Attempts are being made to harden it, with measures like electronic access cards for vulnerable areas, but ambitious steps, like a network of video cameras in subway stations, remain mostly talk.
This is a call, once and for all, to take ambitious steps to address climate change, which is now affecting lives and livelihoods.
More ambitious steps could include passing national legislation to toughen background checks, which are not currently required for guns bought from unlicensed, private sellers.
But focusing on the amount of instruction, and its efficiency, also points toward more ambitious steps.
It isn't clear whether more ambitious steps will follow.
In 1890, Trumbauer opened his own office, an ambitious step for a 21-year-old; one of his first projects was a jail in Jenkintown, Pa.
The album marks an ambitious step for the Houston-born Ms. Knowles, who — as a solo artist (using only her first name) and as a member of the trio Destiny's Child — has sold more than 75 million albums worldwide.
The proposal marks a more ambitious step for Alejo, who last year authored a bill that would have mandated that the state Department of Education commission a study on the benefits of creating an ethnic studies curriculum.
Even so, this is an ambitious step forward for Shechter.
Still, the collection was an ambitious step up for Mr. Wang, and despite the moving parts, it looked polished.
This $3 million makeover of the Silver Bullet Saloon is an ambitious step up for the Port Authority bus terminal.
