Sentence examples for made major steps from inspiring English sources

"I thought we made major steps," Roberts said.

And the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Ms. Warren helped to establish, has made major steps in this direction.

The big office buildings in flood zones have made major steps to move systems or flood-proof them, so the core of our economic system can bounce back, and people can go to work and get paychecks.

This new wave has already made major steps, but only time will tell just how far they can push.

Under Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation made major steps towards the abolition of slavery in the nation, and shortly after his death the 13th Amendment to the Constitution formally ended the horrific practice.

In recent years, advances in technical fabrication and biological integration have provided new insights into biological phenomena, improved diagnostic measurements, and made major steps towards de novo tissue creation.

Often you see that children after overcoming a childhood disease make major steps in their development, acquisitions, and this again allows a good development to overcome these illnesses" (VD03).

Rather than falling to pieces, the group, which formed in 1999, made major adjustments: Eric Pulido, its lead guitarist, stepped into the foreground as a singer, and the songwriting became a communal affair.

"It's undeniable that at this very moment China has made some major steps forward in the fight against H.I.V.," said Mr. Bekedam, who heard Mr. Gao's speech.

But Polis pointed out that the president made two major steps forward: Obama signed into law a repeal of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy that barred gays from the military and announced that his administration would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a law requiring marriage to be between a man and a woman.

A joint venture between Novartis and BioTransplant, a Charlestown, Mass.-based biotech, have made a major step forward in using cloning technology to create pigs that could be used as a source of hearts and kidneys for transplantation into people.