But that is no excuse for making it steadily easier for people to buy, carry and use weapons, or for our political leaders' continuing refusal to take obvious steps like banning the unrestricted sale of weapons at gun shows, or sales of slightly modified military assault weapons, or unregulated Internet sales of ammunition and ammunition drums that can hold 150 high-damage rounds.
Having raised the education bar higher and higher -- making it steadily tougher for students to move through school -- the states now face the burden of insuring that every child has modern textbooks, a competent teacher and a clean, safe place to sit.
Pass hooks/ nails through the plastic grommets so that they will support the weight of the banner and make it hang steadily.
When an obese neighbor calls him her hero, he retorts, "You mean the sandwich, don't you?" It's an unkind, politically incorrect joke and works only if the person making it is steadily misanthropic; here, it seems out of character coming from easygoing Steve.
Under Mr. Alvarado, reading and math scores in District 2 rose steadily to make it New York City's second-ranked district.
Hamas is busy making a two-state solution inconceivable, while the settlers have steadily worked to make it impossible.
Eating smaller portions of food more frequently (and listening to your body to determine when you're actually hungry) makes it easier to steadily fuel ourselves through the recovery process.
In recent years, he took a terrible Atlanta team and, as its coach, steadily made it more competitive.
Despite that effort, Microsoft's share of the online search audience has declined steadily, making it harder to persuade advertisers to use the system.
Then the argument could be made (and Trump's surrogates are busy making it) that Kelly is steadily purging the most ineffectual and incendiary elements from the White House, and that things are finally getting on track.
