And Roosevelt's willingness to accept an unbalanced budget would be the first step toward federal budget deficits that would grow steadily in the years to come.

VOA: special.2011.04.07

Mapping genes is the first step to understanding an organism.

VOA: special.2010.10.19

He says identifying human antibodies that will stop the ability of the virus to reinvent itself is the first step.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

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 in pressing the oil from seeds is to crush the seeds between two stones.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

"We think that is an essential first step. We are continuing to call for the freedom of Aung San Suu Kyi.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

"When we look at counterinsurgency the first and critical step is to separate the enemy from the people,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

Kevin Volpp,director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Health Incentives, says these programs make it easier to take that first step to change.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

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

"The first step , he should persuade the Israelis to stop their settlement activities,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

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

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

"The good news from today is that one, he plans to return,two, he could return as early as this year, and three, he clearly has taken the first very visible step in the road to that return.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

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

"I believe that the resolution they have agreed upon is the first step of what has to be an ongoing reconciliation and compromising of political views that can stabilize civilian democracy and the rule of law, both of which are essential to the efforts that the Pakistanis themselves see as so critical - namely preventing extremism and violence from stalking the Pakistani peoples and the country,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.16