Nevertheless critics denounced the changes as the first step toward deploying weapons in space.
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Because gun owners see a registry as the first step in taking their property away.
Mr Levine sees this as the first step in a world of possibilities for this type of technology.
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But many analysts see this week's hostage releases as the first step toward an eventual peace accord with the government.
But right-to-life groups and religious leaders see it as the first step down a slippery slope to full human cloning.
An exploratory committee is seen as the first step toward a formal candidacy, allowing candidates to raise money and fund campaign trips.
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They spoke alone for about an hour, in a move seen as the first step in healing the rifts in the party.
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The procedure has been hailed as the first step in humans of efforts to be able to restore sight in blind people.
The US has welcomed Monday's agreement as the first step towards the restoration of full diplomatic relations and close co-operation against drugs.
Her elevation to the status of "respected mother" was seen by many as the first step in the transfer of power to her sons.
Many analysts see this unilateral act by the FARC as the first step toward an eventual peace accord with the government of President Alvaro Uribe.
Hence, if competitive distortions can be avoided, we support airlines' inclusion in the EU Emissions Trading System as the first step towards a global cap-and-trade framework.
The agreement establishes a 29-member interim cabinet headed by Karzai, meant as the first step toward a broad-based government representing the range of Afghanistan's ethnic groups and regions.
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He tells his clients to take care of their physical health by eating well, getting good sleep, exercising regularly and avoiding substances like alcohol, as the first step towards mental health.
Now both parties are summoning their congressmen, mayors and local councillors from all over the country to Santiago, apparently as the first step in a plan to bring Congress and local government to a standstill.
Union leaders deny any intention of bringing it or the country to its knees, but many see Wednesday's stoppage as the first step in a campaign to draw attention to the problems of ordinary people.
And so the best thing to do is to keep pro-growth economic policies in place as the first step to making sure we're the most powerful economy in the world, and I think that means keeping those taxes low.
His present initiative will be seen by friends and potential adversaries in the region as the first step toward that goal a signal of receding American commitment to the security of a key ally at a turbulent moment in its history.
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The big flaw in the plan is that taxable transactions are likely to migrate outside the EU. Although the commission bills its proposals as the first step towards a global agreement, it is hard to discern sweeping international enthusiasm for the idea.
Made up initially of one prosecutor from each member state, Eurojust is seen by pro-integrationists as the start of a joint European prosecution service - just as they regard Europol, which co-ordinates investigations of cross-border crime, as the first step towards a European police force.
Some of the dissidents seem to have deliberately eschewed the business of talking to go-betweens and forming political front groups, as they regard this as the first step on the road to being seduced away from violence, just like the Provisional and Official IRA before them.
So, now we have a government split between a party which wants to see this veto as the first step to a totally new looser relationship with the EU and a party led by a man who's pledging to "fight, fight and fight again" to stop that happening.
More have trumpeted a successful BlackBerry 10 as a the first step in a revitalized RIM.
Long before the current era of computers, the inventor Blaise Pascal designed a mechanical calculator in 1642 -- regarded by many as the first decisive step toward modern microprocessors.
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Perhaps the recent sequester overhyped yet still expected to yield more cutbacks in and around Washington than elsewhere will wind up as the first small step of a new age of forced austerity.
As the saying goes, the first step toward recovery is to acknowledge the problem.
The report was intended as a first step in the process of reconciliation, but that process failed to advance, partly because General Pinochet stayed on as army commander until 1998.
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