For the new leaders of Somalia, who were chosen during the past few weeks at a peace conference in Djibouti, the country to the northwest, it was a hopeful first step in restoring order and a central government to a nation with neither since 1991.
Israel's withdrawal from Gaza should be celebrated as a necessary first step in restoring freedom and independence to Palestinians, in a process where all sides stand to gain.
I believe a critical first step in restoring trust in government is for voters to send a very strong message in November.
Figuring out what went wrong is important but is only a first step in restoring investor confidence.
Acting director general Tim Davie, in his first day in the job, outlined plans to deal with the Newsnight scandal "as a first step in restoring public confidence in BBC journalism".
Mr. Clark and two of his Prayer Warrior friends, Devlin Scott, 17, and David Anderson, 16, were among scores of people who testified at that meeting, which city officials called a first step in restoring school prayer.
If the ladder works, and nobody knows if it will, it may be a first step in restoring spawning grounds as they existed more than three centuries years ago, before grist mill dams, since replaced by flood-control dams, first shortened the alewives' run up more than 12 miles of river to headwaters in what is now Brookhaven National Laboratory.
The BBC Trust said on Sunday night that it had had a discussion with Mr Davie and was "looking forward" to him setting out his plans for dealing with some of the issues arising from the 2 November Newsnight broadcast on Monday "as a first step in restoring public confidence".
But a new inspector general would represent an important first step in restoring trust in law enforcement all over the city.
Cuban sources also confirm that Leahy's early move to ease prisoner conditions was seen in Havana as a vital first step in restoring trust.
