And, taken together, these steps advance our shared vision of a secure and peaceful Asia Pacific where the rights and responsibilities of all nations are upheld.
If Greenspan had acted responsibly and taken some of these steps, as some of us have urged at the time, the housing bubble could have been contained before it was too late.
These steps taken separately might make a slight difference in your retirement, but a series of incremental changes can make all the difference in the world.
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We know these steps taken alone are not going to solve all of our problems, but they will make a difference in the lives of millions of American families struggling to hold on.
YouTube has taken steps to address these concerns in the latest release of its online-video editor.
Unless these steps are taken, it would be wrong to expect a marked growth in the levels of business activity.
The steps taken by these departments and agencies are a big step forward to ensuring scientific integrity across the Federal government.
And these steps, taken by Democrats and Republicans, will grow the economy and add to the more than 1 million private-sector jobs created last year.
The Chinese government has taken many steps to combat these problems.
And these steps, taken by Democrats and Republicans, will grow the economy and add to the more than one million private sector jobs created last year.
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Taken individually, none of these steps may seem to be an undue hardship, a sacrifice too great to make in the interest of securing an elusive peace.
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His point was that the NIH and the Food and Drug Administration are increasingly able to handle preclinical and early clinical drug development, and that with these first steps taken medicines are more likely to be brought to market by large pharmaceutical companies.
If these steps are not taken by the summer of 2014, sanctions could be applied.
Had these steps not been taken we will never know the destruction that might have ruined more than defaulting homeowners.
After these steps have been taken, the world will be prepared if we then are forced to turn to a more traditional blockade.
These steps should be taken before the need for care arises.
All of these steps would be taken to ensure Social Security's solvency during a transition from the current pay-as-you-go system to a private account system, where less payroll tax revenue would be available to finance benefits.
In states like California and Indiana and Wisconsin, you're seeing steps taken to remove these so-called firewall laws so we can have a clear look at how well our children are learning and what can be done to help them learn better.
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It appears that both issuers and consumers have taken steps to help decrease both these figures.
Steps are taken to harmonise these policies, in the name of better government and a level playing-field.
Prompted by these fears, policymakers have taken various steps to try and spur a fresh wave of economic growth.
They have also taken the first steps towards arranging for these online course units to count towards full university degrees.
Congress has taken initial steps to ban many of these substances, and the Administration has sought to support their efforts.
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Until these and other steps are taken, presidents will have to govern constantly in a campaign season -- as will the opposition party.
Because these steps have not been taken, there is little doubt among the experts that high-altitude EMPs will harm the systems that Americans and their armed forces rely on each day.
"Your response should contain an explanation of the steps already taken to address these deficiencies and needs, and it should also detail the Bureau's future plans to address these critical IT issues, " the letter says.
These provisions have become popular as the Volker Rule and many banks have already taken steps to reduce their exposure to proprietary trading to comply with these directives.
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But a fundamental, bipartisan collaboration enabling these sorts of steps to be taken as swiftly as possible is essential if we are to reduce our present, abiding and intolerable vulnerabilities to future attacks.
The bad news is that, over the past decade, the ratings agencies have taken steps to buy and control some of these alternatives.
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