Poncet says a hearing due next month would be suspended as a first step and then withdrawn.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

Last December in Copenhagen, the international community took a first step towards making society pay for the services provided by nature for free.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

Anti-discrimination activists like Mouloud Aounit believe that diversifying French universities is only a first step.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

He portrayed the trip as successful, if only as a first step.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

It carried the man who became the first human to step on the moon, Neil Armstrong, a former X-15 pilot.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

The first step is getting into a medical college.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

Moscow also sees the missile-defense system as the first step in a worldwide American missile-defense program.

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

"If it is just the first step, we can give Medvedev the benefit of the doubt, though this step is probably rather a clumsy one.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

One observer,Akiva Eldar, a senior columnist at the Haaretz newspaper in Tel Aviv, sees no movement unless one of the sides takes the first step.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

She says the first step is to determine if Madni was on a stop-over there and if so, other legal action will be set in motion.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first human to step on the Moon, observed the extraordinary accomplishment of the Apollo 11 mission forever established a lasting legacy in space flight.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

IRRI researcher Melissa Fitzgerald says finding the genes which control starch release is just the first step toward creating a grain that people will accept as part of their diet.

VOA: standard.2010.06.25

Britain's new cabinet agreed to cut the pay of all ministers by five percent, the first step in what is to be a major effort to cut Britain's national deficit.

VOA: standard.2010.05.13

But in a press appearance here, she said the resolution of the standoff - with the reinstatement of the country's deposed Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry - was a resolution by the Pakistanis themselves and a hopeful first step toward broader dialogue.

VOA: standard.2009.03.16

The first step uses a bit of influenza DNA to get the patient's immune system to begin fighting off the flu, and then the protection is given a "boost" some time later by the second step, which can be either another bit of DNA or a conventional flu vaccine.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

"I think that the proposal that the President made in Geneva to have Iran withdraw its enriched uranium, or a good portion of it, outside Iran is a positive first step in that direction and I support and appreciate the President's ongoing efforts to unite the international community to address the challenge of Iran's attempts to become a nuclear military power,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.30