1.   Moving to Cottage Grove represented a definite step up for my parents.

2.   Congress has previously taken the position that India should not sign the treaty until the major nuclear powers agree to take definite steps to disarm their own nuclear stockpiles.

3.   He has seen only one show there, but he thinks Casa is a definite step up.

4.   It is a definite step up from the old sniff-and-poke method.

5.   Tony Gonzalez is having a sensational camp, and Lonnie Johnson is a definite step up from Ted Popson.

6.   But they see the current congressional legislation as a definite step back.

7.   Still, this step back is a definite step forward for a giant of classical music.

8.   The company has taken definite steps to slash costs and improve productivity.

9.   But KDD officials said definite steps had yet to be taken.

10.   The Chirac government has taken definite steps toward resuming the French nuclear testing program in the South Pacific since the French elections a month ago, Greenpeace said.