Sentence examples for will be a first step from inspiring English sources

Longer term, she said, she hopes the child development certificate, which entails three semesters of study, will be a first step toward a bachelor's degree.

They also agreed to create a permanent support fund for the euro after 2013 — something they hope will be a first step to calming the markets.

"It will be a first step toward freeing scholarship from the stranglehold of commercial publishers by making it freely available on our own university repository".

"I think a lot of people are afraid that this will be a first step, and there will be other steps where potentially other religious liberties could be at play".

Hours later, the prime minister indicated that he may soon make a decision on restarting the Oi nuclear plant in western Japan, which he hopes will be a first step toward turning on Japan's other idled plants.

"The resolution of that issue will be a first step, a necessary first step toward removing the tensions and doubts and misgivings that the two sides have had about each other for the last 30-some years," he said.

But Hester Le Roux, who is a director of Gold Fields Minerals Services, a precious metals research firm in London, says that even if there is a devaluation, it will "merely be a first step, and that other steps will need to be taken".

Reaching accord among the diplomats on a Strategic Partnership Declaration will only be a first step.

If the United States is going to have meaningful reform of its out-of-control financial system, new rules will only be a first step.

All this seems like a strong step in the right direction, although even if entirely successful the progress made will only be a first step forward toward mitigation of existing conditions, not by any means a final solution.

"We hope that this will be a positive first step to the transfer of the remaining detainees".