"One step forward two steps back, that's kind of what's happening, " manager John Gibbons said.

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And in fact I think there might be such frustration and cynicism that rather than taking one step forward, we ended up taking two steps back.

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This suggests that markets may settle into a pattern of two steps forward, one step back.

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"It's two steps forward, one step back, " Mr. Williams said.

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"We may have taken one step back having taken two steps forward, " said his lawyer, Clare Montgomery QC.

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You take two steps forward, you take one step back.

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But for every two steps forward James and his redemption take, he moves one step back.

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