Sentence examples for far-reaching step from inspiring English sources

Instead, Byers has taken what could be a bold and far-reaching step.

Because of concerns regarding potential threats on its southern flank, Russia may not be prepared for such a far-reaching step.

Following the Mount Pleasant fiasco, Islington has announced plans for a supplementary planning document addressing viability, which both Colenutt and McAllister agree is the most far-reaching step that any local authority has taken to date.

Over the weekend, America took a little-noticed but far-reaching step in its policy toward Asia--one that is likely to arouse the ire of China, Myanmar (Burma) and other repressive governments.

One official said the most far-reaching steps were the least likely to be adopted.

But still, a powerful, single-party government is supposed to be able to make determined and far-reaching steps.

After that terrible crime, countries – including those in the Arab world – were ready to embrace far-reaching steps.

"We have to get through the Iraq crisis and after that maybe get to more far-reaching steps," Mr. Shalom said.

LUXEMBOURG — European Union finance ministers agreed Tuesday on far-reaching steps to tighten oversight of national governments' budgets and crack down on falsification of economic data.

That might free her hands to take more far-reaching steps to address the crisis, as her finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, hinted during the negotiations leading to this week's agreement — and his opponents acknowledged, sardonically.

Most recently, the union and management agreed to far-reaching steps to help more than a thousand janitors, security guards and others who lost their jobs when the World Trade Center was destroyed.