The parliament undertook substantial steps toward securing the democratic evolution of Czechoslovakia.

Honduras is taking firm steps towards building a more inclusive democracy.

Speaking about discrimination, injustice, violence is the first step toward change.

The G8 can take four steps towards these ends.

Partly as a result of that agreement, the Balkan countries have taken major steps forward.

This year has witnessed major strides towards sustainable peace in the Sudan.

Even President U Thein Sein s government listened to the wishes of the people the new government shouldn t continue it, he added, saying that the NLD government should take decisive steps toward terminating the project.

Yet, as China takes minuscule steps forward, Russia takes giant steps backward.

Identifying objectives and strategies towards achieving these objectives are concrete steps towards the achievement of the group's overall goal.

We are hoping for similar steps by other States towards that goal.

Despite that, they have courageously taken steps towards the restoration of full democracy and the control of their own destiny.

UNICEF agrees and has taken steps to update the job descriptions of its senior staff.

These are steps toward the unification of a state and nation, and not attempts to gain revenge or break up Russia.

The reforms have been lauded as a crucial step towards a more stable two party system.

China s leaders need to make several concrete moves in order to move beyond rhetoric.

In recent weeks and months, the Palestinian Authority continued to take specific steps towards reforming the structure of the security services.

Society was moving in the direction of liberalization, and further reforms would surely be forthcoming in due course.

With its remarkable ability to adapt, China is making strides to accommodate the rising power of its markets and people.

Since the Chief Prosecutor's last report, the Bosnia and Herzegovina authorities have undertaken positive steps towards improving cooperation with the ICTY.

It would thus be advisable to make some perhaps small but constructive steps towards meeting each other's expectations and rebuilding mutual confidence.

That could be a turning point, provided it is adequately reinforced with additional steps toward greater integration.

Steps have been taken towards implementation of an anti corruption strategy including an information campaign and workshops to draft an action plan.

Early steps toward interest rate liberalization and hints of reform of the antiquated hukou (residential permit) system are also encouraging.

Israel would like to have seen the language of these resolutions reflect more comprehensively the Israeli Palestinian conflict and offer more productive steps.

Throughout the long years of this bloody tragedy, we have tried to inch our way to a settlement through confidence building measures or, in the case of the long dead Road Map, through pushing both parties to take parallel steps towards an agreement.

It cannot wait to inject capital into the banks. It must take immediate steps toward debt mutualization.

For many years, Japan has been taking very cautious steps into this area, but substantial changes have occurred recently.

Russian authorities may be advancing that goal by taking initial steps toward improving corporate governance in state owned companies.

About 100 meters to the left from the top of the Spanish Steps, there is a bronze monument of Giovanni holding the dying Enrico in his arm.

My country believes that the Declaration is a starting point towards taking major steps to protect human dignity and prevent its violation under any kind of interpretation.

Ignoring Puerto Rico's aspirations for self determination and independence, the United States refused to take steps toward genuine decolonization.

The European Union has recently taken important steps towards greater cohesion and unity with the appointment of a President and High Representative for Foreign Affairs.

ATI has since merged with AMD Corporation and has taken steps to make their hardware documentation available for use by the free software community.

Despite the energy, resources and efforts diverted from development in order to preserve democracy, Nicaragua has made major strides towards fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals.

Similarly, Ethiopia has made strides towards shifting agricultural policies and investing more in productivity improvements for small farmers, with increased spending helping to boost crop yields over the past several years.

Nor can they be considered the first tentative steps towards such a shared destiny, in the manner of the 1952 European Coal and Steel Community Treaty, which began the project for European unity.

Thus, Iraq is seeing both escalating intra sectarian violence and cautious steps towards inter sectarian alliances.

State authority has been restored throughout Sierra Leone and significant strides have been made towards re establishing the Government's control over the country's diamond mining sector.

Europe s Next Steps

General steps

We did so after Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, where the challenge now is to push for political progress, including credible steps on human rights and democracy.

Now, China s government must take fiscal decentralization further, giving each local government the authority to collect taxes and control its budget s scale and structure.

The Summit had confirmed that the time had come for bold targeted steps to remove external difficulties to such integration.

Development has been slow.

Those were welcome first steps.