Sentence examples for approved steps from inspiring English sources

On the same day China's legislature approved steps to turn competing civilian agencies into a unified coastguard.

The cabinet has already approved steps toward banning the bags, termed daisies here because they dot so much of the countryside.

The majority held that the state's interest in proper identification an interest it already expresses through constitutionally approved steps such as fingerprinting and mugshots—outweighs the slight incursion into the suspect's already diminished expectation of privacy.

The fact that not one of the agency's 238 skilled craft workers was a woman, she wrote, represented proof of sexual discrimination, and she approved steps to correct the imbalance.

Mid-Ulster council has announced it approved steps to develop Neolithic landscape stretching from Broughderg to Carrickmore down to Pomeroy.

The City Council conditionally approved steps that would allow residents of Laguna Terrace Park to buy the ground under their mobile homes.

The union has asked federal officials to approve steps that could eventually lead to a strike, but that permission has not been granted.

Beijing has been hesitant to approve steps to further democratize Hong Kong's semiautonomous government, like making the top government post directly elected.

But almost half the cabinet voted against the plan or abstained, even though they were asked only to approve "steps required by the road map" rather than endorsing the document itself or the final goal of a Palestinian state.

To ease such frustration, the F.D.A. just approved some steps to help more ill patients get Propulsid more quickly, including letting doctors seek a 60-day emergency supply of pills before a patient is formally accepted into the program.

The council has approved the steps in the 17-point plan all along the way, including purchasing the vans.