Australia is stepping up its regional outreach efforts.

Happily, we see that leadership is stepping forward forcefully.

It is significant that Bernanke will be stepping down at the beginning of 2014.

In fact, stepping out of one s comfort zone may offer significant benefits.

Some countries are already stepping up to the challenge.

It concludes with recommendations for improving and stepping up policy.

In this case, the driver stepping on the brake will give the passengers more confidence.

Stepping off the plane at Xieng Khuang province we were in a very rural area.

So, it's very indiscernible, but it's actually a continuous stair stepping.

That is why we favour stepping up international efforts agreed within the United Nations to reduce the spread of that pandemic in Africa.

And yet, if I've learned anything in nearly 12 years now of dragging heavy things around cold places, it is that true, real inspiration and growth only comes from adversity and from challenge, from stepping away from what's comfortable and familiar and stepping out into the unknown.

You throw everything else away. You become a monomaniac all you care about is not stepping out on that platform.

This is worth several billion dollars annually, which could constitute one of the essential stepping stones to sustained economic growth in Africa in a post petroleum era.

We should convert such failures to stepping stones leading to positive outcomes in their next rounds of activities.

In view of these factors, cyberwarfare may well become the stepping stone of military interstate conflicts in the near future.

Europe and Japan can increase their growth by stepping up the pace of structural reform.

The Book of Optics was an important stepping stone in the history of the scientific method and history of optics.

And what you end up seeing is the whole phenomenon of the fact that we are actually stepping forth and basically leveraging future education, future children in our households.

The International Monetary Fund is also stepping up its work in this area, through spillover reports on China, the euro zone, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

This crisis, too, can be a stepping stone for a long term political solution involving all parties in the Middle East.

In October 2013, Jeff announced that he would be stepping down from his position at ICANN at the end of 2013.

And that is a wonderful stepping away in perspective, to try to then think about the way our planet behaves, as a planet, and with the life that's on it.

Undoubtedly, one of the main reasons for this positive change is the setting aside of past constraints and the stepping down of the old guard.

The Government of Kazakhstan is stepping up its measures to strengthen national systems aimed at the monitoring, control, transport and physical protection of nuclear materials.

The countries of the Horn of Africa are now stepping forward to help themselves through this approach.

So, before stepping down, Mahathir went so far as to declare Malaysia a de facto Muslim state.

Stepping out of that unwelcoming mindset can be beneficial both for the refugees and the host countries.

But the economic model persisted, with Asian economies stepping in to finance the US deficits, while using the US market to grow rapidly.

We are also stepping up our technical assistance to strengthen economic policy making in Africa, and opening two new regional technical assistance centers.

As one Indian family described their visit to McDonald s, it was stepping out for a slice of America.

Some have been assassinated, one committed suicide, and others were arrested and condemned to death after stepping down.

He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

a great stepping stone for the Ministry to come up with its first ever major national policy document.

Arbitrary detentions and police raids constitute an invasion of privacy, stepping up the risk of gender based violence.

Stepping in to back the embattled president, the Organization of American States recently issued a call that Toledo be allowed to finish his term.

Moreover, New START is a necessary stepping stone to future negotiations with Russia about reductions in tactical nuclear arsenals, and a prerequisite for the successful revival of the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE).

He also finished third at the 2008 Summer Olympics, but was later disqualified for stepping out of his lane.

Not surprisingly, at least some people at the US Securities and Exchange Commission have reacted negatively this is stepping onto their turf, after all. And the lobbyists are, naturally, out in full force.

Syria is also stepping up its production and the effectiveness of its human resource development by reforming education, undertaking research and development, and developing professional and manufacturing facilities.

That award comes at a crucial moment in Chinese politics, as it may well become a stepping stone on China s long march toward greater freedom.

For our part, both the World Bank and the IMF are stepping up financial, technical, and analytical trade related assistance.

These two regions have now proclaimed their independence, and Moscow has given its blessing to a secession that is likely to be the stepping stone to incorporation by Russia.

They have now joined a highly publicized lawsuit against the school, stepping into the light of day under their own names.

Who knows? The result may yet turn out to be a stepping stone towards an effective state that deserves international recognition.

Seeing the economy hurtling toward a brick wall, they are holding their collective breath, while evidence that the government is serious about stepping on the brake can induce them to exhale.