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Those moves have brought criticism from bond analysts who have been urging the state to take substantive steps to cut spending.

Mr. Zhou reportedly told Mr. Kim that China would support his son's succession but North Korea would have to take substantive steps to open up its economy, including rejoining diplomatic efforts, to relieve the external economic pressures on it.

The pressure on Israel from Obama, and on Obama from the Arab countries, to end perceived double standards and take substantive steps to advance counter-proliferation goals is likely to increase.

He will assure us that the NRA will take substantive steps to ensure that something like this never happens again -- to his kids or your kids.

He also told the newspaper the diocese had taken substantive steps to address abuse, including hiring a victims' advocate and a deacon with corrections experience to supervise priests removed from ministry.

Still, because the H1N1 pandemic strain, or swine flu, has generally not been more virulent than ordinary seasonal flu, airports, hotels and airlines are trying to find a balance between showing that they are taking substantive steps and not acting so aggressively that they set off a panic among travelers.

And for all their bumbling collectively, some politicians have taken substantive steps to improve the legal framework and policing system in the nation for victims.

Previously, in August 2013, the FCC took substantive steps by capping the costs on all collect interstate prison collect calls at 25 cents per minute, which it says has reduced call costs by up to 40percentt.

Yet, China can still take substantive measures to reverse the adversarial dynamics.

But the White House has yet to comment on the visit, and Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday that North Korea has failed to take any substantive steps to give up its nuclear weapons.

We are now six months past the election, and although the president has taken some substantive steps toward advancing equality, failing to protect LGBT employees in the workplace has become a glaring, festering omission.