The reporters at first strode in a pack all over the bridge, but then began to realize that the surface of the walkway was peppered with vast gaping fissures.
When Indiana Jones (played by Harrison Ford) first strode into the Peruvian rainforest in 1936, at the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), it was clear even to a little kid that he had the coolest job on earth.
Some horses need a half halt in the first strides of their cantor or trot in order to establish the rider's control over the pace.
The mid-1950s saw not only the first significant strides in the career of the American saxophonist Phil Woods, who has died aged 83, but also the sudden departure of Charlie Parker, bowing unceremoniously out of his chaotically brilliant life in 1955 at only 34.
Sony, one of the most recognizable Japanese companies in terms of brand awareness and products, first made strides in governance in 1997, when it established a so-called corporate executive officer system for more upper-level oversight of daily operations.
Synthesis of epoxides involved two steps: in the first stride, different vegetable oils (grapeseed, avocado and olive) were converted into methyl esters by transesterification reaction using KOH as catalyst and methanol as acyl acceptor.
When the first act curtain came down, one protagonist left the stage licking his self-lacerated wounds, while the second strode off in triumph.
In his first Ashes series in 2001, "Gilly" strode in at seven and belted 340 runs at a batting average of 68.00, as well as nabbing 26 dismissals.
The first major stride in that direction is needed.
At the final whistle, supporters teeming on to the streets may have just believed they had witnessed the first purposeful stride in United's revival after a year they would rather forget.
