True enough, so why had he blocked the first, halting stages towards electoral reform?
With the summer, however, came the first halting steps toward normalcy.
The House of Representatives has already passed legislation, with some Republican support, to take the first halting steps for pricing greenhouse gas emissions.
The dominant themes: being cool; resolving conflicts between fitting in and being unique; coping with family members; and taking the first halting steps of the mating ritual.
Whereas Sibelius begins with deceptively Romantic melodiousness before the song turns grim, bleakness shrouds the Stenhammar setting from the first halting chords in the piano.
The hearing, one he had avoided three times before but attended under renewed pressure from a judge, provided few answers about the violent period in Haiti that eventually ended with his downfall and the first, halting steps toward democracy.
The real issue is whether the institutions of American life have taken reasonable precautions to protect the public; for the most part, neither the government nor private organizations have taken more than the first halting steps.
Baby Steps: Despite the long-term time horizon for this paradigm shift, the first halting steps toward the hydrogen economy are already being taken in the form of hybrid fuel-cell vehicles that either burn hydrogen directly or generate electricity from hydrogen derived from methanol, gasoline or sodium borohydride.
Generations from now, long after the last Twitter follower has unfriended the last Facebook user, this decade will be remembered and felt for its impact on Nature: the species that were saved and those that were lost; the heating of the planet; the forests cut down and those that continue to provide oxygen to our children's children, and the first halting steps toward a clean energy future.
In these cases one may initially opt for a direct method; or, as a viable alternative in most laboratories, one could run both direct and 2-stage tools in parallel, halting the computations when the first halts.
