Sentence examples for the difficult but necessary step from inspiring English sources

Phoebe Goodman, executive director of the Nassau Citizens Budget Committee, said many of the current problems were caused by county politicians who had been reluctant to take the difficult but necessary step of reassessing property, cutting down on costly tax rebates, because they feared "that they wouldn't be loved anymore and might lose office".

All told, we will take the difficult but necessary step of reducing our work force by 7,000 — including some 1,500 salaried and management staff by year end, and 5,500 front-line employees by the end of next year.

How many will take the difficult but necessary steps to strengthen the teaching profession?

"We have taken this difficult but necessary step to enable A&P to fully implement our comprehensive financial and operational restructuring," Sam Martin, the company's chief executive, said in a statement.

In a press release, SUNY described the closing as a "difficult but necessary step" taken to "stabilize the finances" of its Downstate Medical Center.

And he said he sold the mortgage assets, a difficult but necessary step, because he did not know if Merrill would have a similar opportunity again.

Members of the caucuses who did support the bill agreed with the leadership that it was a difficult but necessary step at a time of predictions that the economy might crumble without it.

"To continue to move forward, we now need to take the difficult but necessary restructuring steps that will continue to maximize profitability across the company," Alcoa's chief executive, Alain J. P. Belda, said.

"Closing these two subway tubes is a difficult but necessary step to restore them to the condition they were in before Sandy struck," Fernando Ferrer, the authority's acting chairman, said in a statement.

"The economy and the secular changes in our industry are causing everyone to rigorously manage costs, and unfortunately, this is a difficult but necessary step," said Michael Golden, vice chairman of the company and a board member of the foundation.

The generation of meteorological surfaces from point-source data is a difficult but necessary step required for modeling ecological and hydrological processes across landscapes.