Sentence examples for key stepping stone from inspiring English sources
The representation of masculinity embodied in Help! is a key stepping stone to more obvious displays of gender fluidity that were to emerge in later decades.
The completion of the Start follow-on, as well as the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty by Congress, are seen as a key stepping stone of "getting to zero" — achieving a world without nuclear weapons.
Although it lacked some characteristics now associated with computers, Colossus can plausibly be described as the first electronic digital computer, and it was certainly a key stepping stone to the development of the modern computer.
The Taliban's seizure of Tirin Kot, in the mid-nineties, was a key stepping stone in their march to Kabul, and their loss of the town in 2001 was a decisive moment in their fall.
There is a long-term strategy to be a brand worth one billion dollars and to win the Champions League, and the purchase of Di María from Manchester United was a key stepping stone towards that aim.
To those who believe Brown "lost" his dressing room the moment he humiliated those players on the Eastlands pitch at half-time on Boxing Day, it represented yet another key stepping stone along the Hull manager's hubristic road to inevitable relegation and attendant ruin.
Defusion is not the only way out of suffering -- but it is one of key stepping stones.
West End was one of the key stepping stones to what would later become house music and for many is the definitive sound of early 80s New York.
It not only protects a lowland forest, but also, given its proximity to the Andes, could also serve as a key "stepping-stone" for climate-change driven species migrations between the Amazon forests and upslope forests found in Sumaco, Llanganates, and Sangay National Parks.
Our work gives a comprehensive understanding of the homoeolocus expression patterns characteristic of bread wheat genes, providing a key stepping-stone towards understanding the relationship of wheat variation with differential homoeolocus expression patterns.
Buckland sees Sochi as a "big stepping stone".
