Sentences with phrase «at least a step in»

Some commentators are cheering AT&T's U-verse privacy move because it's at least a step in the right direction, even if it is an expensive one.

But after another round of results last week that offered few major new ideas on how to turn around Chipotle's battered public reputation, they said Niccol's appointment was at least a step in the right direction.

Unless someone else is willing to provide something better, we need to simply recognize that this act is at least a step in the right direction.

So it's at least a step in the right direction, isn't it?

«The redistricting efforts we made were so that the community could have a stronger voice,» said James Hong, of the MinKwon Center, in downtown Flushing, who added that the final lines were not ideal but at least a step in the right direction.

It is, however, at least a step in the right direction.

But he also saw a possible solution, or at least a step in the right direction.

«We are a long way from having an effective tau - directed drug, but the work of Fitzpatrick and colleagues is at least a step in the right direction.»

Though it still falls short of the Colorado's available forward collision warning, the addition of these two new features is at least a step in the right direction for Toyota's updated truck.

Nook still uses a black and white eInk screen but having a color touchscreen is at least a step in the right direction.

While seeking debt help is at least a step in the right direction, know that if you do your own debt management, you'll come out of the experience much more empowered, plus you can't beat the fact that it's lighter on your wallet!

But the owner and I can at least step in for the Nurture aspect, and help dogs overcome their behavioral issues, despite genetic dispositions or breed biases.

That is something of a new development, or at least another step in the right direction.

And, are the INDCs at least a step in the right direction?

In these kinds of cases it is critical that the mediator show his understanding of how the injury victim feels.That is at least a step in the right direction as it reflects an underlying interest that the victim has that must be addressed.

If you know them as a friendly, cooperative, and generally easy to deal with lawyer, that is at least a step in the right direction.

It honestly would've been nice to get an even bigger screen this time — say, 11 inches — but Apple's size decision here was at least a step in the right direction.

Personally, I'm waiting for the day when YouTube stops creators plastering massive annotations all over their videos to spam other content, but this is at least a step in the right direction.

«To have the reports of both of them is at least a step in the right direction.»

Not exact matches

(See How to Deal with Time Wasters) Such sessions rarely accomplish anything except maybe some pseudo-bonding; they don't have a logical and clearly - understood endpoint so they seem both pointless and interminable; and, most often, they sorta drool to a conclusion without agreed - upon action items and / or documented next steps for at least half the people in the room.

Meanwhile, marijuana remains illegal on the federal level, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recently taken steps that would allow federal prosecutors in states where weed is legal to decide whether to prosecute people over marijuana sales in a development that could threaten the burgeoning industry (or, at the very least, spur litigation from some of the states in question looking to keep the federal government from interfering with statewide legislation).

At least a half - dozen natural gas pipeline projects totaling more than $ 10 billion have been in limbo since Democrat Norman Bay stepped down from the panel in February.

Regardless of what's going on in your personal life, it's important to at least to try to leave it behind when you step into the office.

Overall, she says, her data has confirmed that when entrepreneurial couples — couples with at least one entrepreneur in the household — follow a few key steps, their relationships, though challenging because of the business, are not doomed.

Far better, at least from the bank's point of view, is to have the government step in and re-level the playing field for everyone — providing, of course, the changes don't take too big a bite out of profits.

Adding «at least a step or two» in the registration process might dissuade people from signing up, even in the face of penalties, he said.

«Scouts BSA» smells like a compromise between at least two groups: traditionalists who didn't want girls in the Boy Scouts to begin with, and other groups that are more progressive, or that at least that think that demographics are destiny — and that a half - step towards the future is better than none.

So, remember to check your credit score at least annually and take steps to maintain a good score in order to maximize the opportunities available to you in the future.

Coming up with a smart, competition - based pricing strategy is one of the fundamental steps you should take to stay at least in the game in 2017.

All in all, we believe eurozone bond yields may move a little higher, but any increase is likely to be capped by the ECB's ongoing level of purchases, at least until policymakers start to signal their next steps on monetary policy later in the year.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

I will take it a step further by saying even financial advisors who actually believe the «buy - and - hold» model will no longer be very effective in the future (at least for the next several decades), will still not tell you otherwise.

Almost half of the U.S. public company directors surveyed said at least one of their peers should step aside in favor of someone new.

The House budget is far more responsible than the Senate budget because its reconciliation instructions would at least move our fiscal situation in the right direction, while the Senate's would take a big step back.

For instance, in a similar step - transaction - doctrine issue with partial 1035 annuity exchanges and subsequent liquidations (which allowed annuity owners to get more favorable treatment in the multi-step process than could have been obtained if treated as a whole), the IRS ultimately declared in Revenue Procedure 2008 - 24 that as long as the taxpayer waited at least 12 months between the 1035 exchange and the subsequent liquidation, it would be allowed.

Whilst the sector has traditionally been seen as a stepping stone on the way to long - term leases, the evidence suggests that the sector is now being seen as a long - term option with 39 % of businesses now staying in businesses centres for at least three years, an almost three-fold increase on 2014.

At the very least, the Nielsen data makes a strong case for the theory that the time we allocate to consuming entertainment content is valuable in direct proportion to its finitude and therefore may be better spent by side - stepping the advertisements for all those things we've never had any interest in buying in the first place.

There are plenty of people who see cryptocurrencies, however flawed, as a step in the right direction because they at least take power away from governing authorities and give individuals more freedom.

«but at least a flat tax on gross income is a step in the right direction...... no?»

In fact, the Dow and S&P 500 has unraveled, retracing their steps right into correction territory on Thursday, defined as a decline of at least 10 % from their peaks, a mere two weeks following his comments.

Sure, Catholic doctrine is out - dated and in some cases counter-productive, but this pope is at least taking some «baby steps» to truly help and accept all people.

I do not believe in god, but I also go a step further to say that I would not want there to be a god, at least not in the context of modern day religion.

As I said to a sibling, if my view is wrong in the eyes of god, then at least god knows every step of the path that led me to what I believe, and it comes down to being answerable only to god, if the Christian orthodox have it «right».

One might find at least a tiny echo of this inadequate notion of reform in his initial impulse to rebuild Christ's Church by attending to ecclesiastical masonry — an episode in the early steps of his pilgrimage toward Christ that makes me think of present - day temptations to live the New Evangelization by getting top - drawer management consultants to advise the Church on messaging.

If you want to back the real criminals, at least stay in step with them, use the 60's culture as the blame.

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In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestatioIn taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestatioin the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestatioin the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestatioin the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestatioin history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestation.

Even my very conservative Roman Catholic brother gave me kudos when I said that if nothing else, as a Baptist, my two cherished beliefs were in soul liberty and seperation of church and state... so, if god was there and I was completly wrong not to believe in him, then at least he knew every step of my journey, and in the end my salvation, or lack of it, was between me and god.

The first step is «to commit ourselves to the possibility and the desirability of attempting to think through (at least in a rudimentary way) our position on some aspects of the ultimate questions about life, death, and reality.»

Because we ministers rightly believe that involvement in the reconciling process is a central task, we are more reluctant than most people to step back when, at least for the time being, the initial conditions for that process are not present.