Verb
take steps (third-person singular simple present takes steps, present participle taking steps, simple past took steps, past participle taken steps)
To initiate a course of action, often against something that one disapproves of.
If necessary, I will take steps to clarify the situation before the deadline for lodging questions next Monday. Members should be aware that, in general, they should ask only the question that was lodged and which appears in the Business Bulletin. Presiding Officer Alex Fergusson in Scottish Parliament on 19 June 2008.
If there will be a serious Palestinian prime minister who makes a 100 percent effort to end terrorism, then we can have peace. Each side has to take steps. If terror continues, there will not be an independent Palestinian state. Israel will not accept it, if terror continues. Ariel Sharon
As president, I will take steps to ban the box, so former presidents won't have to declare their criminal history at the very start of the hiring process. Hillary Clinton
A Government to perform even a minimum of service to its people, must take steps to suppress avarice, to strike down privately built-up schemes of economic exploitation or oppression, to uproot privilege, and to assure justice and economic opportunity to the masses. Robert H. Jackson
For we did makeup. But we didn't forgive each other. And we didn't take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw that each of us had invested too much in being in the right and we walked away and it was a relief. Alice Munro
In paying homage to the martyrs of Metz Yeghern, we understand that we must take steps forward, come together for the sake of our national dreams and goals. We must build a powerful and democratic State by doing everything possible for the future day of our country and people. Tigran Sargsyan
We see the wisest, most intelligent people take steps in life, that we must shake our head over. Adolf Freiherr Knigge