But he was also right that it would be the first step toward ending slavery in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

He says identifying human antibodies that will stop the ability of the virus to reinvent itself is the first step.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

The first step in pressing the oil from seeds is to crush the seeds between two stones.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

The civil war in Greece ended. American help for Greece and Turkey was the first step in what became known as the "Truman Doctrine."

VOA: special.2011.08.04

Many Americans were honestly worried that Roosevelt's expansion of government was the first step to dictatorship.

VOA: special.2011.03.31

The primary election in New Hampshire was the first step of the presidential nominating process.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

And Roosevelt's willingness to accept an unbalanced budget would be the first step toward federal budget deficits that would grow steadily in the years to come.

VOA: special.2011.04.07

Outline.So the first step in terms of my writing is outline."

VOA: special.2009.10.12

Mapping genes is the first step to understanding an organism.

VOA: special.2010.10.19

The first step is getting into a medical college.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

Moscow also sees the missile-defense system as the first step in a worldwide American missile-defense program.

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

"If it is just the first step, we can give Medvedev the benefit of the doubt, though this step is probably rather a clumsy one.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

One observer,Akiva Eldar, a senior columnist at the Haaretz newspaper in Tel Aviv, sees no movement unless one of the sides takes the first step.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

For many of these activists, stopping health care reform is the first step toward defeating Democrats in Congress in November and President Obama in 2012.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18