As usual, Allison Fine was already a half step ahead of me.
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Though Israel's exasperation is understandable, it would be wiser to take a half-step in response to what some see as a half-step by Hamas.
On Wednesday night she started fast but found herself a half step behind coming out of the final hurdle, then couldn't quite close the gap.
It's a major-key sound, but unlike our major keys, which have a half step between the third and fourth tones, the Lydian scale has a whole step there, and the half step between steps four and five.
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Each step forward, however, is often accompanied by a glance, or even a half-step, back.
Such research also represents a healthy half-step between pure academic research and for-profit development.
The FAA took a half-step in that direction in 2008, creating a nonpunitive reporting system for air traffic controllers.
The occasional half-step across that ill-defined line is tolerated, indeed applauded at times.
You know, I was worried about getting half a step slow doing this because my whole life is my foundation now.
Mr Obama also took a half-step in the direction of bringing down costs through the Republicans' favoured measure: tackling the huge costs of doctors' legal liabilities.
Somehow feels that I always miss that half a step.
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Then again, markets have often rallied ahead of summits in the expectation of an agreement, only to be disappointed within days, or even hours, of the latest half-step being announced.
Though the U.S. is Ecuador's most important trading partner, Alberto Acosta, who was elected to the constitutional assembly and serves as its president, opposes negotiations for a free trade agreement with the U.S. Instead, he wants "a commercial agreement"--some kind of half-step toward free trade.
Often, the deterioration reveals itself in increments a mile or two per hour in lost velocity, a half-second slower step initially imperceptible to the athlete.
And it would also address in one step more than half of the so-called fiscal cliff.
Pavey will step up to half-marathon in the Great North Run, which takes place on 1 October.
That one step alone would solve half of the deficit problem.
Royal Dutch Shell has announced that its chief executive will step down in the first half of 2014.
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Nielsen took the first step a year and a half ago when it began including time-shifted viewing data, typically measured within three (termed "live plus three") or seven days ("live plus seven") of a program's original airing.
As a first step, the scientists examined half a million genetic markers in the participants' DNA. These markers, known as single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, can together reveal how genetically similar people are, even though they are not conventionally related.
Or it may see in Sharp and its Sakai factory, from which Hon Hai will eventually take half the output, the promise of a technological step up.
One step-sister has been refashioned as half of a secondary couple, and the King and Queen have been dispatched in favor of a wicked stepfather figure for the Prince.
Half of all adoption orders are now accounted for by step-parents formally assuming the care of their partners' children.
Five tries in an 18-minute spell early in the second half brought the Bulls a ninth successive victory and a step closer to a fifth-successive Grand Final appearance.
The visitors had a spring in their step and moved further ahead just after the half-hour, McGillvary taking a superb lofted pass from Brown to dart over in the corner.
HALF-EXPECTING to be shot, dozens of tourists nervously step down from the luxury buses that line up every Sunday morning outside the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem.
It looks like they've struck a sweet spot with performance and have taken a bit step forward as they usually do in the second half of the season.
Half of the danger to our economy is removed by that single step.
However, for Jackson, a measured step is when she only gets to move the goalpost half as far as she wanted to.
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The first step is the repurchase by Alibaba of up to one-half of Yahoo!'
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