Many hope it will be a first step towards a ban.

The report should be seen as a first step towards action.

Common and more integrated supervision is the first step towards a banking union.

Advance planning is the first crucial step towards effective management of conference services.

The first step, a step by step approach, entails negotiations on a limited number of initial steps towards nuclear disarmament, with additional steps being considered once the first steps are achieved.

It is a first step towards Ukraine s eventual full integration into the EU Single Market.

Today, as yesterday, the first step towards Serbia s European integration is full cooperation with the ICTY.

We believe that successful disengagement can be the first step towards the resumption of the peace process.

It hoped that, as a significant first step towards that end, the Conference would arrive at a consensus.

UNICEF agrees that reducing the number of payroll systems is the first step towards a common payroll system.

But the withdrawal of American nuclear weapons from Europe is by no means the first step towards nuclear disarmament.

The first step towards implementing such policies, however, must be to re invent and reinvigorate a pan African identity.

The Programme is a significant, but only the first, big step towards achieving the goal of controlling that scourge.

The withdrawal from Gaza was a first step towards the realization of the vision of the two State solution.

The path towards nuclear disarmament step by step, comprehensive or incremental comprehensive

That withdrawal should be the first step towards a complete withdrawal by Israel from all the Arab territories it occupied.

Whatever the ultimate economic effects of China s first modest step towards floating its currency, one has to admire its strategic brilliance.

This was the first use of X ray spectroscopy and also one more step towards the creation of X ray crystallography.

The Inspectors believe that the first step towards a common payroll system would be the reduction in the number of current payroll systems.

That withdrawal, when it took place, must be viewed as the first step towards the implementation of Israel's obligations under the road map.

For Gaddafi, this was an important step towards socialism.

The first step towards normalization of relations had been the signing in October 2004 of the financial plan for Slovenia to pay its arrears.

The entry into force of the CTBT would be the first essential step towards achieving our desired goals of nuclear disarmament and non proliferation.

That is the first step.

As a first step towards biodiversity recovery on the islands of the PIPA, in mid 2008 rats and rabbits were targeted on McKean and Rawaki.

In the ability of Governments to effectively plan and implement the policies that are necessary for good governance lies the first step towards broad capacity.

The first step is early engagement.

The Lisbon Treaty is a step towards adapting the EU s decision making mechanisms to the twenty first century and a membership of 27 or more countries.

The Russo Turkish War, 1735 1739 was the result of the Russian effort to gain Azov and Crimea as a first step towards dominating the Black Sea.

The Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, while welcome, should be regarded only as a first step towards full withdrawal from all the territories occupied in 1967.

That event has become another important step towards restoring statehood to Afghanistan.

Obviously, that represents an encouraging first step in bridging Egypt s divides. But, just as obviously, it is only a first step.

The first step is always the hardest.

But, this only marks the first step.

One critical step is to ensure zero tolerance towards those who promote extremism.

And this week, we have taken a very important step towards that end.

This is an important step towards normalization of relations between the two sides.

For Cuba, it is only one step on the path towards nuclear disarmament.

(b) The appointment by the International Labour Organization of a liaison officer in Myanmar as a first step towards the establishment of its full and effective representation in Myanmar

But this can only be a first step.

The first step should be to increase transparency.

An attacker's first step is usually information gathering this step is delayed by security through obscurity.

The first step towards a narrative capable of replacing earlier rallying cries like no more war and a single market and a single currency is to set out Europe s interests.

But you don't get to start on step three, until you take step one first I can.

And that's what comes to the first step here.