Sentences with phrase «major steps toward»

Amazon reportedly has taken major steps toward becoming a drug distributor and seller — actions that have caused concern among potential competitors and may have figured heavily in CVS» negotiations to buy health insurance firm Aetna for US$ 66 billion.

The Tournesol Award recognizes one Bay Area painter each year, supporting him or her in taking major steps toward establishing and maintaining a career in the Bay Area.

In fairness the developers have already made a few major steps toward improvement since release, sticking in a menu system along the top that lets you jump to all the different locations without ever having to return to the world map if you don't want to, so hopefully as time progresses everything will get cleaned up.

Texas must take major steps toward investing in at least five additional major flagship universities.

We've taken major steps toward strengthening the teaching profession from within.

If you're completely new to the idea of student voice, Imagine Education has a good primer on the overall concept, and the 4 major steps toward making student voice work.

According to the theory, billions of years ago, one microbe engulfed another, one of the first major steps toward the complex plant and animal cells we see today.

These will be major steps toward meeting DOE's environmental remediation goals.»

«These numbers are evidence that the Center has taken major steps toward our goal of forming a community of faculty and students from diverse institutions in Atlanta and supporting their research and education in behavioral neuroscience,» said CBN Director Elliott Albers.

These reforms will take major steps toward addressing instances of abuse and pension padding.

Getting the temperature right for your child and finding the right transitional object are major steps toward creating an environment that decreases anxiety.

But even these two «moderates» made major steps toward a sensible Establishment Clause jurisprudence, stripped of the old hostility to religion (and especially to Catholic institutions).

These proved to be a major step toward the Saturn V, hence why the Jupiter series was later nicknamed «an infant Saturn.»

CMS has taken a major step toward breaking the cycle.

In a blog post titled, «Google + is the social backbone,» Dumbill described the new project as the first major step toward integrating all social applications, much like e-mail went from a number of closed systems to incorporating one online communication standard as a foundation.

It was a major step toward Nadella's new vision for Microsoft as a company that provides business services tech.

Rocket Lab blasted off into space on Saturday, taking a major step toward opening low - cost access for a new generation of satellites.

Harold Evensky of the wealth management firm Evensky Katz Foldes and Texas Tech University said in an email that the DOL rule constituted a «major step toward a more secure and dignified retirement for millions.»

In 2014, we took a major step toward that goal by adopting the Bitcoin Payment Protocol on all BitPay invoices and in BitPay's wallet platform.

Taking his first major step toward his company's growth, Mensah moved the startup into Bamboo Detroit in late 2013 after meeting the co-working space's co-founder, David Anderson, a proud fellow Detroit native who's also extremely passionate about revitalizing his stomping grounds.

«This will serve as a major step toward creating a global connected platform, making it the largest global ecosystem for commercial vehicles,» says Troy Clarke, Navistar president and CEO.

China Capital Markets In a major step toward opening China's capital account, Hong Kong and Shanghai have linked their equity markets and abolished the cap on how much Chinese currency Hong Kong residents may purchase (or sell) daily.

For XRP, however, it is a major step toward becoming a mainstream digital asset.

His arcologies would be a major step toward reduced use of fuels and the self - sufficiency of cities.

By 1911 the CENTURY regularly published a department covering news of «interdenominational acquaintance» This marked its first major step toward a 1916 declaration that it was an «undenominational» journal.

The trend poses a grave threat to American democracy: as Sarat quotes from Thurgood Marshall in his dissenting opinion in Payne, this return of revenge signals «one major step toward the demise of a conception of law as a «source of impersonal and reasoned judgments.»»

The administration's recently released National Strategy for Victory in Iraq is, in my judgment, a major step toward getting the navigation right, at least with respect to Iraq.

The idea of culturing flesh for meat and other animal products is more than a gee - whiz moment for technology geeks — whoever can bring the food technology to market will take a major step toward alleviating one of the key factors fueling humanity's large looming crises.

Kinkaid made 35 saves and the Devils took another major step toward making the playoffs for the first time since 2012 with a 2 - 1 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday night.

A pair of own goals helped Barcelona take a major step toward the Champions League semifinals with a 4 - 1 win over Roma at the Camp Nou on Wednesday.

Watch the full match highlights as Juventus took a major step toward a seventh straight Serie A title on Sunday as it beat Sampdoria 3 - 0 after Napoli was held to a 0 - 0 draw at AC Milan.

According to Mozilla's CEO, Gary Kovacs «The launch of Firefox 4 for Mobile is a major step toward making the Web accessible and customisable for all users wherever they go.

«I have long felt that implementing an Independent Redistricting Commission would be a major step toward achieving the reform that Albany needs.

The Bronx lawmaker, himself a child of NYCHA, said he would like to see New York's developments take part in the program — which is seen as a major step toward the privatization of public housing — even though he acknowledged that it is «controversial» among liberal advocates.

«This is a major step toward breaking the cycle of recidivism, increasing public safety and creating a stronger and more secure New York for all.»

«I believe the single most transformative component of the budget is a property tax program,» Cuomo said in the call, adding, «This budget takes a major step toward reforming that problem which has plagued this state for many years.»

«The NYPD's stop - and - frisk policy has driven a wedge between the police and our communities, and today's decision is a major step toward rebuilding that trust.

Meanwhile, Bronx Assemblyman Carl Heastie took a major step toward replacing Silver after his main rival for the job — Majority Leader Joseph Morelle — dropped out of the race and backed Heastie.

«This $ 2 million award from the Rural and Urban Community Investment Fund marks a major step toward making theREP at Livingston Square a reality,» said Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan.

PowHer New York applauds the Governor for taking this next major step toward eliminating the wage and opportunity gap and is committed to advancing these recommendations to create economic equality for all women.»

He believes it would be a major step toward resetting America's positions on trade on the international stag, and also send a message to our trading partners the status quo no longer applies.

Caroline Wojtaszek, a former sex crime prosecutor, was endorsed for Niagara County district attorney by the county Democratic Committee in a major step toward what may turn out to be an unopposed candidacy to become the county's first woman DA.

Tarrytown Mayor Drew Fixell said, «The lowering of this span is a major step toward the completion of the new Mario M. Cuomo Bridge and I applaud all of the hard working men and women who are helping bring this project to fruition.

Perhaps the most far - reaching aspect of Barbour's view of gravity is that it could reconcile general relativity and quantum mechanics, the physics of the subatomic realm, marking a major step toward the long - sought theory of everything.

This is a major step toward a nuclear clock that could keep even better time than today's best atomic timekeepers.

However, EPA's power plant regulations are likely the last major step toward achieving emissions reductions by 2020.

A team of researchers has taken a major step toward one of the hottest goals in cancer research: a blood test that can detect tumors early.

«This is a major step toward restoring some independence.»

A major step toward reform would be to prohibit campaign contributions by individuals employed by registered lobbying firms.

Zhang, a mathematician at the University of New Hampshire, stunned the mathematical world in May when he reported a major step toward solving one of the oldest outstanding problems in number...