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Example sentences for: stepped

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' " Next, heroic outrage: He stepped forward when he could no longer watch the debate be "engulfed by spins and half-truths."
Among other legends surrounding the statue is a very modern one: During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, when Red Guards were running rampant on Wanchai island, just a swim away, the image of St. James is said to have stepped down from the altar and halted an invasion.
The same is true of other sectors: generation of energy (where we've stepped back from nuclear power), and even, with the exception of computer-guided bombs and the like, weaponry.
(This was shortly after the French Army in Algeria had been preparing to send in the paras to overthrow the government of Guy Mollet, until de Gaulle stepped in to assert authority.)
Smaller firms also stepped up their efforts.