Sentence examples for represented the first step from inspiring English sources

He said the deal also represented the first step in a restructuring that could culminate in an initial public stock offering, the first for a Brazilian media group.

While the airplane was unable to take off from the water, it represented the first step toward the design of the famous Curtiss Model E flying boat.

The decision represented the first step in offering Libya encouragement and reward following the announcement by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's government Dec. 19 that it was abandoning longstanding efforts to acquire nuclear, chemical and other unconventional weapons.

When I sat down with one of them, he told me that he supported the revolution because he believed that it represented the first step toward the institution of Sharia nationwide.

On the basis of his observations of the shape of the jaw and of the morphology of the teeth which he thought were transitional between those of apes and humans Simons advanced the theory that Ramapithecus represented the first step in the evolutionary divergence of humans from the common hominoid stock that produced modern apes and humans.

Engine stand-alone tests represented the first step of this analysis.

In a sense, it represents the first step toward transparency for the reticent Journal.

It represents the first step on a long road back to international respectability.

This will represent the first step in Iceland's attempts to regain credibility in international markets.

If the report stands, it will represent the first step toward doing so: finding out the truth.

For the Wizards, the trade represents the first step toward rebuilding an expensive, underachieving and troubled team.