Words similar to stepped

Example sentences for: stepped

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Templer stepped up self-government, increased Chinese access to full citizenship and admitted them for the first time to the Malayan Civil Service.
Judge [Starr], I'm wondering what you think about the famous moment on the South Lawn of the White House on the day of the impeachment when Vice President Gore stepped to the lectern and said that history would remember President Clinton, in his view, as one of the greatest presidents we've ever had.
His successor, General Gerald Temple, stepped in to deal with the “Emergency. ”
It's the research community that is making PLoS work, as demonstrated most emphatically by the editors-in-chief and editorial board members who have stepped up to launch the first three PLoS community journals.
Yet the first commercial smoker to get hauled into court is the first one to have stepped into a pool hall, to have shrugged off respectability.