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take steps



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Idioms and Phrases

Begin a course of action, as in The town is taking steps to provide better street lights , or They took steps to keep their plans secret . [Early 1600s]
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Bonta said he is preparing “to take steps” to ask a court to place the Probation Department in receivership, essentially wrestling away control of the agency from the leaders who have failed to implement reforms.

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Kellogg have said they will take steps to remove artificial dyes from their products.

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“It’s to terminate the Head Start program. We are seeing them already take steps to do that.”

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A government source said they would take steps to "minimise the possibility of success" for any legal efforts to block the expansion.

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The Trump administration continues to take steps that experts say will worsen pollution and other environmental issues, including loosening 31 key rules and regulations that govern air and water quality standards, electric vehicle initiatives and curbing planet-warming fossil fuels.

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