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The phrase "a substantive step" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to refer to a significant or meaningful action taken towards achieving a goal or making progress in a situation. Example: "The committee took a substantive step towards improving community relations by organizing a town hall meeting."
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Although imposing a cap is seen as a substantive step toward reducing carbon emissions, it is unlikely to have much impact on current U.S. energy-industry practices.
It is time we come through on this promise and take a substantive step toward making New York more inclusive than ever.
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But the White House has yet to comment on the visit, and Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday that North Korea has failed to take any substantive steps to give up its nuclear weapons.
"This bill is a substantive first step toward reinforcing bedrock ethical principles of the marketplace and restoring investor confidence, but there is still more work to be done," Mr. Baker said.
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On Monday, the National Institutes of Health released a fifty-eight-page report on the future of neuroscience — the first substantive step in developing President Obama's BRAIN Initiative, which seeks to "revolutionize our understanding of the human mind and uncover new ways to treat, prevent, and cure brain disorders like Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, autism, epilepsy, and traumatic brain injury".
His most substantive step in that direction was his campaign to rework First Boston's bloated compensation structure.
Introduction of the House budget will be the first substantive step toward any bipartisan legislative deal on the deficit, but the path forward is narrow and steep.
According to Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn, the first substantive step will be taken on Oct. 20 with the beginning of the process of scanning Turkish legislation in order to determine what changes are needed to bring it into line with the E.U. "acquis communautaire".
For instance, the right to physical security implies not only that all citizens within a state refrain from assaulting one another, but also that the government undertake substantive steps to sustain a coercive system of justice and a police force.
Still, because the H1N1 pandemic strain, or swine flu, has generally not been more virulent than ordinary seasonal flu, airports, hotels and airlines are trying to find a balance between showing that they are taking substantive steps and not acting so aggressively that they set off a panic among travelers.
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