan_bei: This just in] Reference

Is President Obama in a better position this week or are they kind of backsliding on the stimulus?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2009] Reference

Unfortified, it causes sterility, boredom, and resentment that in turn make "backsliding" inevitable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

Is President Obama in a better position this week, or are they -- are they kind of backsliding on the stimulus?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2009] Reference

In "My 30 Days of Consumer Celibacy", Holtcamp soon found herself "backsliding" by buying penguin toys at a Hallmark shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Feed the Beast! Ending the cycle of consumerism, credit and crisis] Reference

So "backsliding," that is, backslider (Jer 49: 4).    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

Other parties accused the Tories of "backsliding" on the issue.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The doctrine of "backsliding" is to claim that someone can lose their salvation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pulpit Pimps] Reference

She said the term "backsliding" is sometimes used for those who "took to the bottle.".    From Wordnik.com.  [SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines] Reference

Number One is underway, and going well, I even told mom that i am "backsliding" (hate that word).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blog Of Dysfunction] Reference

"backsliding," in the words of President Barack Obama.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In fact, it was unkindly whispered that Stella was "backsliding.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference

There were other examples of backsliding in the Navy's racial practices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference

Well, then, the backsliding was natural, and oughtn't to count against him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brigade Commander] Reference

Now 2,000 volunteer courtroom trainspotters are being sought to prevent backsliding.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 'Talk-Show Avoidance' Strategy] Reference

I mean thee, whose heart, after long backsliding, doth think of turning to him again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference

Just going to this sleigh-ride wasn't going to prove that she was backsliding, anyway!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Governess] Reference

The Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary are in no real danger of backsliding on democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can't Russia Join The Club, Too?] Reference

His fears were realized last week when a French political imperative led to economic backsliding.    From Wordnik.com.  [PETER THE GREAT] Reference

His second is to hook up his backsliding mom (who has a weakness for abusive men) with Mr. Simonet.    From Wordnik.com.  [I See Nice People And They're Paying It Forward] Reference

Since the beginning of China's great economic opening in the 1980s, however, there's been some serious backsliding.    From Wordnik.com.  [They’re Not Going to Take it] Reference

Washington even overlooked instances of backsliding, such as Kim's alleged transfer of nuclear technology to Syria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Looking For A Legacy] Reference

Holding mileage gains steady rather than backsliding in the '90s would have saved half a million barrels of oil daily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Driving Toward Independence] Reference

"I have a good hope that he will; for I remember how he said, 'Return, ye backsliding children, return ye even unto me.'".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rocky Island and Other Similitudes] Reference

Concerns about backsliding on austerity in Spain also seem a little overdone given it relates to an announcement of about.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trans-Atlantic Contagion Trade] Reference

Ali-Ninpha, our backsliding Mahometan, stood by, pretending devoted attention to Mami's precepts and the Prophet's versus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

For the Brezhnev doctrine of 1968 had reserved to the Kremlin the right to use force against backsliding Communist countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philosopher And The Pragmatist] Reference

Methodist, but had grown rather careless of religious matters, till all at once she realized the mighty import of her backsliding.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Right Knock A Story] Reference

He is not ashamed to be extravagant when he likens his sorrow and pain at their backsliding to the travail of a woman for her child.    From Wordnik.com.  [And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses] Reference

Last week the State Department's annual human-rights report accused China of backsliding, citing "widespread and well-documented" abuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Fight Music] Reference

Some U.S. officials say that recent intelligence indicates backsliding in official Iranian attitudes toward Islamic terrorism and Al Qaeda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exclusive: A Threat To British Jews] Reference