Sentence examples for one's steps from inspiring English sources

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At moments like these it is best to take a deep breath, compose oneself and calmly retrace one's steps over the past few hours.

Despite clocking up more than 1,000 flights during his time as president, Barack Obama still lopes up Air Force One's steps with his trademark bounce, exchanging banter in the back of the plane with a handful of accompanying journalists and working the ropeline of well-wishers with the casual charm that helped first get him elected.

About a year ago, I read in DeGregorio's Complete Book of U. S. Presidents that Grant, "believed it bad luck to retrace one's steps.

Virgil wrote in The Aeneid, "it is easy to go down into Hell; night and day the fates of dark death stand wide; but to climb back up again, to retrace one's steps to the open air, there lies the problem, the difficult task".

Children learn to use operations that are flexible and fully reversible in thought; the ability to plan a series of moves in a game of checkers and then mentally retrace one's steps to the beginning of that sequence is one such example of an operation.

For, in many cases, one's steps along a disadvantageous course seem voluntary, motivated by the prospect of some benefit, and performed in light of a correct understanding of the consequences of each step taken.

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But this openness made him vulnerable in certain ways, and he himself knew one had to watch one's step.

Cundy said: "No-one's stepped forward to put any events on because the fees are too expensive, and there doesn't seem anyone willing to organise it.

"Everything is an experiment to me, and the challenge here was symmetry," he says as Patrick Corbin and Maureen Mansfield deftly mirror one another's steps.

For most of history, counting one's daily steps or tracking one's heart rate would have seemed pointless and insane.

No one's really stepping their foot down".

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