"make a first step" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a small but important action taken as part of a larger effort. For example, "Beginning to save for retirement can seem daunting, but making a first step by opening a savings account can help you get started."
The purpose of this paper is to make a first step towards defining such a programming language for interaction nets.
In this paper we make a first step towards closing this gap and establish the challenges associated with demographic aging on the map of innovation scholars.
Every morning when I woke up it was painful to make a first step, but I really wanted to play because it's a very special tournament for me.
Through a structured analysis of this literature this paper develops a definition of critical materials that includes product design considerations, in order to make a first step in addressing the gap.
We also make a first step toward applying the conceptual tools within the sociology of evaluation to a disadvantaged setting, and more broadly, suggest that micro-processes of evaluation are important to the study of urban inequality.
"I didn't trust Saif, but I thought this was an opportunity to make a first step," says Giuma Atigha, a survivor of the massacre who later became Saif's human rights adviser.
"Maybe we've made a first step," said Boustani, 38, a rare Shiite Muslim in the mass of opposition demonstrators.
Don't call petty traveling when a player is on the periphery and makes a first step.
The research presented in this paper makes a first step to fill this research gap by reviewing and investigating the available CAR strategies and technologies and developing for the first time a consistent framework of indicators for assessing the sustainability performance of utilizing CAR for buildings.
Whereas the petrochemical industry has already stepped outside the box of traditional stoichiometric synthesis, the fine chemical industry has only made a first step in that direction.
Crowdroid [36] made a first step towards the use of dynamic analysis results for android malware detection by performing k means clustering based on system call invocation counts.
