Here's another slice: There has been no labor lawyer on the Supreme Court since Justice Arthur Goldberg accepted President Johnson's urging to step down from the Court to be UN Ambassador.
But many moderate Alabamians had been urging lawmakers to step back from their fixation on anti-immigrant schemes, which they see as causing the state deep humiliation and economic and moral damage.
Labour's deputy leader, Tom Watson, is urging colleagues to step back from the brink in challenging Jeremy Corbyn, warning that a leadership election in which the incumbent stands again could cause untold damage to the party.
Annie Leonard, executive director of Greenpeace USA, wrote to the State Department on Wednesday, urging Tillerson to step away from any decisions regarding Keystone because his former employer, Exxon Mobil, "would directly and predictably benefit from the approval" of the project.
Israel and Iran have been urged to step back from the brink after their most serious direct confrontation, with Israeli missiles being fired over war-torn Syria in a "wide-scale" retaliatory attack many fear could drag the foes into a spiralling war.
No, it's the food recommendations of the last month from Closer magazine, which urge us to step away from the carbs and into a happy bubble of seaweed-eating.
(Report, 3 November, theguardian.com) Annie Wharton Kelso, Scotland Odd to think that the Earth started with a big bang but may end with a Trump (As polling day looms, Clinton urges America to step back from the brink, 3 November).
She's a stunner, brilliant (if you haven't read any of her books, I urge you to step away from the computer and begin now), and completely at ease at events like these: warm, self-assured, disarming.
Nobody has bet more on the outcome than Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who has urged Catalans to step back from what he sees as an illegal, reckless insistence on independence.
State Treasurer John Chiang urged Dababneh to step down from his Assembly seat, citing the accounts of two women who spoke out publicly against the legislator on Monday.
Obama urged Russia and Turkey to "step back" from the brink of an intensifying conflict and keep in mind their common goal of containing the militants who have waged horrific acts of terrorism on both.
