The Economist has described the effort as "a new art" for Ukraine of which "the learning curve is steep".
The downside of such a unique situation and character is, of course, the Riviera price tag, often as steep as the Lattari mountains themselves.
And it's just a short (but steep) walk from Flamands beach, which has magnificent waves that roll in off the reefs, clapping and hissing, and then racing up the sand in protruding fingers of surf.
And even as public support for the death penalty is in welcome steep decline, back in 2011 the DUP called for a parliamentary debate to reinstate it.
Parishioner Gemma Cort, 44, said local children were helping drivers by pushing cars up the steep A61 in Sheffield when they spotted the coach and a decision was taken to open the church.
But it also follows a steep nearly 30% decline in overall funding to the Highways Agency since then: from £4.1bn in 2009-10 to £2.9bn in 2012-13.
Here's our own cycling doyen Will Fotheringham with his preview of today's stage: The Tour won't be won in Steel City but one of the favourites could lose it here, as the series of short steep climbs and some abrupt, narrow and very technical descents – equally difficult, particularly if the roads are wet – will make for a demanding finale, where a crash or a puncture could be very costly.
The route between Klemensker and Rø takes you down a narrow fissure valley between steep cliffs.
The ground, and it is a ground not a stadium, rises up straight – square, concrete, steep, 14,700 fans within touching distance of the pitch.
In protest against Hamburger SV's steep prices for away standing tickets, they vacated their block after 10 minutes to follow the game outside the ground, next to two portable buildings that had been helpfully provided by the Imtech Arena.
Sturgeon reiterated that "austerity is pushing people into poverty" – a fact backed up by the steep rise in the number of people using food banks in the last five years, and repeated by Miliband, who reminded us that wages do not keep pace with rising living costs.
