Sentence examples for a terrible step from inspiring English sources

It is a terrible step to have to take.

But Camp David was a terrible step in the wrong direction, in my view.

"It was a difficult decision and a terrible step backwards, but we eventually decided we had no choice but for me to move back into the family home".

"It was a terrible step down, being a judge after being President of the Earth," he said.

It was lonely and chaotic, a terrible step down from normal-town life, and the roosters were its demonic outgrowths somehow, channeling its direst energies.

Abbas was trying "to placate and somehow smooth over the fact that he made a terrible step away from peace," Netanyahu said, calling on the Palestinian leader to "tear up your pact with Hamas.

He described the new education policy of returning academies to the control of local authorities as a "retrograde" and "terrible step".

Or, the Americans yearning for bigger homes could help to keep the slowdown from going that extra, terrible step.

The giant's hardware, however, is far in excess of anything the US military can rustle up - and the nuclear button looks like the next terrible step.

These could be convincing reasons for suicide – but I'm not sure the programme showed us why, in Creighton's case, they were enough to prompt him to take this terrible step.

The reason for the massacre, according to historian Gerhard Weinberg, was that Stalin wanted to deprive a potential future Polish military of a large portion of its talent: It has been suggested that the motive for this terrible step [the Katyn massacre] was to reassure the Germans as to the reality of Soviet anti-Polish policy.