1.   Around the country, the first tentative steps have been taken toward this new alliance.

2.   Sometimes a trade wind takes me toward land.

3.   As a price, however, he has insisted that no action be taken toward removing dams on the Snake River.

4.   As it happened, the misdiagnosis of pancreatic cancer was the first step Yaus took toward medical history.

5.   A government committee was set up to study a move the following year, yet few concrete steps have been taken toward actually relocating the capitol.

6.   A representative office is the first step an insurance company takes toward selling insurance in China.

7.   A second proposal outlined several steps that the government might take toward regulation.

8.   A worried nation is waiting to see what steps President Clinton takes toward a steadier balance.

9.   All the little steps that had been taken toward peace in the province have been betrayed by the pygmies of the political process.

10.   But by getting rid of his stolid old retainer, Yeltsin actually made the most decisive step he has ever taken toward the road of reform.