Sentences with phrase «as the first step in»

Among other things it recommended «the separation of the electricity and gas segments of the State Energy Commission (SECWA) as the first step in the process of change.

What they were specific about was that they'd chosen rebranding as the first step in revitalizing a franchise that has been a stranger to the playoffs for five straight seasons.

Though I was still casing my next mark, carefully walking around areas of interest or sneaking around on rooftops, I used Senu as my first step in planning.

BIS, however, cautions that these indicators should not be treated as a formal stress test, but as a first step in a broader analysis.

Lululemon has been able to sell its yoga pants for $ 100 because customers see their purchase as the first step in a journey toward health and wellness.

So Mr. Négri combed through public documents that employers file with the Department of Labor as a first step in an H - 1B application.

They advocate a content strategy as the first step in any marketing campaign.

Put together an investment strategy as a first step in your long — term financial and debt — repayment outlook.

Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy has contacted the United States, Australia and New Zealand as a first step in organizing a special APEC meeting on East Timor.

Additionally, in the fourth quarter of 2009, based on recommendations from our CEO to the Compensation Committee, the Compensation Committee reviewed certain officers» overall contribution and recommended additional equity option grants as a first step in modifying Executive Officer compensation — especially those with longer tenures with us — consistent with the goals above.

As a first step in identifying U.S. companies with effective corporate diversity programs, Knowledge@Wharton compared and contrasted some of the top magazine lists that annually recognize successful companies in this area, including Fortune, Black Enterprise and Hispanic Magazine, then identified companies that appeared on all lists and finally, turned to diversity experts to help choose the standouts.

A direct - drive exploding - pusher implosion as the first step in development of a monoenergetic charged - particle backlighting platform at the National Ignition Facility

All students are encouraged to submit a Free Application for Federal Student Aid as the first step in the process.

In Greenberg we find a theologian who calls on Jews to validate the realities of statehood and power» an almost Hobbesian affirmation of what survival requires in a world where Auschwitz is possible» and who also calls Jews and Christians to revise radically their theologies as the first step in the project of perfecting and redeeming the world as partners in covenantal pluralism.

As we listen to the witness of the Bible, we may be inclined to think, at first, that this is no more than the voice of the human Israel which points us away from the gods of idolatry as the first step in man's self - emancipation.

This requires that we put ourselves at a distance as a first step in overcoming the alienated distance of objectivism.

Novak also sees the admission of natural law concepts as the first step in Judaism's long effort to make peace with modernity by abandoning the inner essence of its identity, a Faustian bargain culminating in the Holocaust.

As the first step in evangelisation, we must try to keep this search alive... I think that the Church should open today a sort of «court of the gentiles»... to dialogue with those for whom religion is something foreign, to whom God is unknown, and who nonetheless would not like simply to remain without God, but at least to approach him as the Unknown.»

It is so important to instill belief as a first step in the placebo process, that doubters must be threatened with eternal torture if they resist belief.

Sisters Food Group, one of the UK's largest food manufacturers, has started up a potato - powered energy plant as a first step in a new sustainability plan which aims to generate 35,000 tonnes of carbon savings a year and slash the group's carbon footprint by 20 % by 2018.

Albeit it may not have been in a coaching position but I thought the Frenchman was offered the chance to return to Arsenal, only for him to choose Manchester City as the first step in his post professional footballing career.

Art for Babies / Faces for Babies 12 black - and white images created by well - known contemporary artists, and selected to tie in with research findings that suggest focusing on high - contrast images as the first step in developing visually and figuring out images and eventually words as well.

We ask that all prospective parents attend one of our discovery events or schedule a tour as a first step in your decision - making process.

Read our Cloth Diapering Definitions and Terms as your first step in how to choose a cloth diaper system that is right for your baby, toddler, caregivers, and family.

«delayed cord clamping actually can be viewed as the first step in resusitation as the placenta is still fully functional in gas exchange».

Such waivers would be for only one year but the amendment, if passed, is widely seen as a first step in chipping away permanently at the nutritional advances of the 2010 Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA).

Designed to educate «grandmothers - to - be» on up - to - date maternity care, birth practices and infant parenting, it is also designed as the first step in building bridges of love, understanding and communication between expectant mothers and the grandmother - to - be.

As a first step in answering the question, consider the assumptions implicit in it and other potential explanations.

This is only possible by first confronting the EU's links to the colonial past of its member - states as a first step in a process in which the EU starts to open up to the perspectives and voices of its international partners.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D - Bronx) put out a call for résumés Wednesday as a first step in the process to appoint a new top prosecutor.

39.22 percent of the 51 bills he had active wen to Labor as their first step in their legislative progress, much higher than his house's average of 2.73 percent.

After Labour had largely remained quiet about the issue in the first two years of the Coalition government, Miliband touted his speech as the first step in a new conversation, and offered extensive apologies about Labour's past policies on immigration in a bid to begin to rehabilitate Labour's public image in this policy area.

Carroll views early voting as a first step in modernizing our voting systems, but feels that there is so much more to do, «from allowing same day registration, no fault absentee voting, allowing for party enrollment changes to take place 10 days before an election and more.»

Describing the president's immigration plan as «extremely generous» but a take - it - or - leave - it proposal, White House officials said they hoped it would be embraced by conservatives and centrists in Congress as the first step in an even broader effort to fix the nation's immigration system.

Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente Jr. today urged local business owners who suffered damages in two severe storms of 2011 to contact the Oneida County Department of Planning as a first step in a process that could result in funding to address damages caused by Hurricane Irene and / or Tropical Storm Lee.

Why not see the referendum as the first step in a new endorsement of popular politics?

Not only have Republicans repeatedly cited gubernatorial races as the first step in their rebuilding process nationally but the governors elected over the next two years will play a major role in the decennial redistricting process that will help determine control of Congress for the foreseeable future.

While some have suggested that the proposal's defeat in the polls was the last nail in the coffin of electoral reform, others have interpreted it as the first step in a longer journey.

We have convened this meeting as a first step in identifying how we can fight this public health crisis.»

It can also be used as the first step in the process of reproductive cloning.

This is a great cleanser to use as the first step in your morning skincare routine.

As a first step in checking the service's capabilities, he and his colleagues ran a study where the preliminary results showed the app could tell the difference between the diagnostic abilities of medical residents and fully trained physicians.

Kristoffer NT Månsson sees the study as a first step in a larger project.

As a first step in the current study, the researchers genotyped 977 HD patients and then ran a second scan of samples from another 974 patients.

On this spring day on Maryland's eastern shore, they were on a field trip to Assateague Island, measuring the slope of the beach as the first step in a lesson on sea - level rise.

As a first step in this experiment, the researchers implanted as many as 96 electrodes into multiple regions of the cortex in the monkeys.

We're hoping this survey can act as a first step in the conversation.

NEPAD calls for the creation of an enabling environment for social peace and intra-Africa stability as a first step in having a stake in world peace and prosperity.

Last year, as a first step in defining a «normal» lab mouse microbiome, they analyzed feces from mice from two major vendors.

Because of this threat, CMS requested WCS to produce a Guidelines on Linear Infrastructure as a first step in the Initiative to provide ways that governments and industry can avoid development actions that may lead to population declines.