Sentence examples for serious steps in from inspiring English sources

The previous government made some serious steps in this direction, just to mention a very efficient "Maluch" (Little kid) program.

She took some serious steps in this episode---selling her car, steeling against Bill's disapproval of her business plan---and they resulted in a potentially successful career that will be hers and hers alone.

By the end of his stay in Paris, he likely became a supporter of reforms in France and Poland, and begun taking his first serious steps in political activism, through the involvement in the Quattuowirat, a group of magnates planning a (never realized) confederacy.

"With the short-range missile tests, North Korea is reminding the United States and South Korea that it can escalate tensions again and follow up with more serious steps if things do not go in the direction it wants," said Kim Yong-hyun, a North Korea analyst at Dongguk University in Seoul.

Franz Fischler's new proposals for common agricultural policy (CAP) reform are a serious step in the right direction.

"Invoking of an international arbitration is a serious step in the process of dispute resolution," Mr. Kanabar said.

Still, the White House spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said North Korea's threat to abandon multiparty talks and reactivate its Yongbyon nuclear reactor represented a "serious step in the wrong direction".

But today's announcement is a serious step in the right direction for robust, independent and interdisciplinary scientific advice at the heart of European decision making.

"A subpoena to the White House is a serious step in a Congressional investigation," she said, "and it is a step that should be taken only after alternative avenues have been exhausted.

P EOPLE have been predicting the end of the suit for as long as I've been in the fashion business," said Alan Flusser, the author of "Dressing the Man: Mastering The Art of Permanent Fashion" and a believer in the Wildean aphorism that "a well-tied tie is the first serious step in life".

But George Bush's US farm bill (pumping $180bn of new subsidies into US agriculture over the next 10 years) is an even more serious step in the wrong direction - and yet another example of the kind of redneck unilateralism that is persuading more and more people of the status of the US as the number one rogue state.