Those were moments of democratic backsliding too, even if the backsliding didn't culminate in a full-on national reversion to authoritarian rule.
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Lamar is backsliding, and Khloé doesn't know what to do.
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In general, Treasury yields have been backsliding for several weeks.
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But we're now at this moment, however, where it's backsliding.
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He's been accused of presiding over corruption and democratic backsliding.
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Simsek said there would be no backsliding on human rights.
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But the United States is now in danger of backsliding.
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The backsliding also trimmed the dollar's overnight gains in Asia.
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Last year he was 31, tormented by pain and backsliding.
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The backsliding also stalled the dollar's overnight gains in Asia.
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Backsliding in the US and Europe hurts climate action everywhere.
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And more worrisome, such former inmates risk backsliding into criminal conduct.
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Democrats on Monday accused Republicans of backsliding on their campaign promises.
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Post-conflict societies always remain fragile and risk backsliding into war.
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But rather than address the problem, the Trump administration is backsliding.
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"Today we are witnessing significant backsliding across the country," she said.
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A congressional delegation visited Hungary last year to investigate democratic backsliding.
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The combination of those changes is likely to mean some backsliding.
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"Analysts of backsliding disagree on the importance of forbearance," Mickey explained.
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China's rise and democratic backsliding in Russia and elsewhere scotched that hope.
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First, it is essential that there is no backsliding on the reforms.
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But there was no talk of backsliding as the deal was announced.
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Democratic backsliding is far less rare than political scientists used to believe.
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The fewer the rules, the more scope for mercantilist mischief and backsliding.
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Felix, however, dismissed fears that the government was backsliding on its efforts.
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There has since been major backsliding when it comes to local policing.
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Both progress and backsliding, Ms Lepore shows, are part of the American experiment.
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Optimists say that Mexico's democratic institutions have grown strong enough to resist backsliding.
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A 280 study of democratic backsliding identified 2112 historical cases of democratic decline.
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So what should the EU do to halt this cascade of democratic backsliding?
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Yet, Beijing offsets its positive sanctions actions by backsliding on other enforcement measures.
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But steady progress has proved elusive; of late, there has been some backsliding.
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Some backsliding from prompt sharing can occur as an information-sharing agreement ages.
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None of the other three held for more than a few weeks before backsliding.
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The third and final warning sign regarding democratic backsliding relates to the civil service.
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To understand democratic backsliding, it's important to understand the essential components of a democracy.
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Lee should be bringing #Tennessee into the 21st century not backsliding into the 19th.
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They will have a free hand, too, to tackle any backsliding by the FARC.
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The move was widely seen as a direct response to Hungary's backsliding on democracy.
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Having demanded that Britain "take back control" of immigration, they will not forgive backsliding.
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We are prepared to challenge this latest Trump backsliding which seemingly has no bottom.
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But most experts on Venezuela or on the backsliding of democracies reject these explanations.
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The ruling unsettled the proponents of exiting the European Union, who warned against backsliding.
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Duda denied backsliding on democracy when asked about his attempt to remove the judges.
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The backsliding was halted in 2015 when he lost reelection for a third term.
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It is small, nationally oriented businesses that are most at risk from backsliding on reforms.
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Many of these examples of democratic backsliding proceeded through formally constitutional legislation or administrative processes.
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"Despite clear cause for concern, little actual backsliding occurred in 123," Levitsky and Ziblatt conclude.
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There is some international precedent for electoral defeats helping end a process of democratic backsliding.
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Trump could avoid more gaffes or start backsliding like he did with birtherism on Thursday.
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Already alarmed by Mr Erdogan's democratic backsliding, Congress, the Pentagon and State Department were appalled.
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Holding rates steady is the right, if defensive, move to keep the economy from backsliding.
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In response to a backsliding nation, we're now in a second Age of Black Power.
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In the onslaught of news where we see the world backsliding into authoritarianism, this stands alone.
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But Trump said Wednesday he is "not concerned at all" about Poland backsliding away from democracy.
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Americans of all political stripes seem to be backsliding lately into an inherent human monarchist tendency.
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The carbon-farming idea is gathering momentum at a time when national climate policy is backsliding.
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Weaker parties have significant consequences: They make democracy more vulnerable to instability, backsliding, and insurgent candidates.
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There are also risks to democratic backsliding that arise due to Democrats' victory in the House.
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Donors often reward democratic reforms; they also try to punish corruption and backsliding, as in Malawi.
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In the onslaught of news where we see the world backsliding into authoritarianism this stands alone.
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And enforcement provisions as part of the re-negotiation that allow us to prevent any backsliding.
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But history shows that each time tensions ease, there could be interference or backsliding, Wang added.
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This moment is an opportunity to push progress forward rather than risk the dangers of backsliding.
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American officials have expressed concern about the law, fearing it could amount to anti-Democratic backsliding.
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"Instead of evolving toward liberty and rule of law, Beijing is backsliding," according to Republican Rep.
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Monarchs, The Crown suggests, can be an important force against democratic backsliding in a modern world.
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The European People's Party has faced calls to expel or suspend Fidesz for alleged democratic backsliding.
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But, followed to its logical conclusion, it can lead to democratic backsliding or even outright authoritarianism.
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Hungary and Poland, unchecked by courts and legislatures that have grown weak, are backsliding into authoritarianism.
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Tushnet argues that a move like this by Trump, unchallenged, needn't necessarily amount to democratic backsliding.
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If partial democracy is linked to conflict, recent backsliding in countries like Turkey looks even more worrying.
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As well as stopping Mr Trump from backsliding, CAATSA moderately increases the pressure on the Russian economy.
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Yet under Orbán, the country has witnessed democratic backsliding that presents its own threats to transatlantic security.
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Beyond defending air quality and fuel economy rules against backsliding, there are opportunities to go on offense.
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The Democratic takeover of the House could certainly help put a halt to, if not reverse, backsliding.
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The persecution of Luis exemplifies the general backsliding of the democratic institutions of Colombia in recent years.
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William Galston uses the example of Hungary in "Backsliding in Budapest" to explain Europe's retreat from democracy.
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It is truly one of the few examples of democratic backsliding in which the government ends defeated.
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Emissions are rising in the United States and China, and other countries are backsliding on their pledges.
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In many ways, Hungary has foreshadowed the democratic backsliding now evident in different corners of the world.
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In Eastern Europe, where democratic backsliding continues, assaults on the independence of the judiciary have become common.
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She is perfectly partnered with Mr. Hurt's ever-defensive Greg, a recovering alcoholic who's terrified of backsliding.
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Backsliding now on public health and the environment would not do the automakers a lot of good.
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They're critical to ensuring that climate change progress in one country isn't overwhelmed by backsliding in others.
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Polls have shown that Mr. Trump's popularity has not suffered significantly because of his contradictions and backsliding.
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When political scientists warn that Donald Trump poses a threat to American democracy, they're usually referring to backsliding.
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This means news outlets are unlikely to point out that democratic backsliding has started until it's too late.
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He's accelerated democratic backsliding, and his government still poses a threat to American citizens, journalists, and government officials.
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It is instead vulnerable to the most prevalent form of democratic backsliding — a slow descent toward partial autocracy.
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This backsliding on human rights is not limited to that of LGBT people--but they experience it disproportionately.
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Since she voted for Remain, the Brexiteers will be watching her every move for any hint of backsliding.
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If another G2202 leader put their daughter or son in the chair we'd be talking about democratic backsliding.
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Yet with instability on their doorstep and discontent at home, the country is at real risk of backsliding.
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A clear sense of commitment to avoid backsliding towards protection from the G20 will be essential going forward.
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It is people initially excited by the Time's Up insurgency who are concerned about stagnation or even backsliding.
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Just as worrisome, the central government has, in the face of these challenges, already shown signs of backsliding.
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"What we really want to avoid," Dr. Gorstein said, "is this pattern in which success leads to backsliding."
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The reason for democratic backsliding in the country are, at root, linked to its occupation of Palestinian land.
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If another G20 leader put their daughter or son in the chair we'd be talking about democratic backsliding.
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Investors won't tolerate backsliding to the practices of the first inning and will demand that producers, well, produce.
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"I think when there is backsliding internally then you have less moral force in that argument," Obama said.
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Now conservatives, sensing backsliding among their colleagues, again want to use their numbers to dictate their desired result.
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What's even more troubling is if a Republican victory suggested public opinion is supportive of democratic backsliding itself.
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But it is yet more vital; backsliding is a threat to the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people.
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Some of Magufuli's policies are now endangering that record, however, and the backsliding comes at a particularly inopportune moment.
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Otherwise, there's no real explanation really for why criminal justice outcomes would be backsliding whilst reporting is actually increasing.
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Kanter first considered speaking out against Turkey's backsliding government in 2013, after Erdogan embroiled himself in a corruption scandal.
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As a result, Americans alarmed by Putin's apparent power over Trump have been backsliding into vestigial Cold War paranoia.
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"Berman said there's a "fairly strong correlation" between economic downtown, and even more specifically deep recessions, and "democratic backsliding.
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He has undermined efforts by career diplomats to deliver messages to Washington about corruption and democratic backsliding in Hungary.
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" He has previously said that any backsliding on PrivatBank would spark a "deep crisis in relations with the IMF.
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There was always the risk, it seemed, of backsliding, even as a new menace — communism — rose in the east.
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A first bellwether of democratic backsliding is a resurgence of unabashed racial animosity as an accepted form of political argument.
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If anything, it is more vulnerable to backsliding than the regimes that failed in Poland, Hungary, Venezuela, Turkey, and elsewhere.
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Fabius is reiterating the need for a global environmental pact to prevent nations from backsliding on their environmental protection obligations.
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But there are worries that Spain is backsliding on its promise to tackle the abuse that happens in homes countrywide.
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The Commission has opened an unprecedented legal case against Warsaw over its backsliding on the rule of law and democracy.
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According to the researchers this indicates that there is a widespread public perception that democracies around the world are backsliding.
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Tory Brexiteers (and voters) know that Mrs May was a Remainer, so they will pounce on any hints of backsliding.
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After years of backsliding, heavily indebted Lebanon faces financial crisis without reforms to put public spending on a sustainable footing.
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Without that support, we face a critical backsliding in our efforts that could result in the needless loss of life.
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Crime remains a concern for New Yorkers, who fear backsliding even as the statistics in most categories continue their decline.
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"These sentences mark a new low for press freedom and further backsliding on rights under Aung San Suu Kyi's government."
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That Mr. Joko's government has chosen to respond to disinformation with disinformation signals a dangerous backsliding for democracy in Indonesia.
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The ratchets, preventing backsliding, consisted of rules preventing countries from going back on their previous commitments, except under certain conditions.
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We see good moments from all of them, but they're limited to whatever time isn't reserved for Annie's monotonous backsliding.
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Despite the backsliding, Mr. Stevens, the civil rights leader, said the consent decree had had lasting "ripple effects" in Pittsburgh.
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Without ongoing federal support, private sector momentum toward value could slow and maybe even lead to backsliding by some organizations.
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The bottom line: Backsliding is bad, particularly when it's largely the result of human choices, rather than mother nature's ingenuity.
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And much of the backsliding has been incremental, rather than transformational: strong democracies becoming weak, authoritarian states becoming more authoritarian.
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A recent book by two scholars, Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman, studied 25 cases of democracies backsliding into authoritarianism.
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"We can't accept backsliding or loopholes that undermine their success just to put more gas-guzzlers on the road," he said.
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A monitor's most recent report, submitted to the court last month, shows 22001 of the 13 regions in the state backsliding.
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Mr Moro said his appointment "means consolidating the progress against crime and corruption of recent years and preventing risks of backsliding".
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"Serious backsliding continued in the Turkish economy, leading to deeper concerns over the functioning of the country's market economy," it said.
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Democratic backsliding is a serious problem in a club membership of which is supposed to provide the kitemark for good governance.
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One reason for the uncertainty is that Americans don't really know what backsliding from democracy looks like, at least not firsthand.
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Its population is both shrinking and aging, while backsliding in the battle against chronic corruption has led to mass street protests.
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The Trump administration and its Republican allies have contributed to backsliding, especially by undermining competitive elections and the rule of law.
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It's also a striking symbol of what seems to be a broader — and highly disturbing — trend of democratic backsliding across Europe.
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In today's media-saturated culture, it sometimes seems as though the chief characteristic of the world is dysfunction and democratic backsliding.
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Establishing democratic institutions, including civilian control of the military, has thus been an arduous process riddled with uncertainty, backsliding and reversal.
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Another Netanyahu term could very well push Israel down the dark path of democratic backsliding we've seen in countries like Hungary.
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In a country backsliding, I vow to kick my 2016 mantra up a notch: Her success is my success is your success.
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" Tarullo said the meeting in Washington offered "a good moment to caution against backsliding on the considerable progress that has been made.
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Buried in there was an even more dramatic — and surprising — trend showing that women's health has been backsliding on many important indicators.
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Other backsliding couples include Scott Disick and Sofia Richie, Nikki Bella and John Cena, and, most importantly, Bella Hadid and The Weeknd.
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"We are not going to backslide even if the United States at the moment...is backsliding from its previous commitments," he said.
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Despite widespread concerns about backsliding, that figure is the lowest in the past half-century, though it remains high in absolute terms.
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They warn of the danger of "backsliding," with the government giving in to demands from Brussels, in order to reach a deal.
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That's why voter suppression efforts have escalated so much in recent years, and it's why we're now in a period of backsliding.
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The European Commission criticized Romania on Friday for backsliding on the rule of law and called on Bucharest to treat Kovesi fairly.
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Blaming the coup is to blame the symptoms and ignore the overall shock on the system caused by the preceding democratic backsliding.
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Instead, you get a simple "push your luck" system that will almost always deliver performance gains without taking major risks or backsliding.
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But he seems to be backsliding since, and his numbers against the Steelers (22 for 36 for 180 yards) were not strong.
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Last fall, though, when the company performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, there seemed to be some backsliding, or forward-sliding.
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"We're backsliding," said Kaine, who signed a law in 2009 banning tobacco use in restaurants and bars when he was governor of Virginia.
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The human rights movement, like the world it monitors, is in crisis: After decades of gains, nearly every country seems to be backsliding.
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The proposed standards will at the least prevent airlines from backsliding on emissions as tens of thousands of large new aircraft enter service.
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Such backsliding occurred in the 1960s, squandering the progress in the preceding decade against the disease in many countries, including India and Pakistan.
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The country had been making progress in cleaning up air pollution, but during the Trump administration, it has been backsliding, the report says.
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He urged ministers not to amend the criminal code via decree and sought to ease concerns about backsliding on commitments to tackle corruption.
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Reality has brought us here, with the Mets again backsliding, with Harvey cast off in large part due to his own bad-headedness.
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MPs and activists of the CDU/CSU will be wary of any signs that the "union" is backsliding after its disappointing election result.
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In the past, our halfhearted attempts at debt payment resulted in a lot of backsliding and bouncing debt from one card to another.
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But when I visited the country in June as part of a delegation from the Committee to Protect Journalists, I observed serious backsliding.
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Reflecting traders' optimism about reduced supply, prices for Brent crude, the international standard, rose on Wednesday morning, before backsliding later in the day.
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Certainly, Ukraine has manifold problems, but today it's a remarkably vibrant, multiethnic democracy in a region full of aggressive nationalism and authoritarian backsliding.
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Perhaps that's what Israel's decline should help Americans understand: that the consequences of its democratic backsliding are not limited to the home front.
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Brazil's backsliding on corruption may be the most dramatic and consequential in the region, given how much prosecutors accomplished in a few years.
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And we'll work very closely, and hopefully we can work in a constructive way that prevents a backsliding, and that is our hope.
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And the Trump administration and its Republican allies, specifically, have contributed to backsliding, especially through undermining competitive elections and the rule of law.
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A Democratic takeover of the House — the likeliest scenario at this point — can certainly help put a halt to, if not reverse, backsliding.
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And, at the same time, we're also seeing genuine democratic backsliding, which gives the impression that things are more dire than they actually are.
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They bounced back to beat the Nebraska Cornhuskers by 24 on Saturday, but it wasn't enough to keep them from backsliding in the rankings.
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It's not going to happen rapidly, but it will stop us from constantly backsliding into the same dehumanizing rhetoric, and the same old shit.
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Backsliding with reforms could also unsettle financial markets at a time when Greece is still vulnerable to shocks that are outside its control, however.
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This craven backsliding pleased no one, radicalizing many members of SNCC and the MFDP, and set the stage for the explosive 1968 Democratic Convention.
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Opponents who decried his release as evidence of impunity and backsliding in Brazil's battle against political corruption also called for protests over the weekend.
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Closer relations with the United States have helped, and backsliding on the thaw could further weaken Cuba's economy, already battered by low commodity prices.
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And in this case, backsliding likely means an escalation of violence that could easily morph into the sectarian murder-spree that occurred in 2014.
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"I will not say the same for Schumer and what he's ready to do with our community, because I think he's backsliding," said Gutiérrez.
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The U.S. and China seemed poised to reach a deal last week before reported backsliding from Chinese negotiators led Trump to impose harsh sanctions.
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The two parties reached a partial agreement and the EPA said it will conduct the so-called anti-backsliding study by March of 2020.
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What's next: Jackson told Axios she'll be focused on topics including... Preventing "backsliding" from the 100% renewables level as the company adds more facilities.
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After years of backsliding, heavily indebted Lebanon faces financial crisis without economic reforms to put public finances on a sustainable footing, its leaders say.
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If anything, there has been backsliding and more vivid violations of human rights, like the detention of foreigners and the settlement camps for Uighurs.
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He did not use the phrase "break the paralysis" referring to global action on climate change, nor did he use the words "government backsliding."
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America risks backsliding, though, on this progress if Mr. Trump acts on his recent statement that the United States has no role in Libya.
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But Trump's 2016 victory featured some backsliding in the suburbs for the GOP as he carried those voters 49% to 45% over Hillary Clinton.
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One was the age of the Biblical prophets, who preached divine justice against the backsliding of the people and the arrogance of the powerful.
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"In the onslaught of news where we see the world backsliding into authoritarianism this stands alone," Clooney said in the opinion piece for Deadline.
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President Reagan discovered that government backsliding on protecting Americans' health and the environment would not be tolerated by an awakened, angry and energized public.
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It's not hard to imagine India or China feeling less pressure to step up their efforts if the richest country on Earth is backsliding.
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It's not hard to imagine India or China feeling less pressure to step up its efforts if the richest country on Earth is backsliding.
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Lingering worries about the US economy backsliding have boosted prospects that interest rates will stay low for longer, curbing investor appetite for floating-rate loans.
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" But he warned that "the level of vigilance and scrutiny is obviously going to be significant in the days ahead" and cautioned against "a backsliding.
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A central element of democratic backsliding worldwide has been attacks on a professional and independent civil service capable of correcting or embarrassing would-be autocrats.
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But MPs, a large majority of whom are against a no-deal exit, wanted this enshrined in law, to prevent any backsliding by the government.
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The path favoured by most candidates involves staying on the party's previous course as an anti-establishment, populist party, ready to pounce on Brexit backsliding.
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Even with talk of backsliding in international trade, one of the most significant — and least publicized — global trade deals in decades recently went into force.
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Of course, there are likely to be crisis points and backsliding by both Washington and Pyongyang in the denuclearization process begun at the Singapore summit.
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But the president has talked more than he has acted, and his most notorious threats have not been realized.... Little actual backsliding occurred in 2017.
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These days there is no shortage of articles and books dealing with radical-right populism, despots, democratic backsliding, and the tactics that authoritarian leaders deploy.
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Sobotka said Babis' "authoritarian tendencies" could take the country in the direction of Poland and Hungary, which EU partners have criticized for backsliding on democracy.
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There is a clear danger that the union and its member states are losing their way, and are at risk of backsliding on fundamental commitments.
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That demands unanimity among European Union members and Turkey's backsliding on democratic standards has gone too far for European leaders to overlook it, he said.
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The strong economic performance and political stability in Chile stand out in a region rife with democratic backsliding, low economic growth, and high economic uncertainty.
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Any backsliding in carrying out the terms of the resolution would be taken up at the council's next session in September, a Western diplomat said.
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Sheri Berman, a political-science professor at Barnard College, has observed that process in her study of democratic backsliding in countries like Hungary and Turkey.
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Backsliding on the nationalisation of PrivatBank could not just cost Ukraine the IMF's programme but also undermine Western willingness to support it politically and militarily.
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"What I would count as democratic backsliding is a substantial negative change along three different elements or institutions happening at the same time," Huq says.
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" - Human Rights Watch said: "Today's action is a clear indication of the significant backsliding on human rights we've seen in Myanmar since the 2015 election.
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Concerns that Modi is backsliding on fiscal prudence pale, though, compared with worries about the Congress plan, according to several business people who spoke to Reuters.
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Lebanese leaders have warned of financial crisis without reforms and the government is seeking to put public finances on a sustainable path after years of backsliding.
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One of his colleagues, Mukudzei Kandoro Majoni, or "King Kandoro", fears there is "too much relaxation" among creative types, which might enable backsliding by the authorities.
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He added that in many areas refugee protections were backsliding with a growing number of countries trying to turn back refugees in violation of international law.
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Large firms, many state-owned, continued to outperform at the expense of small and mid-sized firms, with medium-sized companies backsliding the most in October.
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It's easy to imagine India or China feeling less pressure to step up their efforts if the richest country on Earth is slacking off or backsliding.
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"We are backsliding, we are on the wrong track," Dr. Kate O'Brien, Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Department of Immunization, told reporters on Wednesday.
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And over the weekend, the party hemorrhaged support in European Parliament elections after years of engaging in what Brussels considered backsliding in its fight against corruption.
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And then when it appeared that the North was backsliding on their agreements, or not following through with what they had promised, we reinstituted the exercise.
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The American position should be to ensure there is no backsliding from the progress Afghanistan has made on human rights, including women's rights, and constitutional government.
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President Barack Obama on Saturday insisted that American race relations are not backsliding as the country reels from police-involved shootings in Louisiana, Minnesota and Texas.
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Not only would it alleviate the perennial transportation funding crises that pop up in Congress every two years, but it would prevent backsliding on fuel efficiency.
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But we also know that "being himself" generally involves backsliding toward the days when he got by via faking falls on the snowy streets of Chicago.
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The European Union's biggest political faction, the European People's Party, meanwhile, suspended Orban's Fidesz party in March, citing its backsliding on democracy and the rule of law.
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But the backsliding in the Balkans is especially sad considering the vast amount of Western aid that was supposed to foster press freedom and good reporting there.
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Corruption scandals, democratic backsliding and assaults on the press stalk other eastern members of the EU, including Romania, which took over its rotating presidency on January 1st.
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Shortly after the Trump inauguration, I made the case that US politics displayed troubling echoes of the democratic backsliding other nations have suffered in the past decade.
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That means raising bank capital in places where it is too low, especially the euro zone, and not backsliding on strenuous "stress tests" as America's Treasury proposes.
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"Given potential backsliding in the U.S. and Australia, and among some other countries, it's reasonable to ask was 2016 a high watermark for climate finance?" said Thwaites.
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"German Constitutional Court's decision on the anti-coup rally in Cologne is an utter backsliding in freedom of speech and democracy," he said in English on Twitter.
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Poland's right-wing government has caused anxiety in Brussels, where EU leaders fear proposed constitutional reforms and a crackdown on opposition media could amount to democratic backsliding.
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Backsliding oil prices held back commodity firms and some emerging markets, however, meaning MSCI's All World index failed to get over the peaks it scaled last week.
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First, President Trump is committed to a North Korea without nuclear weapons, albeit some backsliding on the matter may be in the discussion, particularly the time-table.
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The promise and optimism that the removal of authoritarian rulers in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan brought have since soured through gradual backsliding in the years that followed.
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Cédric Alviani, the Taipei bureau director of Reporters Without Borders, said Taiwan has since become an "island of stability" in a region where press freedoms were backsliding.
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Since the end of the Cold War, "everyone has to claim to be a democracy," said Milan Svolik, a Yale professor who studies democratization and democratic backsliding.
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"We urge Burma to protect hard-earned freedoms, prevent further backsliding on recent democratic gains, and reunite these journalists with their families," it said in a statement.
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"Even though global democracy has experienced a general trend of backsliding in the past few years, Taiwan's democracy has persisted and continues to thrive," Ms. Chen said.
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These concerns are especially acute in countries going through "democratic backsliding": the process of moving away from a democratic political system and toward some version of authoritarianism.
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US administration officials also say Trump plans to confront Modi over troubling steps that amount to Democratic backsliding, like a new law that denies citizenship to Muslims.
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The draft of Trump's radical new Nuclear Posture Review leaked this month confirms just how far and how fast the United States is backsliding toward nuclear warfighting.
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"If another G20 leader put their daughter or son in the chair we'd be talking about democratic backsliding," Obama's former deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes tweeted.
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However, the club has fallen this year in the Premier League, backsliding from strong early season form, when they were as high as seventh, into fourteenth place.
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BACKSLIDING - Joins CHERRY-PICKING as an EU concern about British behaviour, especially as in "no backsliding" on a vow to keep Northern Ireland in regulatory alignment with the EU. BACKSTOP - The British promise to put that Irish deal into the withdrawal treaty "unless and until" a better solution is found that would not risk isolating the Northern Ireland economy from a British mainland which diverges from EU regulations.
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BACKSLIDING - Joins CHERRY-PICKING as an EU concern about British behavior, especially as in "no backsliding" on a vow to keep Northern Ireland in regulatory alignment with the EU. BACKSTOP - The British promise to put that Irish deal into the withdrawal treaty "unless and until" a better solution is found that would not risk isolating the Northern Ireland economy from a British mainland which diverges from EU regulations.
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If reductions are taken in concert with foreign powers, some producers gain new foreign markets, thus becoming supporters, and the international nature of the obligations makes backsliding harder.
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Regional Representative for Europe Birgit Van Hout expressed concern Tuesday that backsliding on rights and rule of law is also happening in Austria, Italy, Malta, Romania and Slovakia.
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Although the federal government says it has the right to impose a carbon tax unilaterally on recalcitrant or backsliding provinces, that power has not been tested in court.
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"We have to guard against backsliding, especially with this administration—turning the clock back on women's roles in everything from business and politics to the military," she said.
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In commodity markets, safe-haven gold saw big swings as well, climbing 3.5 percent to $1,320 an ounce as the dollar slid, but then backsliding to around $1,300.
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The European Parliament is due to vote today on whether to support a proposal by the European Union's executive to punish the Polish government for backsliding on democracy.
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After years of backsliding, the impetus to reform has grown due to economic stagnation and a virtual halt in the flow of dollars into Lebanon's banks from abroad.
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For the last decade or so "Turkey has been backsliding into a dangerous blend of authoritarianism and Islamism," said Schanzer, now at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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Yan explained that, particularly since the removal of Presidential term limits, last year, he had sensed a gradual backsliding, especially when it came to issues of free speech.
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Should people be worried about a declaration of a national emergency being part of a larger democratic backsliding in the US that has been written about so much?
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When you close one chapter of your life through a breakup, hooking up with your ex can feel like you're backsliding, but that doesn't necessarily mean you are.
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While the accident that killed Ms. Khatun was much smaller, it raised fresh concerns in the country that worker safety may be backsliding after years of remarkable progress.
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"It feels a bit like we're backsliding into the old days," said Marko Oraze, a member of Austria's Slovene-speaking minority who runs the Council of Carinthian Slovenes.
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But the long-term threat of democratic backsliding, of a major party undermining the small-d democratic system from within over the course of time, is very real.
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The AfD in Germany wants to disempower the European Court of Justice, which has been a source of recourse for those fighting democratic backsliding in places like Poland.
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Before that, some American politicians were more focused on castigating Turkey, a fellow NATO member, for backsliding on democracy and purchasing an antimissile defense system from the Russians.
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May's most likely successor — Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary — warned in an article in the tabloid The Sun that there must be "no backsliding" on a British exit.
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After a summer of backsliding in the polls, Harris has scheduled a series of intimate meetings designed to recapture the success of her earliest days as a politician.
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"In many of the contexts we look at comparatively, firing people from watchdog institutions and stocking those institutions with party loyalists is an early sign of backsliding," Huq says.
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They think that only by offering tariff reductions for good behaviour, and threatening new tariffs for backsliding, can they ensure that the Chinese keep their side of the bargain.
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What's more, even highly compromised democracies such as Russia, and now Turkey, maintain a semblance of democratic contestation and electoral process after more than a decade of democratic backsliding.
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If there is too much backsliding by the government and with the Labour party detached from many of its voters then Ukip's best days may be yet to come.
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If Trump is truly serious about counterterrorism and signaling "shared resolve" and "mutual respect" to Muslim partners, rhetorical backsliding to the language of the campaign is not an option.
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But despite such victories and the Democratic takeover of the House, democratic backsliding is still very much in play, if early signs from Republicans are anything to go by.
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The removal of trade barriers has played a significant role in reducing global poverty and encouraging peace between nations, achievements that could be eroded by tit-for-tat backsliding.
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If this trend continues, Europe could find itself backsliding toward historical ethnic and cultural antagonisms that bred the kind of conflicts we last saw during the breakup of Yugoslavia.
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But Fund officials are concerned that the country is backsliding on some of its promises, while reformist politicians and activists have questioned the authorities' commitment to enacting lasting change.
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" Brad Adams, Asia director for Human Rights Watch, said the sentences mark a "new low for press freedom and further backsliding on rights under Aung San Suu Kyi's government.
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But that would amount to backsliding on commitments made to Mr. Trump, the official told reporters in a briefing, where he insisted on anonymity to discuss the sensitive diplomacy.
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But the election of a new governor of Jakarta, the capital city, last week has raised concerns about whether the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation may be backsliding.
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Harris has been backsliding since her summer confrontation with Joe Biden, dropping so far in recent surveys that her once-promising campaign appears in danger of becoming an afterthought.
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A hallmark of democratic backsliding is the government exerting control over independent media outlets, as a compliant media allows the government to get away with other kinds of wrongdoing.
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Poland's governing party has recently been cracking down on its Constitutional Tribunal in similar ways, raising serious concerns that the rule of law is eroding and democracy is backsliding.
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But with the market now back challenging its longer-term trend (sitting directly at its 80-week moving average, in fact), the immediate risk looks to be for some backsliding.
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Clearly there's been some democratic backsliding in some countries, and we shouldn't be complacent about that, but at the same time there are other countries that have been moving forward.
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Trudeau said on Wednesday he would also raise his concerns about "backsliding" on women's rights in the United States and elsewhere with Pence, a social conservative and opponent of abortion.
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But amid perpetual concern about democratic backsliding — formerly democratic countries like Hungary and Turkey turning toward authoritarianism — it's also worth noting when institutions in established democracies show signs of life.
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That's left leaders, such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Macron, who put forth well-publicized displays of unity this weekend, to urgently warn of backsliding into history's darkest moments.
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But if the chaotic arrivals and states' beggar-thy-neighbor responses continue, together with backsliding on human rights commitments, they will eventually impose even greater political, social and economic costs.
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"The agency's job is to make sure there is no backsliding," said Daryl G. Kimball, the executive director of the Arms Control Association, a nonproliferation advocacy group based in Washington.
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It encourages a culture of silence among evangelicals about their struggles, since salvation is "supposed" to mean that temptation goes away, and any "backsliding" is the result of insufficient faith.
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Backsliding on women's rights would be a visible marker of failure and loss after 20 years' investment of American energy, lives and money to help create a stable, democratic nation.
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"The possibility for democratic backsliding is a real one, as history has shown," said Peter D. Feaver, a political scientist at Duke who is a Republican but opposed Mr. Trump.
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Many countries that seemed to be transitioning to democracy, like Egypt, Turkey, Thailand and the Democratic Republic of Congo, are backsliding; among the encouraging exceptions are Myanmar, Nigeria and Tunisia.
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Unless the president (a) reasserts pressure on Pyongyang and (b) imposes punishing secondary sanctions on China, it will amount to a complete U.S. backsliding to the feckless pre-Trump era.
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Snyder calls this approach "the politics of eternity," and he believes it's a common sign of democratic backsliding because it tends to work only after society has fallen into disorder.
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Hungary has been in conflict with European institutions over what critics say is Budapest's backsliding on democratic norms, with some controversial reforms affecting the independence of the judiciary and the media.
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These days, anything feels possible, including the overturning of same-sex marriage, and polls show that support for LGBTQ people has been backsliding for the first time since marriage equality passed.
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The UN target for eliminating global hunger by 2030 looks increasingly unlikely after three years of backsliding, with fragile food systems facing challenges that range from political instability to climate change.
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The conventional Italian interpretation of the shakeup this spring was either that the new right-wing government was backsliding on important reforms or else correcting the errors of the Prodi era.
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One of the hallmarks of democratic backsliding is the government exerting control over independent media outlets — as a compliant media allows the government to get away with other kinds of wrongdoing.
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Wiggins took strides in Year 2 before backsliding last year, but that could have been more about the adjustment to Thibodeau's strict principles than a true show of his defensive competence.
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A 22012 study by UCLA's Civil Rights Project found that despite great strides for integration in the first few decades after Brown, the past 20-plus years have seen extensive backsliding.
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Recent years have shown that democratization is not a permanent nor irreversible process, and we must remain vigilant in fighting backsliding and supporting our allies in the struggle to remain free.
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That means that countries we enter trade agreements with must offer sustained evidence that conditions on the ground have improved, and that we withdraw trade benefits when there's evidence of backsliding.
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"German Constitutional Court's decision on the anti-coup rally in Cologne is an utter backsliding in freedom of speech and democracy," Omer Celik wrote in English on his official Twitter account.
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The 2015 version of the team won the World Series on the strength of bunched hitting and a doomsday bullpen, strategies carefully cultivated and perfectly applied, but nonetheless prone to backsliding.
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But Thompson, who has doubled down on his defensive effort as he has struggled offensively, said Golden State had to avoid its well-documented problems with backsliding after a big win.
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While the official said he would "not necessarily share the conclusion" that the Sohae site was operational again, any use of it would be seen as "backsliding" on commitments to Trump.
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The watchdog report found that officials only completed one of the triannual impact reports in 85033 and never issued a report on whether air quality is "backsliding" due to biofuel mandates.
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The decision in Boston represents a backsliding on gay and transgender rights in one of the most liberal cities in the country, and it appeared to take many there by surprise.
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Amid a political upheaval and a economic crisis, Brazil is backsliding on its commitments to protect land rights, the Amazon rainforest and the indigenous people who depend upon it, environmentalists say.
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The combination of democratic backsliding, power grabs by the executive, and the militarization of policing is a problem by itself, and a precedent for future escalations and abuses of executive power.
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But democratic backsliding doesn't work that way — it happens slowly, through a series of steps that seem legal and benign in a vacuum but end up doing tremendous damage in the aggregate.
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Heather Nauert, a spokeswoman at the U.S. State Department, said in a statement released on Thursday that the United States was concerned about continued "democratic backsliding in Maldives" ahead of the vote.
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But the Bolivian case suggests that in situations where democratic backsliding is advanced and civil unrest on the rise, it is naïve to expect restoration to occur in a perfectly democratic fashion.
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Several instances this year suggested Kiev's leaders were backsliding on their commitments to stamp out graft, including attempts to delay the launch of an electronic system obliging officials to declare their wealth.
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The ultimate risk here is a kind of "democratic backsliding": a move away from democracy toward a system that looks democratic from the outside but in practice no longer has fair elections.
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And in early February, the ruling party of Poland, another country in the process of democratic backsliding, passed a law allowing politicians to fine and fire judges whose rulings they consider harmful.
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Although I was not officially invited, it was an opportunity to speak to attendees about ensuring there is no backsliding of the progress Afghan women have made in the past 18 years.
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This part of the world had little tradition of civil society and liberal democracy, and in his view these needed to be nurtured if the region was to avoid backsliding into autocracy.
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" He added, "It is, accordingly, also a good moment to caution against backsliding on the considerable progress that has been made toward a regulatory system that will provide just such a safeguard.
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While the grinding conflict and backsliding by Mr. Poroshenko's administration on economic and political overhauls have tarnished the revolution's ideals for Ukrainians at home, the 2014 uprising still resonates in the diaspora.
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America, a growing number of legal, political science, and other scholars argue, is vulnerable to democratic backsliding — and it isn't clear if a Democratic win in tomorrow's midterms will change that trajectory.
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Democratic backsliding refers to the subtle, gradual deterioration of democratic institutions and practices, the erosion of elements like free and fair elections, freedom of speech and association, and the rule of law.
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But perceived backsliding on reform commitments has delayed billions of dollars in IMF loans and tested the patience of Ukraine's allies even as Kiev pushes for closer EU integration and more foreign investment.
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It's a weapon that is crucial to fighting the range of challenges we face today — from a resurgent Russia, to instability unleashed by democratic backsliding worldwide, to the imminent threat posed by terrorism.
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At a time when Europe faces ostensibly existential challenges from the migration crisis to terrorist threats and Russian aggression, democratic backsliding in a number of EU member-states may seem trivial by comparison.
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Since the Wednesday proposal would only changed a definition, the DOE argued that it is not changing a standard, so it is not subject to a legal prohibition on "backsliding" with efficiency standards.
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Perceived backsliding by Kiev on its reform commitments, including delays in establishing an independent court to handle corruption cases, has held up billions of dollars in loans under Ukraine's $17.5 billion IMF program.
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"The EU27 have been consistent that there can be no backsliding on any part of December's agreement," Coveney was quoted as saying ahead of a meeting with fellow EU foreign ministers in Brussels.
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The distancing process — or "backsliding," as it's called — had started years ago, while I traveled around the world as a missionary and met Christians who believed in things like evolution and the Clintons.
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Analysts said Subramanian was flagging some backsliding on the deficit - if not next year then the year after - to account for an economy that is doing less well than the headline figures suggest.
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Lawyers and experts have criticized recent changes in the labor law, ordered by President Emmanuel Macron, for backsliding and say that, at every level, the administration's response has been either nonexistent or inadequate.
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Christians will still sin, of course, and stray from the path of righteousness — what's often known as "backsliding" in evangelical circles — but the idea is that faith is central to combatting those temptations.
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The Democrats cast themselves as the only party to stop Moldova turning back to Russia, which may have made the EU initially unsure of how to deal with the country's backsliding, Gherasimov said.
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Previously, experts have assumed that if a democracy is sufficiently "consolidated" — with elections, a strong civil society and a certain level of wealth — it is no longer at risk of backsliding into authoritarianism.
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"Obviously I'm very concerned with the situation around the backsliding of women's rights that we're seeing from conservative movements here in Canada, in the United States and around the world," Trudeau told reporters Wednesday.
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Still considered a close security ally, Turkey's candidacy to join the world's largest trading group is frozen because of "further serious backsliding" on human rights, judicial independence and stable economic policy, the Commission said.
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"Xulhaz and Tonoy were murdered at a time when Bangladesh witnessed increasing intolerance, political polarization backed by hatred and democratic backsliding," said Mubashar Hasan, a political analyst who teaches at the University of Oslo.
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Despite its international commitments, Mexico's government appears to be backsliding on climate, a disturbing trend that has gone largely unnoticed in the U.S. as we gape in horror at our own climate-denying president.
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As disappointing as we found the current situation on the ground, we are convinced that without continued, strong U.S. engagement we will very likely see a backsliding on what little progress has been made.
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So far, there has been no definitive progress on Britain's favored alternatives and, in a Twitter post, the Irish foreign minister, Simon Coveney, said there would be "no backsliding" on the Irish border issue.
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"(Lawmakers) urge Turkey to act against intimidation of journalists in all its forms, condemn its violent and illegal take-over of several newspapers ... and highlight its serious backsliding on freedom of speech," the parliament said.
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Even if this episode luckily ends up in the "false alarm" category, the angle of the rally has been far sharper than average, implying a good chance of backsliding no matter what the news flow.
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"We have done everything that we want to do in response to the financial crisis, but then there is the all-important implementation, and some people are concerned about backsliding, delays and dilution," Coen said.
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Finally, Trudeau said on Wednesday he would raise his concerns about "backsliding" on women's rights in the United States and elsewhere with Pence, a social conservative and one of the most prominent American abortion opponents.
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The events of the past few weeks have also exposed growing unease in some central European countries that governments may be backsliding on democracy almost 30 years after communism was pushed out of the region.
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On the one hand, European leaders have robustly criticized Turkey for what they see as rapid backsliding on democracy and human rights, especially during a crackdown in the wake of a failed coup in 2016.
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The dollar climbed off a three-month low after the minutes but was backsliding again in Europe on Thursday as the euro zone and Asia data handed the initiative back to the euro and yen.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission criticized Romania on Friday for backsliding on the rule of law and called on Bucharest to treat fairly Laura Kovesi, a candidate to become the bloc's first-ever chief prosecutor.
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There are many other examples of government-backed fraud in this election that cause many to fear Haiti is backsliding into dictatorship not seen since the rule of the Duvalier family, which ended in 1986.
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As the disease surges to its highest levels in more than a decade, it's imperative that we all come together to stop the world from backsliding any further -- and that means ensuring everyone gets vaccinated.
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In recent years, Turkey and the United States have disagreed on multiple issues, including the extradition of a Turkish preacher living in America, democratic backsliding, American citizens jailed in Turkey and U.S.-imposed steel tariffs.
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" Although the United States has vowed to continue sanctions against Pyongyang until North Korea surrenders its nuclear weapons and missile programs, Mr. Pompeo said China was backsliding on those economic penalties by "a modest amount.
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They have been backsliding ever since, looking less and less like a true contender as injuries have piled up, and they skidded into the All-Star break having lost 17 of their last 24 games.
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Now, in an odd nuclear safety yin and yang, while Japan's NRA strives to beef up its role as an effective, independent regulator, the NRC is backsliding towards becoming a cozy captive enforcing toothless regulations.
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James Humphries, who oversees the special victims investigations division in Montgomery County, Md., said he saw the willingness to report drastically backsliding in the county, where immigrants make up a large portion of the population.
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The episode is a lesson in how countries like Pakistan — with weak elected institutions and histories of repeated backsliding and breaks in civilian control — can get stuck in a gray zone between dictatorship and democracy.
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Facing unprecedented EU legal action over accusations of backsliding on democracy by politicizing Polish courts, the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party may seek to ease tensions in other areas like environmental policy or defense.
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A source with ties to China's leadership said there was deep anger in the government and party about Trump's accusations of China backsliding, especially as Beijing thought it was on the verge of a deal.
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But the endgame is a school so petrified of backsliding into irrelevance ithat it would rather chain itself to him at nearly any cost than consider the prospect of someone else overlaying on what he built.
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Still considered a security ally, Turkey's candidacy to join the world's largest trading group is frozen because of "further serious backsliding" on rights, the judiciary and economic policy, the Commission said in its annual progress report.
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That's because over the past few decades, countries that have drifted away from democracy have typically done so through a process called "democratic backsliding" — the slow erosion of a country's democratic institutions by its elected leaders.
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"Democratic backsliding" is a familiar diagnosis for Slovakia and other countries in the region whose governments are mired in corruption, as in Romania and Moldova, or have begun restricting liberal rights, as in Hungary and Poland.
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He was back two years later for an Asian summit meeting, but by then, there were already signs of backsliding by Myanmar's rulers, particularly in their treatment of the Muslim minority population, known as the Rohingya.
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The demonstrations put pressure on the government to provide relief from rising fuel costs, which could mean either backsliding on efforts to close Brazil's fiscal deficit or interfering in the state-run oil company's pricing policy.
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Indeed, some of the best scholarship we have on American democracy suggests that this is even more alarming than it sounds; that it fits historical patterns of democratic backsliding both in the United States and abroad.
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Stuart Hamblen, a "radio cowboy" who drank and gambled before Graham convinced him to stop backsliding, was an early convert, telling his radio audience he "heard the heavenly switchboard click" one night at the Canvas Cathedral.
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Democrats taking back the House — the likeliest scenario according to polls — could leave Republicans with a sense that he's vulnerable, and that they can afford to challenge him and join in investigations, reducing Trump-associated backsliding.
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There was also the sight of South Africa's rand backsliding after its best week in over two years and Turkey's lira and India rupee both struggled again as the rising in oil theoretically increased their import bills.
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His comments added to pressure on the government to provide relief from fuel costs, giving it the choice of backsliding on efforts to close Brazil's fiscal deficit or interfering in the state-controlled oil company's pricing policy.
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More importantly, the UK Independence Party, which claims Mrs May is backsliding over Brexit, jumped from third to second place, a result greeted by its new leader, Paul Nuttall, as "a small step on a long road".
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Despite the great progress made with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, we are backsliding at such a rapid pace that it's scary to think where black participation in electoral politics might be if the trend continues.
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"We are not going to backslide even if the United States at the moment…is backsliding from its previous commitments," European climate commissioner Miguel Arias Canete told reporters in Beijing this week, according to a Reuters report.
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The outpouring of anger against Babis, the second richest Czech with $3.7 billion in assets according to Forbes magazine, continues a spate of protests in central Europe over fears about democratic backsliding in the formerly Communist region.
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We may not reach the point of crisis that backsliding democracies like Turkey or Poland are seeing; Poland's ruling party is, as I write, purging judges who do not support its agenda, and replacing them with allies.
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Any fallout from the democratic backsliding can affect longer term investors like pension funds further down the line, since bonds' present value is linked to when they will be repaid, which is often 03-20 years away.
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After years of backsliding on reform, fear of economic catastrophe has forced action on Lebanese leaders who have overseen the post-civil war policies that landed the country with one of the world's heaviest public debt burdens.
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"If Mr Trump wants to leave the climate pact, then we must talk openly about trade relations and market distortions," Schulz said, suggesting that backsliding on environmental standards could harm U.S. access to the world's largest market.
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"Obviously, I'm very concerned with the situation around the backsliding of women's rights that we are seeing from conservative movements here in Canada, in the United States and around the world," Trudeau said, according to Bloomberg News.
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Defeating ISIS and negotiating with North Korea are two areas Trump holds up as major accomplishments at campaign rallies and on Twitter, and backsliding on progress could undercut his message and give fodder to his Democratic rivals.
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"Berman added: "Trump has created a more permissive environment for would-be dictators not merely by his responses (or lack thereof) to democratic backsliding and growing authoritarianism abroad; his actions at home have been crucial as well.
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SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - President Nayib Bukele's use of armed soldiers in El Salvador's parliament over the weekend has alarmed political foes and rights groups, with growing fears about democratic backsliding in the crime-ravaged Central American nation.
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Most of the changes can be accounted for using fairly common explanations of heart disease, from aging populations in states that are backsliding to regional differences in smoking rates and diet, Roth's University of Washington team concluded.
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Progress on women's rights is backsliding in the face of taunts and hostility on social media that seep into public discourse, politicians and activists said at a global conference on women's issues in Canada earlier this month.
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That said, on October 26, risks of backsliding appeared to return as Rajapaksa's successor sacked his prime minister (arguably unconstitutionally) and replaced him with … Rajapaksa, who is now serving under the president who beat him in 2015.
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Amnesty's report said judges and prosecutors had faced unfair disciplinary procedures and public criticism, particularly those who have accused Poland of backsliding on the rule of law and have approached the European Court of Justice with questions.
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Huq doesn't think we're in a constitutional crisis ( "I don't know what the term 'constitutional crisis' means, which I feel like is a very law professor thing to say," he jokes) or that we're engaged in democratic backsliding.
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It tells a story about how important it is to guard against backsliding into fascism, about how difficult it is to stay watchful when so much of the world is designed to make you sink into simple comforts.
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In How Democracies Die, Harvard comparative politics scholars Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt characterize 1937 as one of America's close calls with democratic backsliding, along with Richard Nixon's attempts to evade justice at the end of his presidency.
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The EU is wary of what it sees as rapid backsliding on democracy and human rights in Turkey, and was angered by rhetoric from President Tayyip Erdogan last year, including comparing the Dutch and German governments to Nazis.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will host Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos this month to discuss the implementation of Bogota's peace accord as well as efforts to counter "democratic backsliding in Venezuela," according to the White House.
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"This high-yield dim sum bond issuance is a sign which shows the offshore yuan market has started to recover after backsliding for two years," said Liao Qun, China chief economist at Citic Bank International in Hong Kong.
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Considering the perfect storm of factors alive today in the bilateral relationship — a rise in coca production, Trump's unfortunate threats about cutting economic assistance, and backsliding by Colombia on free trade — the path ahead is far from clear.
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Fears of backsliding into communism did not manifest around Poland as intensely as they had in Russia (in 19833, the United States became highly concerned when Boris Yeltsin faced a tough election against Communist Party challenger Gennady Zyuganov).
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mauritania is backsliding in efforts to eliminate descent-based slavery, an activist and opposition member has warned, as the West African country joined the U.N. Human Rights Council for the first time this week.
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"The 3,000 to 5,000 may prevent a near-term backsliding, but it is not going to be decisive in turning the tide of this war," said Michèle A. Flournoy, the top Pentagon policy official during the Obama administration.
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Trump's call with Omani Sultan Qaboos on conflict resolution is a positive first step toward righting his stance, but the president will have to avoid backsliding (or Twitter) if there is to be any hope for sustained progress.
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Many of the biggest stories in the last year — ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, democratic backsliding in Turkey and in Venezuela, regime change in Zimbabwe, a destabilizing power struggle in Saudi Arabia — come down, in part, to weak institutions.
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Huq doesn't think we're in a constitutional crisis ("I don't know what the term 'constitutional crisis' means, which I feel like is a very law professor thing to say," he jokes) or that we're engaged in democratic backsliding.
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In an unexpected reversal, President Barack Obama declined to sign a renewal of sanctions against Iran but let it become law anyway, in an apparent bid to alleviate Tehran's concerns that the U.S. is backsliding on the nuclear deal.
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"Given the substantial lead time for the standards, along with anticipated fuel efficiency gains for new aircraft types already in development by manufacturers, the standards will serve primarily to prevent backsliding in emissions," the group said in a statement.
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Experts on democratic backsliding were alarmed: This was a clear attempt by the president to exert control over the Department of Justice, an independent check on his authority, in order to shield himself from accountability for potentially criminal wrongdoing.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has stressed to China the importance of continued enforcement of sanctions on North Korea to press it to give up its nuclear weapons, after warning of signs of backsliding by Beijing.
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Pompeo told a U.S. Senate hearing this week he had seen "modest" backsliding by China, North Korea's neighbor and main trading partner, which Trump has courted on the nuclear issue even while threatening a major trade war with Beijing.
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As China challenges the United States for influence in Asia, the administration is concerned that any criticism of nations like Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Laos for backsliding on human rights could alienate them rather than pulling them closer.
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Mr. Farage said he intended to keep his Parliament seat in Strasbourg until Britain finally left the European Union, just to ensure that there was no backsliding — and undoubtedly to keep annoying the other legislators by his very presence.
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When one of America's two major political parties moves outside of accepted democratic practices, showing contempt for core liberal values, the possibility that they could push the system toward democratic backsliding (or its historically undemocratic norm) becomes significantly greater.
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"If Mr Trump wants to leave the climate pact, then we must talk openly about trade relations and market distortions," Schulz said, suggesting that backsliding on environmental standards could harm the U.S.'s access to the world's largest market.
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This would bring Ms. Merkel's Germany — the ideological anchor of the European experiment, maybe of the entire liberal Western order — into sync with Viktor Orban's Hungary, which is seen as representing the forces of nativism, nationalism and democratic backsliding.
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While they were unable to secure agreement on that provision, Democrats also tried to push for language on a no backsliding provision, forcing the EPA to set a drinking water standard for PFAS no higher than their current recommendation.
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In March, EU lawmakers called to formally suspend Turkey's accession talks, while the European Commision said last month that Ankara's bid of joining the bloc was fading as a result of "serious backsliding" on human rights, the judiciary and economic policy.
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However, EU diplomats said that Erdogan's invitation to Varna will come at the price of more sharp criticism from EU counterparts who say that Turkey has been backsliding on democracy and human rights since a failed coup in July 2016.
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"Institutions are likely to be effective [in stopping authoritarian backsliding] only if they are accompanied by strong social checks on political power: Through opposition parties, interest groups, NGOs, and the threat of contentious politics and mass mobilization," Haggard and Kaufman write.
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The violence in Rocinha is one more sign of the backsliding since the launch of a "pacification" program in 2008 to reduce violence by pushing out drug gangs and setting up permanent outposts in the city's more than 1,000 favelas.
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Garcia's crossover chops help guide Underwood to some strong pop and even hip hop sounds on tracks that really work ("Ghosts on the Stereo" and "End Up with You") and some that fall flat ("Backsliding," which under serves her impressive voice).
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's backsliding on Amazon conservation under right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro and a likely Peronist return to power in Argentina could delay or even derail ratification of an EU-Mercosur trade agreement that took two decades to negotiate.
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LONDON, July 25 (Reuters) - Turkey's lira climbed more than 1 percent on Monday as its post-coup attempt recovery continued, while emerging market stocks tested nine-month highs as a G20 vow to boost global growth helped offset backsliding oil prices.
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Under Mr. Morales, Bolivia was experiencing what has come to be known as democratic backsliding, a process whereby an existing democracy gradually acquires authoritarian features — never fully becoming a full-fledged dictatorship, but significantly undermining checks and balances and pluralism.
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After a meeting in Ottawa on Thursday, Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, said he told Mr. Pence that there was significant concern about a "backsliding" of women's rights and new "anti-choice laws" being passed in the United States.
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Civil rights watchdogs see the move as the latest erosion of democratic institutions under Mr. Orban, who since entering office in 2010 has created a blueprint for backsliding from the liberal democracy that took hold in Eastern Europe in the 1990s.
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A bipartisan group of several dozen House members is pushing for rules changes that they say will be tied to their vote for speaker in an effort to lock in a return to regular order and prevent the usual backsliding.
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The backsliding in Brazil has been watched closely across the region, where politicians have largely prioritized self-preservation over measures that would make judiciaries more independent, campaign financing more transparent and the public works contract process less prone to bribery.
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"After backsliding for all of the last week, the Trump-reflation trades are suddenly back on again, all stemming from the President's promise of a 'phenomenal' tax plan to be released within 2-3 weeks," said strategists at Macquarie in a Friday note.
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Pence will be in the city of Ottawa on Thursday to move forward with efforts to ratify the new US-Canada-Mexico trade deal, but Trudeau said Wednesday that he will also bring up the issue of the 'backsliding' on women's rights.
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The figures confirm growing concerns in Rio, a city and surrounding state home to more than 16 million people, that hard-won gains in security over the past decade are quickly backsliding along with Brazil's economy, now in its worst recession on record.
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On Wednesday, Pompeo acknowledged the United States has seen "a modest amount" of backsliding from China on sanctions enforcement, but insisted China's President Xi Jinping assured him they'll continue to work "side by side" with the US on achieving North Korean denuclearization.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The Irish government demanded on Monday that the European Union ensure Britain is not "backsliding" on an interim accord about the Northern Ireland border before EU leaders offer London a deal on a transition period at a summit on Friday.
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This particular type of character evolution has been a long time coming for all the gals — over the course of five seasons, we've watched them take tiny steps forward in the march toward maturity and with a lot of backsliding to boot.
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In "In Trump's Remarks, Black Churches See a Nation Backsliding," Sabrina Tavernise writes: On the day before Martin Luther King's Birthday, African-American churchgoers gathered as they always do, to pray, give thanks and reflect on the state of race in America.
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For those who fear backsliding in federal environmental policy, make a personal resolution in 2017 that this is the year to make your home more efficient, install solar panels and a green roof, use a compost bin and ride a bike to work.
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Ahead of a speech on Monday in which he will accuse ministers of backsliding, he said the Labour Party would put forward a proposed change to Brexit legislation currently going through parliament to make sure the government keeps to its promises on Northern Ireland.
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Tillerson's support for Colombia's accession to the OECD and his commitment to help with the "technical issues" required to get there sent a very positive message, but helping Colombia see the virtue in following through, not backsliding, on its trade commitments will require sustained focus.
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In a Europe shaken by Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, democratic backsliding in Poland and Hungary, Russian meddling and much more, Chancellor Angela Merkel's Germany was supposed to be a beacon of prosperity and stability, an indomitable defender of the international liberal order.
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In May, environment group Greenpeace estimated that China's CO2 emissions rose 20203 percent in the first quarter of 2018 after increasing 2 percent last year, adding that "backsliding" on earlier progress could result in China's biggest annual rise in emissions since 2011 this year.
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When right wing-populists find their way into office, the door is open to backsliding on the freedoms and protections of modern democracy as long as it's done in the name of providing order or harkening back to a time that the country was great.
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The immediate aftermath of #MeToo and Time's Up was encouraging, but lately the old pattern of backsliding has started to reemerge: Earlier today, it was reported that Charlie Rose might be pitching a television series where he interviews other men accused of sexual assault and harassment.
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"I've been hit more this year than I ever have been combined in my career," Marchand said after returning from concussion protocol to record a goal and an assist in the second period, leading the Boston Bruins to a 3-0 win over the backsliding Flyers.
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"Generally, tough economic times tend to exacerbate a lot of the negative trends that we associate populism and democratic backsliding," Sheri Berman, For President Donald Trump, who ascended to the White House on a wave of right-wing populism, a recession is a double-edged sword.
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As BoJack has alternated between trying to claw his way to being a better person (so to speak) and backsliding into bad habits and worse behavior, the series has increasingly turned a critical eye toward the very premise of "redemption" and the underlying tropes of antihero television.
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But Wednesday's ABC News/Washington Post survey for now cements her place in the current top-tier of Democratic candidates — a sprawling field of two dozen in which she had previously struggled to supplant more hyped rivals including Buttigieg and, at times, the currently backsliding O'Rourke.
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Morawiecki — whose nationalist government clashed with Timmermans in recent years over backsliding on the rule of law in the EU's largest ex-communist state - said differences between the bloc's national leaders were still very wide and a deal was not certain when they reconvene on Tuesday.
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Dublin said it was happy to accept as it bound London in to not "backsliding" on pledges May had made on the issue in December.. "We agree on the need to include legal text detailing the 'backstop' solution for the border," Davis told a news conference with Barnier.
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As detailed in a paper published this week in the European Journal of Physics, Wiesner and an international team of mathematicians, psychologists, political theorists, and philosophers focused on two features of complex social systems—feedback loops and stability—to better understand why democracies around the world are backsliding.
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But the text carried a warning that "nothing is agreed until everything is agreed" - a threat to May to avoid "backsliding" on a deal to let Northern Ireland remain regulated by Brussels if no better way is found to prevent a "hard border" that could risk the peace.
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Read: Brazilian politics is backsliding toward militarism, and the presidential election could make it worse At the heart of Folha's report was a Cambridge Analytica–like operation by a group of marketing companies who collected databases of WhatsApp users phone numbers that they would then spam with anti-Haddad fake news.
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In the governing program a modest carbon tax on airplane tickets and subsidies for public transport sit side by side with a head scarf ban for girls up to 14, deportation centers and a controversial new form of "security detention" for asylum seekers, a measure Ms. Zadic once called "authoritarian" backsliding.
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The general tech sector is a tougher nut to crack in terms of picking winners, and certainly Apple has seen some backsliding in the past, so holding, say, the Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLK) rather than being all-in on Apple might make sense — again, depending on your time line.
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"Given its systemic importance, Italy is a source of potentially significant spillovers to the rest of the euro area," the Commission said in its report, which also highlighted risks for the Italian economy from backsliding on efforts to cut state pension costs and an end to the bloc's easy money policies.
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"Obviously we are deeply disappointed by the backsliding on women's rights that we're seeing in some places around the world, including some American states," Trudeau said at a news conference in Paris just a day after Alabama's governor signed a law that bans nearly all abortions, according to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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"There is no doubt that Trump has created a more permissive environment for dictators by not forcefully speaking out against democratic backsliding and growing authoritarianism in places like Russia and China," Sheri Berman, a professor of political science at Barnard College with expertise in democracy, populism, and fascism, told Insider.
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A new report from the European Commission accused Turkey of "serious backsliding" in its attempts to meet the criteria for joining the EU. The report focused on the country's post-coup purge, which has seen President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan clamp down on opponents in the government, the military, and the media.
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"It is incumbent upon you and other spokespeople for our government to condemn all political violence and take a strong stand in opposition to such backsliding; leaving clear that U.S. assistance and cooperation with Brazil is contingent on the upholding of basic human rights and democratic values by its leaders," they wrote.
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The first is that we have gotten to where we are — a largely free-trade world — through a generations-long process of international diplomacy, going all the way back to F.D.R. This process combines a series of quid pro quos — I'll open my markets if you open yours — with rules to prevent backsliding.
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The jeremiad, based as it was on a cyclical view of history, provided a structure in which a speaker would document just how debauched his brethren had become, how much backsliding had taken hold of a new generation, only to turn around to a call for redemption — moving from decline to reawakening.
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But the word "backsliding" itself hints at a crucial difference between populism and fascism: In the former, the danger is a gradual erosion of democratic norms and institutions; in the latter, democracy ends through a revolutionary, often violent, conquest of power, which historically occurred only because democracy had already essentially ceased to function at all.
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" On Friday the European Union leaders emphasized that there must be no backsliding on that deal, adding in a set of guidelines that "negotiations in the second phase can only progress as long as all commitments undertaken during the first phase are respected in full and translated faithfully into legal terms as quickly as possible.
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She'll be elected on a platform to Obama's left, she will almost certainly at least attempt to govern at least somewhere in the neighborhood of that platform, and will be met with ferocious opposition in the streets and in the Senate — at least from Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren there — for any backsliding whatsoever.
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"It is incumbent upon you and other spokespeople for our government to condemn all political violence and take a strong stand in opposition to such backsliding; leaving clear that U.S. assistance and cooperation with Brazil is contingent on the upholding of basic human rights and democratic values by its leaders," the House Democrats wrote to Pompeo.
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The United States has been alarmed at the backsliding of democracy in Turkey in recent years under Mr. Erdogan and the mass arrests conducted since the failed coup that have even swept up a dozen United States citizens, some of whom have been in jail for over a year, and two longstanding Turkish employees of United States Consulates.
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In a series of strongly worded letters, reviewed by The New York Times and presented at Friday's meeting of FIFA's governing council, the clubs and leagues accused Infantino of backsliding on his promise to lead through consensus, and of putting player health in jeopardy with plans for a new expanded international club tournament and a global women's league for national teams.
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The strong outpouring of concern at recent comments by Democratic leaders is a vocal fear of backsliding at a time where we stand to gain ground by rallying around genuine pro-choice values: the commitment to drive down rates of unintended pregnancy through universal access to birth control, legal and accessible access to abortion, and support for working people who want to expand their families.
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Best-case scenario for the cheaper strata of this market would be for all this "late-cycle" talk and investor positioning to be revealed as badly premature — for investors to gain assurance that in fact U.S. economic growth can continue above trend for a few more quarters, that credit markets will stay open for leveraged companies and That would make the current market slippage and any further backsliding a buying opportunity for stocks, and that could include the value names.
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Secondly, the role of the international community in supporting aspirations like securing and expanding the gains for women in human rights there, that are not just American policy objectives, they are human rights objectives that are consistent with what the community of nations wants to see and I believe what the Afghan people want; and our own responsibility because of the fact that we changed the trajectory of that country, to ensure that there is no backsliding, especially when it comes to the rights of women.
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A slightly more sophisticated calculation gives Democrats a net pick-up of 18 seats.) But other external shocks (such as an economic downturn, a global trade war, a final report from special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE that charges those closest to the president with criminal wrongdoing in the Russia investigation, or a backsliding on the rapprochement with North Korea) could push Republicans who are presently queasy about Trump (conservative Catholics and moderate Republicans) away from his new brand of the GOP.
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