His first step on the ministerial ladder came two years later, when he was made Personal Private Secretary (PPS) to Malcolm Wicks, then pensions minister.
He had taken his first step toward freedom and independence.
Rizvan Kurbanov, the deputy prime minister in charge of security, says his first step was to visit a Salafi mosque and talk to its spiritual leaders, including Mr Magomedov.
That same year, he took his first step toward reversing his destiny: he married the playwright Molly Day Thacher, a blond Vassar graduate who had cast him in one of her plays.
That's when David Jones -- now performing as David Bowie -- took his first big step towards stardom.
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By making his retirement official this week, Shaq took the first step toward his next challenge, a much tougher one: becoming one of the great retired athlete marketers.
Observers see his appointment as a positive first step but say far more needs to be done.
When Labour came to power in 1945 Cripps made Mrs Castle his parliamentary aide, her first step on the ladder to power.
America is a country that embraces the idea of second acts, and Butcher is just auctioning off his first to finance the next step.
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"This is the first step in his comeback as a viable candidate, " says Barbara O'Connor, who teaches politics and media at California State University, Sacramento.
Yet these aides also say Bush is not about to forget, and they insist it is not his responsibility to take the first step toward mending fences.
Clark , who took the helm at Merck in May, made clear that the restructuring announced today represents only the first step in his plan to turn around the drug giant.
The first big step just preceded his taking over: the Prada phone, a sleek mobile co-branded with the Italian luxury house.
Rhetorical support from Obama in his speech to Congress is a necessary first step in a serious reform effort, but it is just a modest beginning.
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Admitting doping might be a first step into trying to mitigate his lifetime ban from competition.
In his first two years, he was good but a step below elite, averaging 18 points and 5.9 assists per game while hitting 44% of his three-pointers.
The first step he is taking is to turn his company into a content provider, instead of a content aggregator.
If a heavily indebted individual wanted to save for the future, a financial advisor would probably tell him the first step is to pay off some of his debts.
LeBron James scored 28 points in 30 minutes, Udonis Haslem had his first double-double of the season and the Heat moved a step closer to wrapping up home-court advantage throughout the NBA playoffs by topping the Bucks 94-83.
One of his biggest challenges during the semester was learning several programming languages as a first step, before he could even begin working on simulations for the robot.
Benedict announced his intention to step down on February 11 and resigned Thursday, becoming the first pope to do so in 600 years.
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Frankel's next challenge will be the Juddmonte Stakes at York later this month, which will see him step up from the mile distance for the first time in his career.
Imagine a President Obama as one of his first initiatives formally embracing the Open Fuel Standard, rewarding Detroit for taking a step that is highly desirable from both an environmental and national security perspective with a bailout tied to the imposition of such a standard on both domestic and foreign cars.
This bodywear line will be the first step towards making David Beckham a full blown fashion brand according to his business partner Simon Fuller.
Dr Steinhauer and his colleagues have not yet detected sonic Hawking radiation, but they have taken the first step: they have produced a dumb hole.
Asked about his June 4 speech in Cairo to the Muslim world, Obama called it a first step in the process of improving U.S. relations with Muslim countries.
To his credit, Mr Erdogan was the first Muslim leader to tell Egypt's Hosni Mubarak to step down.
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In the film's brisk, info-loaded first act, we see how this watchful, attentive henchman puts his learning into effect to step into his boss' shoes.
Using his country's oil money and an oil price over seventy dollars per barrel, the first step is to build strong support within Latin America.
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But his colleagues have warned Mr Ashdown that he can now take only one step at a time, and even then only after he has consulted first with his front bench.
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