The phrase "any significant step" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing actions or measures that have considerable importance or impact in a particular context.
Example: "The team has not taken any significant step towards resolving the ongoing issues."
Alternatives: "any meaningful action" or "any important measure".
"Any significant step … to improve our retaliatory capability will involve serious political and presentational difficulties," a secret policy document admitted.
Any significant step forward by China will rob the US Senate of one of its principal arguments for dragging its feet.
Michael Gove, the justice secretary and prominent leave campaigner, said: "Logically, in the days after a vote to leave, the prime minister would discuss the way ahead with the cabinet and consult parliament before taking any significant step".
"There are no indications from the Indians that they are prepared to take any significant steps," a senior Administration official said tonight.
Israel, seeing the prospect of even more hostile governments as its neighbors, is insisting on caution and time before taking any significant steps.
"had to reflect the deteriorating fiscal situation and we won't see any significant steps of fiscal tightening until after the election and that will calm the rating agencies," said Brian Hilliard, a senior economist at Soci? G rale in London.
Re "Unrelenting Attacks on Women in West Sudan Provoke an International Outcry" (news article, Oct. 26): Although there has been an "international outcry," this has not led to any significant steps to halt the violence.
Specifically, while Mueller does not have to report day to day to the attorney general, he or she has the power to approve any "significant steps" taken in the investigation or to overrule them.
Accordingly, many lawmakers say the year could be dominated by the same sort of paralysis and political finger-pointing that marked the last session and thwarted any significant steps toward deficit reduction.
It also seems unlikely that his government will take any significant steps to curb greenhouse gases; such curbs are very unpopular in Western Canada, home to the country's large oil and gas industries.
So far the administration hasn't taken any significant steps to make those recommendations a reality.
