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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'a disastrous step' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a decision that had undesirable or unfavorable results. For example, "The company decided to lay off half of its workforce, which proved to be a disastrous step."
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Executing Yan, on the other hand, would be a disastrous step in the wrong direction.
President Dilma Rousseff vetoed several of the most controversial amendments last month, but conservation groups say the bill is still a disastrous step backwards.
How many frustrated kids whose only outlets for aggression are Call of Duty, sports, or hip-hop will take a disastrous step in illogic and see ISIS as the real-life evocation of those fantasies?
A disastrous step back from his dazzling Bully, this was a manky old underdeveloped script from Harmony Korine that has been knocking about for ages: the usual array of young-flesh money shots and slacker attitude, but without the style or satirical insight.
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It represents a potentially disastrous step backward, and it's time to shine more sunlight on it.
Eventually, if the storage capacity is exhausted, Iran will be forced to shut down some of its production, a potentially disastrous step that it is trying to avoid, analysts say.
The Roman Catholic church and other groups talk of embryo stem cell research as a "dehumanising" and disastrous step.
Unhelpfully for the Prime Minister, this proved an even more disastrous step, and as the Iraqi army moved out, in poured hundreds of vehicles flying the flag of the al Qaeda originated, homegrown jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) from the surrounding desert.
Unhelpfully for the prime minister, this proved an even more disastrous step — as the Iraqi army moved out, in poured hundreds of vehicles flying the flag of the al Qaeda originated, homegrown jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) from the surrounding desert.
Unhelpfully for the Prime Minister, this proved an even more disastrous step – as the Iraqi army moved out, in poured hundreds of vehicles flying the flag of the al Qaeda originated, homegrown jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) from the surrounding desert.
Do they believe that Democrats would take the politically disastrous step of moving to impeach Trump even if Mueller fully exonerated him?
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