Sentences with phrase «as a first step toward»

The state's move is seen as the first step toward joining the pact.

The leaders also welcomed a historic summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae - in as a first step toward reducing tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

Outbound sales inquiries: Our sales reps and appointment setters have the sales - specific professionalism to treat every call as the first step toward a potential sales relationship.

As a first step toward approaching social impact, the paper includes a few social impact indicators on a «nice to have» basis.

You can easily explore the options today as a first step toward determining if this is the right move for you to take.

Instead, the meeting is viewed as the first step toward a more integrated Eurozone and a single banking supervisor.

«A key component of this tariff is that Staff doesn't have all the information and analysis they would need to calculate these values in a precise way, so they are using proxies instead as a first step toward more granular compensation,» notes a statement by Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA).

As a first step toward simplifying the concept of nature, Whitehead introduces concept II.

The red - hot Turkey issue The argument has raged for 45 years over whether Turkey should become part of Europe, ever since it signed an Association Agreement in 1963 as a first step toward membership.

The pressure has come not just from libertarians, but also from some pro-life supporters who seek limitations on abortion as first steps toward its elimination.

But just as easily as this could demonstrate that Don has given up on the possibility of all redemption, it could be read as a first step toward his own: stepping aside so that another can remake himself after recognizing that his own path to change lies elsewhere.

«We are excited to work with PicoBrew as our first step toward entering this fast growing segment of the beer industry.

If you've introduced rice cereal to your baby's diet as a first step toward solid foods, the cereal could be the culprit — it's low in fiber.

At the January 12th membership meeting the Village Independent Democrats endorsed a letter to Speaker Christine Quinn applauding her support of the Fair Wage For New Yorkers Act as a first step toward ensuring a living wage, but calling on her to move quickly to expand the act to cover the substantial number of minimum wage workers who remain unprotected and without enough of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our city.

Rockland's human rights commissioner and county executive billed the gathering as a first step toward unity, but not all groups had representatives.

Obamacare could only have succeeded if it was implemented as the first step toward major reforms that would have taken decades to implement, requiring a large consensus in society.

Tenney told X101 she hopes the President can get the economy growing as a first step toward cutting spending.

But this meeting also is intended as a first step toward building stronger long - term partnerships between Western and Arab science, and that elevates its significance.

It is widely recognized as the first step toward ambitious national standards in science for all students and a major influence on current efforts to reform science education in the U.S., including the National Research Council's A Framework for K - 12 Science Education (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by Achieve in 2013.

The students described BacillaFilla as the first step toward «self - healing concrete,» and their efforts are just one among many to create biological substances that could heal ship hulls, metal girders and more.

Their claim is that the appearance of new traits in a population, generally regarded as a first step toward the evolution of new species, can occur by means other than the accumulation of micromutations (i.e., small - scale or highly localized mutations), the classic mechanism by which new traits, and eventually new species, are thought to appear.

Greens heralded the move as a first step toward bringing the sector in line with the world's quest for a safe climate.

The ISS is no different, although it was built with a vision by some that we would have this station as the first step toward collaborative deep - space exploration.

The mature transgenic animals were bred usually with nontransgenic goats as a first step toward producing a herd.

Girls in Ecuador's Conambo tribe mold clay balls provided by their mothers into various shapes as a first step toward becoming potters.

«We hope that this research on dental calculus from the Norris Farms site acts as the first step toward future paleogenomic investigations of prehistoric North American remains in a respectful and non-destructive way that interests and benefits both descendent communities and anthropologists,» said Andrew Ozga, OU doctoral graduate, and currently postdoctoral candidate at Arizona State University.

He noted that the President's proposed 2017 budget calls for a 20 % increase for clean energy R&D, as a first step toward doubling those investments over five years, in keeping with an international climate - change agreement reached in Paris last December.

Actually implementing this tuning has the potential for significant impact, and an exciting next step based on this research would be to implement the proposed tuning as a first step toward controllable friction in scientific and engineering applications.»

If you chose your degree as the first step toward a particular career but now aren?t sure about pursuing it, don?t worry.

«As a first step toward increasing adherence to guidelines, it may be necessary to create opportunities and messaging strategies that help physicians recognize the experiences that help shape their recommendations,» says Pollack.

The ongoing Zika virus outbreak in Latin America and the Caribbean has created an urgent need for identifying small animal models as a first step toward developing vaccines and treatments to fight the infection.

China is a place where science is appreciated, where scientific advance is seen as a first step toward a better life.»

As a first step toward finding out, he subjected sleeping rats to bouts of hypoxia, or partial oxygen deprivation, that mimicked apnea episodes.

He suggests that as a first step toward avoiding the induced bias, election officials might try to pick «more innocuous multipurpose rooms» in the polling place to reduce, for example, the religious stimuli in a church setting.

As a first step toward identifying bacteria that support athletic performance, the researchers collected fecal samples on a daily basis from 20 athletes training for the 2015 Boston marathon, one week before and one week after the race.

As a first step toward such a trial, she conducted the TABS study, which showed that it was feasible to coach adults aged 60 and older to spend less time sitting: an average of 27 minutes less per day.

We're very excited to see construction at Sanford Lab begin as the first step toward building the giant detector.»

As a first step toward assessing this new model, Yoshizawa and others have treated cave fish with several psychiatric drugs.

At the state level, Wisconsin legislator Terese Berceau (D - Madison) has asked her state's departments of Natural Resources, Health and Family Services, and Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection to work with her to create a registry of businesses that make nanoparticles as a first step toward tracking their use and potential health effects.

This knowledge opens up possibilities about treatment ideas that can be tested in animal models as a first step toward human trials.

Other experts are hailing the finding as the first step toward a cure or gene therapy for LCA.

In this meditation, take a few moments to focus the mind on loving - kindness as a first step toward the mental transformation yoga can offer.

The progressive, abolitionist Republicans, guided by Thaddeus Stevens (a scene - stealing Tommy Lee Jones), see it as the first step toward true equality for an entire race.

The plan was praised by educators as the first step toward creation of a national system allowing transfers of pension benefits.

He sees this as a first step toward developing stronger national standards that would be comparable to those of our overseas competitors and better than all previously existing state standards.

These people sought to understand the policies and positions of their adversaries by not reacting with anger and hatred, but by responding with empathic listening, non-judgment, and diplomacy as a first step toward clarity and understanding.

Though this can be viewed as a first step toward new models of learning, the peril lies in complacency.

Many Democrats see portability as the first step toward federal vouchers for private schools and argue that it would siphon dollars from schools with high poverty and profound needs to those in more affluent neighborhoods.

The slim budget summary released Thursday frames the new spending as the first step toward meeting Trump's campaign pledge to invest $ 20 billion in school - choice initiatives.

«We encourage educators, families, and the public to use the included suggestions as first steps toward improving their community's approach to whole child education.»