The second step follows the first step.

Obtaining consent is a vital but often overlooked skill for doctors. Understanding why so many doctors struggle with it is the first step toward raising the standards of consent.

Now the first step, pretty easy.

The first step is pattern recognition.

Mindlessly taking the first small step.

The first step is attention training.

The next vital step in achieving this must be an agreement on ambitious reforms in the Doha round.

The first step, a step by step approach, entails negotiations on a limited number of initial steps towards nuclear disarmament, with additional steps being considered once the first steps are achieved.

Further, recognition of the essential part played and to be played by civil society is another vital step forward.

The first step was to ask a question.

It is the first step which is troublesome.

The first step should be to increase transparency.

But you don't get to start on step three, until you take step one first I can.

If not, I will never do that first step.

And that's what comes to the first step here.

The meeting would constitute a first step in this direction.

First of all, let me get you to the end step.

And the first step is to start asking the right questions.

The report should be seen as a first step towards action.

As a first step, CARP had proposed convening a constituent assembly.

We urgently need to monitor and understand the role of shadow banking and the too big to fail banks in creating the global credit glut. Obtaining a full picture of global monetary and credit numbers and their determinants is a vital first step.

But his statements are only a first step toward formulating a new Russian agenda, the first point of which must be a renewal and acceleration of movement toward real and effective democracy. It is vital that Russians believe that Medvedev s words reflect his priorities, and that he is prepared to fight for them.

And of course, the first step is admit you've got a problem.

Take the first step, as soon as life appeared on this earth.

As a first step, cash donations were made to the countries affected.

The completion of the political transition is a vital step, but this alone will not be sufficient for the establishment of lasting peace in Afghanistan.

The necessity to create a rule based, open and non discriminatory trading system is a vital step in furthering the implementation of the right to development.

Makes the rocks crumble, and the first step in the generation of soil.

I think it's the first step toward that. That's the long term goal.

And the first step in that is selling the rights to resource extraction.

Rather, it is only the first step in the long, hard peacebuilding process.

Anyway, the first step has been taken and its importance cannot be overestimated.

Advance planning is the first crucial step towards effective management of conference services.

Now I don't pretend to have an answer to the Middle East conflict, but I think I've got a first step, literally, a first step, something that any one of us could do as third siders.

An important first step has been the establishment of the Group Against Human Trafficking .

This was regarded by our Group as the first step in the right direction.

ESA has decided to follow a step by step approach, assessing European interests and capabilities first, then defining a strategy at the European level as a preparatory step for a framework of future international cooperation.

As a first step, the Treaty must be supplemented and strengthened in order to adapt it to twenty first century realities.

In determining an equitable and reasonable use, States shall first allocate waters to satisfy vital human needs.

And what they do is step, very coarsely at first, and then very finely afterward.

Well nonetheless, on the top of the World Trade Center my first step was terrifying.

Under staff rule 111.2 (a), this review constitutes the first step of the appeals process.

Measuring the degree of vulnerability to food insecurity is the first step in poverty assessment.

Notification is the first step in combating impunity, protecting the victims and ensuring their rights.

These are vital questions, but they miss the larger significance of the rise of someone like Morales, for he is Bolivia s first indigenous elected head of state. His victory marks a step forward in Latin America s overall democratization, with positive long term significance for economic and social development in the region.