All seven recognized that independence was but the first step toward building a nation.

Noting such evidence is the first step ; ;

This involves a shift in Patchen's attitude and it is a first step toward writing a new jazz poetry.

If the decision goes wrong, it may be -- as Mr. Stevenson fears -- `` the first step on the slippery path downhill '' to a U.N. without operational responsibilities and without effective meaning.

A united Germany, freed of militarism, might be the first step toward disarmament and peace in a terrorized and tortured world.

Since accurate base maps are necessary for any planning program, the first step taken by the planning division to implement the long-range state plan has been to prepare two series of base maps -- one at a scale of 1 inch to a mile, and the second a series of 26 sheets at a scale of 1 inch to 2000 feet, covering the entire state.

As a first step toward this goal, arrangements were worked out for comparing the scales now in use through circulation of a group of standard platinum resistance thermometers for calibration by each national laboratory.

The first step is a comprehensive self study made by faculty, by outside consultants, or by a combination of the two.

The first step in using a formula is to insert the numerical values of the factors involved in their correct positions in the formula.

But the Russians use gymnastics as the first step in training for all other sports because it provides training in every basic quality except one, endurance.

To learn what we do is the first step for improvement.

The first step in processing was to analyze the returns from Questions 1, 2, and 3 to determine whether the respondents were large businesses or small businesses, in accordance with the definitions contained in ASPR Section 1-701.

Almost the first step in the corruption of Pip's values is the unworthy shame he feels when Estella cruelly remarks the coarseness of his hands: `` They had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, as vulgar appendages ''.

The first step toward the goal is the establishment of a new atmosphere of mutual good will and friendly communication on other than the polemical level.

The Soviets understand, moreover, that the first step in turning a country toward Communism is to turn it against the West.

Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.

A petition bearing the signatures of more than 1,700 Johnston taxpayers was presented to the town council last night as what is hoped will be the first step in obtaining a home rule charter for the town.

The Old Man's son threw himself down, belly first, upon a concrete step, taking in the coolness of it, and dreaming of the day he would be rich.

He also introduced cyclic cohomology in the early 1980s as a first step in the study of noncommutative differential geometry.

As a first step, Algerian literature was marked by works whose main concern was the assertion of the Algerian national entity, there is the publication of novels as the Algerian trilogy of Mohammed Dib, or even Nedjma of Kateb Yacine novel which is often regarded as a monumental and major work.

The adult eyes are an improvement on invertebrate eyes and were a first step in the development of more advanced vertebrate eyes.

Early evidence of such practices appears as markings on bones and cave walls, which show that lunar cycles were being noted as early as 25, 000 years ago ; the first step towards recording the Moon ’ s influence upon tides and rivers, and towards organizing a communal calendar.

In 1236 or 1237, aged about 50, he made the surprising step of entering the Franciscan order, thus becoming the first Franciscan to hold a University chair.

The first step is ligating the supplying artery and vein, to prevent hemorrhage ( bleeding ).

Since electricity is an expensive utility, the first step towards conservation is to design a house and lifestyle to reduce demand.

The idea that the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages are closely related to each other was allegedly first published in 1730 by Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, a Swedish officer who traveled in the eastern Russian Empire while a prisoner of war after the Great Northern War.

Rumours of a battle first appeared in the French press as early as 7 August, although credible reports did not arrive until 26 August, and even these claimed that Nelson was dead and Bonaparte a British prisoner.

In the first instance, Will Smith's character sings the song after he and cousin Carlton Banks are thrown into prison ( Smith sings the first two lines, Banks sullenly providing the refrain, then a prisoner sings the final four lines in an operatic voice.

He was captured by German troops in 1940 in Padoux, and he spent nine months as a prisoner of war — in Nancy and finally in Stalag 12D, Trier, where he wrote his first theatrical piece, Barionà, fils du tonnerre, a drama concerning Christmas.

The first hand account of Bernal Díaz del Castillo's True History of the Conquest of New Spain paints a portrait of a noble leader who struggles to maintain order in his kingdom after he is taken prisoner by Hernán Cortés.

Its first prisoner was probably Harry die strandloper in the mid-17th century.

At first the prisoner thinks that he is locked in a tomb, but he discovers that he is in a cell.

The defeat of the latter, who was taken prisoner at Mirebeau on the first of August 1202, seemed to ensure John's success, but he was abandoned by William des Roches, who in 1203 assisted Philip Augustus in subduing the whole of Anjou.

Dobbin appears first as loyal and magnanimous, if unaware of his own worth ; by the end of the story he is presented as a tragic fool, a prisoner of his own sense of duty who knows he is wasting his gifts on Amelia but is unable to live without her.

There was a bruise rule: if a prisoner had been bruised on the face, he would be shot that evening at roll call, or the next morning if the bruise first began to show then.

Putting this into the form of a strategy in a repeated prisoner ’ s dilemma would mean to cooperate unconditionally in the first period and behave cooperatively ( altruistically ) as long as the other agent does as well.

* In 1991, Allan Legere was the first Canadian to be convicted as a result of DNA evidence, for four murders he had committed while an escaped prisoner in 1989.

The future Catherine II recorded, " He was relieved of all his decorations and rank, without a soul being able to reveal for what crimes or transgressions the first gentleman of the Empire was so despoiled, and sent back to his house as a prisoner.

The first political prisoner to be executed was Collenot d ' Angremont of the National Guard, followed soon after by the King's trusted collaborator in his ill-fated attempt to moderate the Revolution, Arnaud de Laporte, both in 1792.

In the 15th century, Johann Schiltberger recorded one of the first European sightings of the horses in the journal of his trip to Mongolia as a prisoner of the Mongol Khan.

He served in the first siege, at the Battle of Tudela, and during the second siege until he was taken prisoner in a sortie.

" The Duke first attempts to arrange the execution of another prisoner whose head can be sent instead of Claudio's.

When World War I broke out, Chevalier was in the middle of his national service, already in the front line, where he was wounded by shrapnel in the back in the first weeks of combat and was taken as a prisoner of war in Germany for two years.

Lester McKenna ( Bruce Weitz ) is the first prisoner scheduled to be executed.

Parallel to this historical and legal narrative, Solzhenitsyn follows the typical course of a zek ( a slang term for inmate, derived from the widely used abbreviation " z / k " for " zakliuchennyi "( prisoner )) through the Gulag, starting with arrest, show trial and initial internment ; transport to the " archipelago "; treatment of prisoners and general living conditions ; slave labor gangs and the technical prison camp system ( where Andrei Sakharov and his team of prisoner-scientists developed the Soviet Union's first hydrogen bomb ); camp rebellions and strikes ( see Kengir uprising ); the practice of internal exile following completion of the original prison sentence ; and ultimate ( but not guaranteed ) release of the prisoner.