Sentence examples for valuable first steps from inspiring English sources

Still, these are valuable first steps to take in a city that has left its young people to fend for themselves while local women operate nearby machines, churning out BlackBerry phones and car parts destined for foreign markets.

More research and data, the development of model schemes and benchmarks, identifying good practices, and setting up international exchange and training opportunities would be valuable first steps.

There are no easy answers, although several valuable first steps, to solve this problem.

The National Criminal Justice Commission Act would be a valuable first step toward reducing crime as well as punishment.

Such campaigns are a valuable first step in challenging the attitudes seen so often on our screens.

With a bit of imagination and planning you can organise a gap year that is both memorable AND a valuable first step on the career ladder.

Finding an individual you trust and admire as a mentor could be a valuable first step and you'd be surprised at how many entrepreneurs are willing to offer their time.

Senior researcher Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva said the workforce figures were a "valuable first step" but that the long-term implications of lifting the restrictions were still not known.

Phil Budahn, a spokesperson for the American Legion, agrees: "There has been tremendous anxiety among Gulf War vets" about birth defects, he says, calling the study a "valuable first step toward allaying some of those fears".

"Even though this is a very well-maintained preserve," Nason says, "the only reason the figs have survived is that [Panamanians] haven't deforested the area around it". Indeed, adds Nickolas Waser, a biologist at the University of California, Riverside, "this kind of result is a valuable first step in determining... how tropical forest reserves might be designed that would maintain biodiversity".

Given that the DLRA represents a watershed in drug policy in the state, and potentially in the nation, and that no studies have sought to understand its implementation from the provider perspective, a valuable first step is to discover the relevant categories of interest, exactly what we attempt to do here.