Initial step

This is only an initial step, but it is an enormous one.

The report of the Secretary General is an initial step in the right direction.

This is an encouraging first step in a process that will require building on these initial discussions.

As an initial step in this direction, this note identifies seven areas at the interface of corporate activities and economic development as initial core topics.

Can they come together? Can they make the initial step towards this?

17. A graduated (step by step, or incremental) approach this would not preclude an eventual conference when appropriate, but permits focus on feasible initial steps building upon existing areas of cooperation.

The memorandum should be seen as an initial step towards defining a position on the gender issue, raising awareness and putting into place an integrated national gender policy.

For reasons given in paragraph 5 of your report, you propose the configuration of an initial backbone satellite network as an interim step towards a global telecommunications network.

The technique is promising, but the initial air separation step demands a lot of energy.

The score of the single best initial region found in step 2 is reported ( init1 ).

The agreement regarding the agenda for the Jordanian Israeli negotiations is a positive initial step.

But the Palestinians' political future must not be limited to the withdrawal that must be an initial step within the framework of the road map.

The Israeli Palestinian peace process is but an initial, though highly important, step towards achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East.

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.

The Security Council, in its resolution 908 (1994) of 31 March 1994, decided, as an initial step, to authorize an increase of UNPROFOR personnel by up to 3,500 additional troops.

So now that he's over the initial shock, I can step in and close the deal.

Security Council members will be invited to debate modalities to achieve the aforementioned purposes and support a Security Council resolution as an initial step in this respect.

It is all the more urgent, then, that we take the initial step as soon as possible.

Such an approach incorporates step by step measures within a comprehensive framework.

The draft resolution underlines, however, that this is only the initial step albeit an important one in achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East.

This is an important step forward.

For the initial review, the time frames for the initial check may serve as an indication.

They came up with an initial 65 ideas.

Who's Mr. N? It can't be an initial.

For that, we use an initial measurement unit.

104. Inspectors examined in considerable detail accountability and oversight in the United Nations Secretariat as an initial step in a broader study of these subjects in the United Nations system.

That would be an almost unprecedented step.

You're actually doing an extra step here.

We welcome the initial step taken by the President of the Council, last month, to hold briefings for interested delegations.

We would see that not as a reform step but as an anti reform step.

(a) An initial workshop for reaching agreements among collaborators

The criminal proceedings are in an initial screening phase.

And that's often done with an initial public offering.

It is an initial but essential step to effectively address the problem of missile proliferation from a multilateral global perspective without precluding other initiatives or, in the longer term, more comprehensive approaches.

(d) The full involvement of the Commission of the African Union in the search for a political solution in Abuja and the signature of the Declaration of Principles as an initial step

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

But really, an algorithm is just a systematic, step by step way to solve a problem.

This declaration was an important and responsible step.

Writing down the DNA was an interesting step.

We need an anti Templeton to step forward.

Mission in Haiti for an initial period of six months

Then we select an initial position from the rotor sequence.

When planning an initial product, which is the most important?

In computer science, an algorithm is a set of instructions for solving some problem, step by step.