Sentence examples for take minimal steps from inspiring English sources
An important last-minute amendment from Senator Saxby Chambliss, Republican of Georgia, will compel farmers receiving insurance subsidies to take minimal steps to reduce erosion and protect wetlands.
Yet we, as individuals or as a nation, still can't muster the will to take minimal steps to save lives, like providing adequate food, water and medicine, and browbeating Sudan into halting the killing.
That means consumers would have minimal steps to take beyond the initial setup to start accumulating the savings.
"If the O.A.S. does not take these minimal steps, the message is the O.A.S. will only react to confront bloody, unpopular coups".
"It is fair to say that Iran is prepared to take very minimal steps in regards to its nuclear program," said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, which has become the State Department's standard practice at the talks.
If these people won't take even minimal steps to protect themselves, why should government regulation do it for them?
The United States has taken only minimal steps on climate change, for instance, and global emissions have soared, not fallen, in the 20 years since the Earth Summit.
Despite this possibly explosive situation, the United States has taken only minimal steps to shore up the political system following the election.
But plaintiffs in the case against the government claim officials only took "minimal effort to consult with affected tribes" and that the steps that were taken "do not constitute meaningful, pre-decisional consultation".
Despite repeated protests from Kerry Sanders that he was not Robert Sanders, the escaped convict whom police were really after, no one at any stage of the criminal justice system took even the minimal steps needed to learn that the wrong man was in prison.
On industry inaction over phone-hacking rumours: Leveson talks of "minimal steps" being taken and "serious concerns" about hacking as an industry "in joke", writes Mark Sweney.
