The phrase "action the first step of" is not correct in English.
It seems to be an incomplete or improperly structured expression.
Example: "Taking action is the first step of achieving your goals."
Alternatives: "the initial step of" or "the first phase of".
Democratic Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, too, said he supports Obama's actions as "the first step of a comprehensive public safety plan that Congress must act upon," the Associated Press reports.
The protest comes as OFA is laying the groundwork for legislative action on climate change, the first step of which involves targeting so-called climate deniers in Congress.
Jurors in the Aurora shooting trial found on Thursday that the defendant's actions included "aggravating factors" – the first step of three required to sentence James Holmes to death.
GSH influences melanogenesis by directly inhibiting the action of tyrosinase (the enzyme catalysing the first step of the process), by combating free radicals that stimulate the action of tyrosinase, and by increasing the ratio cysteine to dopaquinone [21].
The chapter presents the triple structure and normative actions that is considered in the first step of designing the alternatives.
The compound is probably derived from chorismate by action of a chorismate lyase, resembling the first step of ubiquinone biosynthesis.
The first step of our action classification approach is to extract spatiotemporal interest points from the input video sequences.
Supporting the people of Western Africa during the Ebola epidemic is the first step of the action 'moving the disease control frontline onto the "battlefield" anywhere in the world' of the China CDC.
The first step of any action plan to prevent osteoporotic fractures is raising awareness [ 17].
Paragraph (a) establishes that the first step of contesting a civil forfeiture action is to file a claim.
