Sentence examples for take difficult steps from inspiring English sources

Smaller banks might be hesitant to take difficult steps to strengthen themselves financially if they thought they would be nationalized anyway.

He added: "Israel must take difficult steps as well, and as a friend of Israel, the United States must speak with unity on their importance.

In a speech on Friday, Mr. Gates — who is gaining considerable clout in education circles — plans to urge the 50 state superintendents of education to take difficult steps to restructure the nation's public education budgets, which have come under severe pressure in the economic downturn.

Mr. Obama's backers say that he is simply acknowledging reality and developing a clear-eyed strategy for what the United States can and cannot do and that he ultimately may prove right in diagnosing Europe's economic problems and its need to take difficult steps to fix them.

Mr. Sharon's plans lend credence to Palestinian charges that Israel wants to stall movement on the road map until the 2004 United States presidential campaign, hoping that domestic American political considerations will then preclude further pressure from Washington to take difficult steps for peace.

Outgoing Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, who has admitted defeat, defended his record saying he had been obliged "to take difficult steps" to make his country secure.

Mount Sinai has taken difficult steps to improve its finances, and officials there say those measures have begun to pay off.

And they have praised the Samaras government's renewed commitment to taking difficult steps to revamp the economy despite concern that Greece could be a ward of its euro zone partners for years to come.

Before the 1976 agreement, the Labor government of Prime Minister James Callaghan had already taken difficult steps to curb public wages and bring down the deficit, which at 5percentt of G.D.P. was about half of what Britain's current gap is.

The new unrest alarmed investors and threatened to polarize Greek society -- or to galvanize it to take difficult but needed steps.

The government must take difficult and unpopular steps that it has avoided, they say, including forcing Japan's banks rapidly to write off the estimated $500 billion in nonperforming loans they hold and push deadbeat debtors into restructuring or bankruptcy.