Sentence examples for first step in a plan from inspiring English sources

Harikrishna's 22 Bc4 was the first step in a plan to reduce material to neutralize Zhang's central pawns and attacking possibilities.

The ruling is the first step in a plan laid out by General Musharraf ahead of parliamentary elections he wants to hold in January.

Ms. Bresch said schools were just the first step in a plan to make emergency epinephrine injectors more widely available in restaurants, airplanes and other public places, much as external defibrillators are today.

Staples, the giant office supply company, had sold part of Staples.com to Staples insiders and venture capitalists in 1999, the first step in a plan to spin off the Web business to the public.

He also said that the incident appeared to be "a first step" in a plan to "seize control of the high seas... [and] to drive American commerce from the ocean".

Now battling to get its public finances under control, the Greek government has proposed measures that it claims will reduce the budget deficit to 8.7 percent, from 12.7 percent of gross domestic product this year — the first step in a plan to push it below 3 percent, the limit for euro membership, by 2012.

It is reported that the action is the first step in a planned reduction of as high as forty-five per cent of bureau personnel.

The activists see such community projects as  the first steps in a plan to limit individual rights.

It was in that same spirit of entrepreneurship and brand extension that city marketers recently commissioned a new, "iconic" taxi-medallion design, the first step in a larger plan to "build equity" in the Taxi and Limousine Commission.

Democrats said this was the first step in a Republican plan to privatize Medicare, the federal health program for 40 million elderly and disabled people.

They see it as the first step in a bigger plan.