Sentences with phrase «substantial steps toward»

The Hague Conference on Private International Law has taken substantial steps toward realizing the conclusion of an international convention to allow judgments rendered by a court in one country to be recognized and enforced in another country.

We must quickly start to change our life - styles and make substantial steps toward sustainability.

Those substantial steps don't have to be all that substantial, 9 and there's no doubt that Valeant and Pershing had taken substantial steps toward trying to acquire Allergan.

Right around the time that Albert Shanker began promoting a new form of charter - supported schooling, the U.S. federal government took a substantial step toward supporting the educational rights of students with disabilities.

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The other question is whether Valeant had, at the time Pershing started buying, taken any «substantial steps» toward launching a tender offer.

While it's true that eating solid foods is one of the steps toward weaning, breastmilk should still be the baby's primary source of nutrition for the first year of life, and for those babies who continue to nurse into the second year, breastmilk is still a substantial part of their diet.

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.

Substantial initial efforts along these lines were pursued during the First NCA through stakeholder meetings and regional workshops (NAST 2001, Moser 2005), were revived during the Third NCA (Cloyd et al 2016), and should be expanded and institutionalized as a first step toward drawing stakeholders much more deeply into the assessment process.

There are many acts which, when committed, could be considered a «substantial step» toward killing another person.

That would be one small but important step toward reducing the substantial distance that still remains between companies and the people they serve.

If SB 827 passes, it would be the most important step in decades toward upping the state's housing supply in substantial numbers.