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Example sentences for "first step"

  • Bosh's first step was to send a certain Gabralla, of the Fur tribe, as a spy to Zubeir's camp.

  • Mohammed el Fadl's first step as Sultan was to declare his mother's tribe as free for ever, the annual tribute of a girl was no longer to be exacted, and buying and selling of Begus was made a crime punishable by death.

  • Should any one, however, come to Omdurman and try to induce me to fly, my first step would be at once to inform the Khalifa.

  • My first step was to take off my bundle, and I told my companion to do the same.

  • My first step was to ask him if he wished to be free, and if he were disposed to hazard all in attempting his escape in my company.

  • My first step was to ask Toscani, Baletti, and the dancer Binetti to supper, as I had measures to concert with these friends of mine, whom I could rely on, and who had nothing to fear from the resentment of three rascals.

  • The whole procedure's overcharged,--its end In too strict keeping with the bad first step.

  • Simplicity is Nature's first step, and the last= 10 =of art.

  • Strongly approving, however, of the abstract idea that China should adopt a written code of commercial law as a first step towards a general legal reform, Sir T.

  • As a first step it was necessary to organise a company with sufficient capital to take over the government and utilise the resources of the territory.

  • Thus my first step in life was to exile my father, and leave myself a beggar,--a promising beginning, it must be owned!

  • As a first step, the worship of the Supreme Being was decreed, and a great festivity held, where Robespierre, decked with flowers, officiated as priest.

  • But Pitt had now made up his mind not only for repression in England but for war abroad, and the summoning of the militia was intended in fact as a first step in that direction.

  • The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward; Or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers.

  • Some reluctantly accepted the plan as a first step; the NAACP's Crisis called it "progress toward a more enlightened point of view.

  • As a first step it assigned eight Negroes to Recruitment Procurement School and subsequently to recruit duty in eight major cities with further such assignments planned when current manpower ceilings were lifted.

  • The Army, declaring that military efficiency demanded ultimate integration, temporized, guaranteeing as a first step an intricate system of separate but equal treatment and opportunity for Negroes.

  • Again suggesting voluntary methods as a first step, the committee called for the use of economic sanctions if voluntary methods failed.

  • It was when she found a reindeer caught in the vines that she took the first step in making a snare.

  • First tell her the rhymes and number of feet; and, as she comes late, she should, as a first step, pay a penalty by conforming to the task we had to do.

  • In the quiet night, alone and unaided, I took my first step on the toilsome and terrible journey that lay before me.

  • I shut it down again, and took my first step on the way of discovery.

  • If he were in the land of the living, I decided that my first step at starting should take me to the deformed man with the strange name.

  • We say an abridgement or first step, for reasons which shall afterwards be explained.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after bowing; first blush; first book; first century; first communion; first experience; first floor; first half; first impressions; first introduced; first journey; first meridian; first minister; first published; first reception; first session; first speech; first supposed; first term; first the; first used; first very; first voyage; first work; full sight; strangely enough