Meanings of backslide on in English

Mr Nuttall continued: We must be there to ensure that the government does not backslide on these negotiations.

Cambodia has six months to convince its biggest export market that it has arrested a backslide on human rights and democracy.

However, while the Commission may be eager to promote growth policies, Europe's paymaster Germany is reluctant to let countries backslide on austerity targets.

China was accused of trying to backslide on agreements made last year, by reinstating text that had been left out by previous agreement.

Remember: Section 28 came two decades after 1967, and Brexit means that a future UK government could backslide on human rights.

United States President Barack Obama warned during a November visit that the country was backsliding on reforms.

Mr Cheney said Russia was backsliding on democracy and using its vast energy supplies to bully its neighbours.

However, it risks adding to the perception that President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's government is backsliding on environmental commitments.

This explains why France is looking for provision for rapid retaliatory action if the UK backslides on the agreement.

She said too much praise had made the government "complacent" and it was backsliding on promised reforms.

The Finance Ministry, while taking note of the IMF's advice, rebuffs suggestions that it is already backsliding on the budget.

To top it all off, Karzai is backsliding on pledges to hold government officials accountable for the country's endemic corruption.

The referrals are likely to play into a simmering debate on whether countries backsliding on democratic standards, or flouting EU laws, should lose European funds.

The US president said he had spent time "listening to their concerns" to underscore American worries that the Kremlin may be backsliding on democracy.