Sentence examples for terrible step from inspiring English sources

It is a terrible step to have to take.

But Camp David was a terrible step in the wrong direction, in my view.

Or, the Americans yearning for bigger homes could help to keep the slowdown from going that extra, terrible step.

He described the new education policy of returning academies to the control of local authorities as a "retrograde" and "terrible step".

"It was a difficult decision and a terrible step backwards, but we eventually decided we had no choice but for me to move back into the family home".

The giant's hardware, however, is far in excess of anything the US military can rustle up - and the nuclear button looks like the next terrible step.

Of course they're susceptible to taking the terrible, final step.

"I walk up those terrible 10 steps to prove I'm a man".

Of course there might have been some terrible mis-steps: Patrick Leigh Fermor, author of A Time of Gifts and its successors, the glorious story of his penniless one-man hike from London to Constantinople, would surely nowadays have a camera crew with him for his journey.

Oh, if we could only go back two centuries more!" It was as if, to take the terrible dialectic one step further, the dream of total peace that had produced the fact of total war threw the bleeding and bewildered masses back on the only fixed point left: an absolutist religiosity, made more fanatic by persecution.

And we occasionally exact a terrible penalty for stepping outside those rigid parameters.