Sentences with phrase «as the first step on»

It was a weekend I will remember and cherish forever as the first step on a journey that I hope will last a lifetime.

«We have to use this leadership campaign as the first step on the road back to power because that is where we should be as a political party,» he said to loud applause.

«This summer opens the door for youth to learn what work is all about, to learn some lessons about what employers will want, to learn what types of skills youth will need to achieve success, and to use this summer as a first step on the ladder of success.

Some might see a position like his as the first step on a career ladder.

«I've taken the view that they're implementing an emissions - monitoring system, not a carbon market — and I'm okay with that as a first step on the road.»

But as the first step on that road, we have to bridge the gap between college enrollment aspiration and attainment.

Signing an agent has traditionally been viewed as the first step on a road toward a publishing career with traditional publishers.

We secured the English jurisdiction for the wife, which functioned as the first step on the road to her being awarded # 64.5 million (a significantly better result than she would have secured had the divorce proceeded in Malaysia).

Think of our graduate programme as the first step on an incredible journey.

Empathi is here to help you attain the emotionally transformational experiences you need, and serves as the first step on your journey to a better relationship.

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«As a first step we're taking advantage of our existing identity and payment technologies to help people subscribe on a publication's website with a single click, and then seamlessly access that content anywhere — whether it's on that publisher site or mobile app, or on Google Newsstand, Google Search or Google News,» Gingras said.

Kushner's first step, toward the end of 2012, was to bring on two friends as co-founders.

Corporate Culture / Team Culture: Removing the Hidden Barriers to Team Success Not so much a step - by - step guide to making teams work as it is a first step, this book (from AMACOM, 800-538-4761, 1997, $ 22.95) focuses on whether a company has the culture to support teams.

And the giant that makes the platform he's building on, Apple, for example, is running large - scale medical studies using its software, and is said to be looking to handle clinical data as the first step to a real attempt to break into the medical market.

And it may represent the first step on the road to using pig organs as viable options for humans.

Noah, who takes over for former host Jon Stewart after previously appearing on the show as a correspondent, will be the program's first new host since Stewart took over the role in 1999 (though, John Oliver briefly stepped into the role two years ago during a Stewart hiatus before getting his own show on HBO (TWX)-RRB-.

The company is selling a thing (the kit) by saying it can provide «health reports on 254 diseases and conditions,» including categories such as «carrier status,» «health risks,» and «drug response,» and specifically as a «first step in prevention» that enables users to «take steps toward mitigating serious diseases» such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, and breast cancer...» Most of the uses «listed on your website, a list that has grown over time,» the FDA writes, «are medical device uses [for the] Personal Genome Service.»

NEW YORK / SAN FRANCISCO, April 5 - Janet Yellen cashed in with her first paid visit to Wall Street since stepping down as Federal Reserve chair, discussing rate hikes and U.S. President Donald Trump at events on Monday that included a dinner for 40 at a CEO's Manhattan penthouse.

Fast - forward 20 years and I found myself stepping back into that very same classroom addressing her new class of terrified fifth graders as a confident woman sharing the immense gratitude I had for this woman and her unwitting stamp on my career and, ultimately without realizing it, as my first mentor.

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.

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.

Understand customer usage Going a step further into customer behavior or usage, determining which platform to develop first should depend on whether your customer is a heavy user of iTunes or Google services such as Maps, Gmail, Calendar or Google Now.

«I was a step away from being homeless,» recalls Gonzalez, who lived on cheese sandwiches as he waited for his first cannabis harvest at the farm he was renting.

I wrote this book because there has been a lot written about the overall process of producing a deliverable, scalable model but not as much about zeroing in on that first step to launching.

As a first step, coaching acts as a catalyst and can help drill down and identify the areas where the client needs to work oAs a first step, coaching acts as a catalyst and can help drill down and identify the areas where the client needs to work oas a catalyst and can help drill down and identify the areas where the client needs to work on.

While Biles easily captured the gold in vault, things also didn't go as well for the men's all - around champion, Kohei Uchimura, who stepped out of bounds on his first tumbling run.

In 1990 he stepped down as Prime Minister in favor of Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yet remained in the Cabinet, first as a «Senior Minister» and then as «Minister Mentor,» vaguely defined posts that allowed him to oscillate between speaking engagements abroad while advising his ministerial colleagues on matters of state.

Your first step as a prospective borrower should be to verify that any liens on your record are accurate.

The first edition was published on January 20th 2015 as the first step towards developing a complete GPS system for global change makers, enabling them to move quickly and safely in a complex, fragile and uncertain environment.

On the maturity — Yes, 64 % of orgs who are in the sophisticated / mature phase cite customer retention / loyalty as a goal for content marketing over the next 12 months (vs. 56 % of all respondents, 58 % of those in the adolescent phase, and 46 % in the young / first steps phase)

Multiple sources further claim Spotify is taking the unusual step of filing for direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange rather than for an initial public offering, which indicates that the company wants to start selling shares without first putting on a series of presentations to investors in what's commonly known as a roadshow.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

When I stepped back into the clinic on Monday, open again as promised, the lobby was abuzz with stories from listless, sweat - slicked patients who were waiting to dose for the first time in days.

Of course, there are plenty of other steps to take after this, but this is the first step if you plan on getting anywhere as an entrepreneur.

The freeing up of the Super Bowl ads is what the industry fears will be the first step on a slippery slope to elimination of simsub altogether, coming as it does at a time when the whole economic ecosystem of Canadian broadcasting and Canadian content is under stress and under review.

You'll get instant alerts as soon as Ring detects motion, so you'll always be the first to know when anyone steps foot on your property.

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.

The list goes on: The company's former director of the self - driving group Raffi Krikorian stepped down a few months after the entity saw the departure of three other top self - driving engineers, as Recode first reported.

A content upgrade is what's known as a «Two Step Optin» — first you click on the link and then an optin form appears where you enter your email address.

As it turned out, only nine Courtenay - Comox votes — quite possibly from the very people we spoke with on those door steps, and almost certainly from some of those first - time voters we signed - up — currently make up the difference between another Christy Clark Big Money majority and the chance for a fresh start in B.C. politics.

The First Ministers» Meeting on climate change and clean growth, happening this week in Ottawa, is the next step in the process as provincial and territorial premiers work with Ottawa to develop a national climate strategy.

As a first step, we call on the San Francisco Fed to include the Chair of its own Community Advisory Board in the official selection committee for the next President.

Darnley Bay has initiated a Preliminary Economic Assessment on the project as a first step towards brining Pine Point back into production.

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

«Peter Lougheed created STEP in his first year as Premier, but now this PC Party has turned its back on his vision and destroyed thousands of student job opportunities,» said Notley.

On Monday, the Alibaba Group - owned company signed agreements with four U.S. travel agencies and tour operators as one of the first steps in that effort.

Vanguard is on track to more than double the size of its Shanghai office this year and may seek approval to sell products to wealthy investors as a first step before seeking a foreign - owned mutual fund license when regulators allow it in 2021, said Charles Lin, the firm's China head.

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.