Sentence examples for early step toward from inspiring English sources

Still, Americans and Iraqis hailed the new battalion as a small, early step toward Iraqi self-rule.

Or was he, in fact, upset because his sister was upset — an early step toward empathy, sympathy, kindness and charity?

European colonists formed a local legislature as an early step toward self-government, although its members represented only a small fraction of the wealthy elite.

His innovations at Canterbury are considered an early step toward the High Gothic practice of "dissolving" the walls between supporting verticals.

Flesch Tied With Woods Steve Flesch has played very little links golf, but he took an early step toward joining Bob Charles (1963 British Open) as a left-handed major winner.

The decision to pare down books is provoking a practical intellectual debate among writers, publishers and archivists, and among its most provocative aspects is whether this sort of slice-and-dice Web publishing is an early step toward eliminating paper versions of some books.

Early steps toward unifying the brigades under a common command have brought out latent divisions among rebel leaders.

The election next week will be only one of the early steps toward creat ing a nation that can stand on its own.

Ms. Isbin figured in one of Ms. Mentzer's early steps toward musical diversity, in 1998, when the two made an Erato recording, "Wayfaring Stranger".

Dell had passed early steps toward approval, but the office turned it down, after protests from industry experts that cloud computing had become a broadly descriptive term, and not one linked to a single company.

A crucial aspect of the final health reform bills is that they take early steps toward trying to distinguish between care that makes people healthier and care that does not.