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The Reform Government Surveillance coalition also recommitted to reforms beyond the USA Freedom Act, describing it only as a step in the right direction.
But Gibraltarians were outraged, and Spain was interested in the plan only as a step towards recovering the full sovereignty which was ceded in the Treaty of Utretcht in 1713.
Interest should climb further when the FSC introduces a watered-down form of certification designed to make life easier for timber companies in the developing world, albeit only as a step towards a full-strength version.
For the producer countries, going easy on drug-users while insisting that the product remain illegal is the worst of all worlds.Stir it upThat is why decriminalisation makes sense only as a step towards legalisation.
But Mr. Lawson and his supporters saw the European monetary system not only as a step toward European integration but also as a safeguard against the kind of wide swings in the pound's value that had so disrupted Britain's economic health in the past.
However, NMR did not seem to consider Trump's win a victory for the likeminded – only as a step in the right direction towards their ultimate goal of a white supremacy.
Mr Chunang says it would see autonomy only as a stepping-stone to independence, and that the TYC's commitment to non-violence might weaken when the Dalai Lama dies.
In contrast, Upanishadic thinkers did not seek to build an ideal society, and regarded Earthly existence only as a "stepping-stone to something higher"; their focus was to attain moksha or deliverance from the endless cycle of birth and death.
Research for career advancement without concern for community impacts is termed "stepping-stone research" by Akwesasne partners, because it uses the community only as a stepping-stone for career advancement.
The department offers M.A. and Ph.D. degrees, although the M.A. is only granted as a step toward fulfilling requirements for the Ph.D. The department does not admit students who wish to work only toward the M.A. degree.
Most Jewish Israelis want the occupation to end and agree to a Palestinian state, but they are not willing to move ahead as long as they have reason to think that a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders is only meant as a step on the way to erasing Israel altogether.
