The State Department said the move both rewarded progress and aimed to prevent backsliding on reform.
And in America, the global rules are proving an important bulwark against protectionist backsliding.
While developing countries are lowering their maternal mortality rates, the United States is backsliding.
But the rapprochement has been slow, fueling concerns that Turkey may be backsliding on its commitment.
The WTO should resist that, and keep sounding the alarm at signs of G20 backsliding.
On all these fronts, much of post-Crisis Asia is dragging its feet or simply backsliding.
The greater the backsliding, seemingly the more unconditional becomes U.S. support for the should-be reformer.
Mrs Clinton warned against the possibility of "backsliding" if the military-backed leadership did not introduce further reforms.
Congress went to great lengths to ensure that work requirements aren't subject to waivers to prevent backsliding.
Central-bank purchases will not alleviate the pressure on backsliding governments if countries have to meet specific conditions.
It is easier to act if the action does not reward countries if they are overspending and backsliding.
The Parisian air is already thickening with accusations of backsliding and treachery, and mutterings about a hot autumn.
Such backsliding, even if founded on a realistic assessment of the risks, is bound to antagonise his opponents.
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Despite political backsliding everywhere and at all times, the broad sweep of global change continues in the Friedman direction.
The U.S. must impress on Syria that Syrian backsliding on terrorism will have an immediate, profound and negative effect on U.S.-Syrian relations.
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He said assurances were needed that there would be "no further backsliding".
In and of itself, Mr Cameron's backsliding on his own veto is not as important as the furore surrounding it might suggest.
Bottom line: EU backsliding will promptly remove any moral mantle Europeans who opposed the war in Iraq wrapped themselves in three years ago.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls, for Labour, said it was vital the government implemented the "important" reforms without "foot dragging, backsliding or watering them down".
To be sure, much of this backsliding is in response to attacks by Democratic opponents who are undoubtedly worse and shamelessly demagoguing the issue.
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If there is backsliding on these issues, it will affect the appetite of U.S. companies and other foreign companies to enter the Chinese market.
We are also maintaining our current authorities to help ensure further reform and to retain the ability to reinstate selected sanctions if there is backsliding.
Extending the sanctions order would "maintain the flexibility necessary to target specific bad actors and prevent backsliding on reform", a department official said in a briefing.
To argue that they have been backsliding, or reneging on their obligations, or free-riding on the goodwill of other eurozone economies is inaccurate and quite unfair.
We both recognized the need to empower reformers in and out of government, protect against backsliding, and ensure the broader Burmese public feels the changes afoot.
Hungarian legislative leaders and Mr. Orban said that concerns about democratic backsliding in Hungary are unfounded and that their actions are in accord with EU treaties and norms.
But, at the very least, the Geneva deal ought to stop the Europeans backsliding on their reforms and also ought to force changes to America's grotesque farm subsidies.
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Although some countries are continuing with reforms, others are backsliding.
One crucial element to the Annan proposals is that they are designed to be binding on the parties as different sections are agreed, so there will be no backsliding.
One of its purposes was to square away those offers in the face of a total collapse of the conference: to provide a ratchet that, while not offering progress, limited backsliding.
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