Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. Behold, we have come to you for you are Yahweh our God.

Indeed, I suspect that there will be backsliding.

Americans explain their country s democratic backsliding by pointing to the 9 11 terrorist attacks.

The rest of the world must not turn a blind eye to authoritarian backsliding.

Yahweh said to me, Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

Reformers within the government not only capitulated to the backsliding, but actively contributed to it.

And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely for mine anger is turned away from him.

For example, on trade, there has been a remarkable commitment to efforts largely successful to avoid significant backsliding into protectionism.

Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

But hints of new fiscal imprudence or of backsliding on long term debt consolidation and reduction can drive up borrowing costs dramatically.

But actions speak louder than words, and challenges to the NPT regime have continued to undermine its basic principles, causing considerable backsliding.

Nevertheless, although Russia has been backsliding since Putin took power in 2000, his policies might have been worse had he been ostracized.

Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee for thou art the LORD our God.

Kenya has suffered the inevitable democratic backsliding, the continued corruption, and the unfulfilled reform agendas that remain persistent themes elsewhere on the continent.

Why do you glory in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? who trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come to me?

Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?

And my people are bent to backsliding from me though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

The Bush administration, led by Vice President Dick Cheney (but with his boss s explicit approval), recently accused Russia of backsliding into its old evil empire ways.

Is this the cure that Abe really wants for Japan? The last thing that the Japanese economy needs at this point is backsliding on structural reforms.

How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth a woman shall encompass a man.

How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.

For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck him I hid myself and was angry and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

Poland s initiative to create a European Endowment for Democracy could play a leading role here, and with Europe s own unfinished business of democratization in Belarus and elsewhere, like backsliding Ukraine.

It pains me therefore to report that there have, however, been signs in recent days of backsliding on defence reform again, I regret to say by the authorities in Republika Srpska.

Return, backsliding children, says Yahweh for I am a husband to you. I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD for I am married unto you and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion

The great gift of secularism, in turn, has been tolerance. Despite horrific twentieth century backsliding in Europe, secularism has served to blunt the edge of bigotry, because secular reasoning, unlike divine revelation, is never conclusive.

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, 'Return, you backsliding Israel,' says Yahweh 'I will not look in anger on you for I am merciful,' says Yahweh. 'I will not keep anger forever.

Turkey, for its part, seemed to be on a path toward true liberal democracy, notwithstanding the criticism of those who pointed to Erdoğan s jailing of journalists and generals it is now backsliding for all the world to see.

Meanwhile, there should be no backsliding on the progress already made, such as the offer to eliminate agricultural export subsidies by 2013 and to provide duty free quota free access for almost all exports from least developed countries.

And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

Moreover, Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.

I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn't fear but she also went and played the prostitute.

The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

Today, however, the international community appears to be backsliding on its human rights commitments. The world s emerging powers lack any sense of urgency in addressing abuses, preferring the pursuit of narrower, short term interests to investing in long term peace and justice.

Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.

Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces because their transgressions are many, and their backsliding is increased.

Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

Many Chinese lawyers and legal academics wish that the rule of law in China were more robust, and a few of them, such as Jiang Ping, have warned about backsliding. But, in cases like that of Chen, even sympathetic legal colleagues are often afraid to speak out, much less take action.