1.   But the crucial step is to take responsibility for that belief.

2.   I am saying, however, that Macintosh was the crucial step, the turning point.

3.   Too often, uninformed adults discount and dismiss all the crucial steps children take en route to becoming independent readers.

4.   This process of elaborating a concept and moving toward empirical indicators is the crucial step in variable analysis.

5.   He said it was the crucial first step in the process of removing the scars from the Lanarkshire landscape.

6.   Although some people wish it had not been quite so vivid, most seem to agree that it has been a crucial step forward.

7.   American diplomats, who have been trying to persuade India and Pakistan to sign, say the treaty is a crucial step to halt the spread of nuclear weapons.

8.   And thousands of women will be one crucial step closer to a powerful new treatment.

9.   At Harvard Medical School, developmental biologist Susan Dymecki just found a crucial genetic step that gave rise to those indispensable digits.