Sentence examples for serious first step from inspiring English sources

If lawmakers could pass this legislation in their coming lame-duck session, they would take a serious first step toward meeting the 2020 goal.

Until the city significantly reduces traffic (congestion pricing would be a good first step) and makes serious efforts to calm traffic and curb aggressive driving, New York will be a good but not a great city for walking.

These are good first steps".

Joe Romm wrote for ThinkProgress, "After too much silence and avoidance of climate science, we can hope that this interview is the first step of serious Presidential engagement with the public on the serious challenges and opportunities of climate chaos mitigation".

A powerful German labor union, IG Metall, broke off wage talks in what could be the first step to serious strikes -- rare in Germany.

"Reform of energy subsidies is a key policy priority for Egypt but this is really only the first step towards serious reform and there is still much to be done".

Thus, the first step in serious game design is to establish an understanding of the particular learning domain, usually through consultation with domain experts.

A serious self assessment is the first step to discovering what you value in a work environment.

"When girls and young women stray from the rightful path... this kind of non-serious activity can become the first step towards our destruction," Grand Mufti Bashiruddin Ahmad said in a statement.

"When girls and young women stray from the rightful path... this kind of non-serious activity can become the first step towards our destruction," Grand Mufti Bashiruddin Ahmad said in a statement, quoted by AFP news agency.

He is the first serious contender to take this traditional first step.