| Taking a step back, Joel felt a cold fear clutch at his chest as he forced himself to breathe. |
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| Grace took a step back from the ornate gilt mirror and turned around slowly so that she might examine her appearance from every angle. |
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| I heard Rhett flare his nostrils and I took a half step back just in case he had a wand hidden in his pants. |
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| I think that it is important to step back and see it from a different point of view when you are considering what to do. |
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| It would seem to be a step back towards the bad old days when EMC cornered the storage market with its expensive boxes. |
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| Rail buffs could take a step back in time to Swindon's golden rail era age and get spliced on the footplate of a vintage locomotive at Steam. |
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| If negative thoughts start creeping in at the last second, step back, take a deep breath and laugh at yourself. |
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| They'll crowd so close to the wagon that sometimes you've got to ask them to step back. |
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| He patted the man roughly on the cheek and took a step back, directing his next comment to the guards. |
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| However, when you step back a bit and look at the obvious direction that things are going, it does indeed strike a discordant note. |
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| He is hinting that he will step back from executive duties and allow other managers to run the show. |
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| I took a quick step back before walking forward, lifting my leg, and kicking the door open. |
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| While the restyle of the saddle is a small step back for style, it is a noticeable improvement of performance. |
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| His eyes flashed with anger for a moment, making Gwen step back unconsciously. |
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| He sighed and took a step back from her, adopting a nonchalant stance as best he could. |
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| And the lovely town of Great Malvern itself provides a step back in time to a more genteel era. |
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| The detective took a step back, sighing, rubbing his weary eyes with his hand. |
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| Without thinking, Shelley squeezed the gun's trigger and took a step back to compensate for the surprise amount of recoil. |
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| If we take a step back, we can see that only government could have brought us to this lamentable condition. |
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| Michaela almost took a step back in retreat but she checked herself and lifted her chin. |
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| Melissa and Dave climb a small rise and step back onto the rutted dirt road. |
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| After taking a step back from him, she noticed the puzzled look crossing his face. |
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| Sometimes, you just have to step back and admire the sheer audacity of these guys. |
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| Some stories are much too good to be true, tales so full of emotion and pathos that they compel a journalist to step back and reconsider. |
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| There was such malice in her voice that Cat involuntarily took a step back. |
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| But here I have the ability to take a step back and see the green leaves as mammoth trees. |
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| Taking a step back for a moment, a vertically integrated business sees itself quite differently to a functional or divisionalized organization. |
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| He was staring at Cael, a smile touching his lips, as the latter took a step back, away from him. |
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| That was six months now and it's time to step back and say now wait a minute, what do these decisions mean? |
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| The pirate took a small step back, shrinking into himself as if he wanted nothing more than to disappear. |
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| If your child wants you to stay, but you do not want to watch the procedure, step back, but stay within your child's sight. |
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| A visit lets you step back in time to an era which saw this city torn in two and families divided. |
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| Taking a step back from traditional ideas of silver service, they've favoured offering faultless food and service with an edge. |
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| But she watched her mother blink in surprise and take an involuntary step back away from her. |
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| This is displayed in their ability to play slow, blissful songs and step back from the full onslaught of their upbeat material. |
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| At that instant he took a step back and threw her with a simple circular motion of his arm, and a twist of his hip. |
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| The man proceeded to step back on to the carpet and blow heavy clouds of cigar smoke on to staff trying to serve other customers. |
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| Expect the Sonics and Clippers to take a step back amid murderous January schedules. |
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| Once you step back and ask these questions, it's wise to have a sounding board to bounce ideas off of. |
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| Powerful wings spread a span of twenty feet and Jack had to step back to avoid being hit. |
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| Sometimes you step back from your routines of daily life and think about your life as a whole. |
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| The content industry needs to take a step back and see the bigger picture to find a new business model. |
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| Typical of its period is the way the upper parts of the walls step back above the buttresses before reaching a straight parapet. |
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| And although it's a star-studded cast, the actors seem content to step back and make the characters take over. |
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| I am so preoccupied with my obsessions that I am not capable of seeing one step back or one step ahead. |
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| Think about how difficult it is for some couples to step back from passion to consider contraception. |
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| Not once did he step back to draw together various pieces and put them into a single theory. |
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| To do this as a nation, we have to step back and view the situation in its totality. |
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| Maybe if you step back from the situation and see it from a rational point of view you might see that things are not as bad as they seem. |
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| We are uncomfortable with slow things because we have to step back and consider them. |
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| They took a step back from hardcore and progressed in a more experimental, crafted kind of way. |
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| You step back and Michael reaches out, catching the hem of your t-shirt in his hand. |
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| I'd like to step back and put this question in the context of the structural relations of print as a cultural technology. |
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| The US overreached itself on this occasion and was forced to take a step back. |
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| To an extent, I'm working blind, and have to step back several paces to check I've got everything that ought to be got. |
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| It would be a huge step back to the past and anyone who thinks otherwise is living in cloud cuckoo land. |
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| Taking a step back, he felt a cold fear clutch at his chest as he forced himself to breathe. |
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| Now that I have covered his central arguments as fallacious, I would like to step back and look at the work as a whole. |
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| Our reflective capacities allow us and require us to step back from our mere impulses in order to determine when and whether to act on them. |
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| By the end of the decade the firm offered 32 patterns in a total of 125 colorways and Morris began to step back. |
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| Instead of writing off incommunicative guys as jerks, step back and realize guys are people, too. |
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| When surrounded by competing demands you need to step back and say, what are my business priorities? |
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| These sponsors also know when to step back and let the new club find its own way. |
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| He took a step back, overtaken for a moment by her loveliness. |
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| And then you go beyond the giddiness and step back and try and look at things and see, do they all add up, does it all work? |
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| With Edinburgh playing host to a cornucopia of festivals over the coming month, it can be difficult to step back and take each individual programme on its own merit. |
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| But in New York this week, bosh said he had to take a step back from basketball and simply take in his surroundings. |
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| We need to take a step back from the day to day routine and engage in a constructive debate about our future and what form it might desirably take. |
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| Again, there was a big step forward in ingenuity and, again, there was a big step back in guts. |
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| This great site invites you to take a step back into the past where you can relive classic hairstyles such as the bouffant, the flip, the pixie and the pageboy. |
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| We cannot step back and believe that a less confrontational posture will lead to peace with intractable adversaries. |
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| Visitors will be able to see many of the Royal Navy's most modern warships and step back in time in the heritage area where the great ages of seafaring from Tudor to Georgian. |
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| Let me step back from the events of last week and look back over the last two years. |
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| After everything we've tried to do over the years, we have to step back and admit that maybe we're not doing the right things. |
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| In all such cases, we are required to step back to a previous stage and go through the decisionmaking process again. |
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| The execution may have been a step back from the July performance, but the interpretation was notably different more individualistic and worked-out. |
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| It is important to take a step back from what you are living and reflect on it. |
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| The long view, a step back, space to unknot our emotions — all are necessary for art. |
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| So step back, relax and breathe, it will work wonders to keep your frazzled mind feel more centered. |
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| Startled, I released a sharp yelp and quickly took a step back. |
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| Copenhagen is the precipice, either we step back and let live or tip over into the abyss. |
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| But in our everyday work it's sometimes hard to take that step back and collaborate. |
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| Still debating whether to call B. It would be such a step back if I do. |
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| Here, it is our intention to take a step back from the madding crowd and see how we could achieve this balance. |
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| Even as I was digging into my pocked to get out my revolver I made a running step back. |
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| He said that a timorous decision from the Committee in this matter would be a step back from the 21st to the 19th century. |
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| We need to step back and realize that the whole idea of acknowledging refugees is based on their individual claims. |
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| Recently, Security Police attempted to beat up Thich Khong Tanh, but local Buddhists intervened and forced the Police to step back. |
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| The wind forced the players to step back several times from the service line and dodge paper and plastic debris blowing onto the court from the stands. |
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| Now is the time for each of us, on both sides of the pond, to take a step back and allow things to calm down. |
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| The people who live near those yards decided to step back and try to reach an amicable agreement. |
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| Mr. Rodger Cuzner: I'll ask three quick questions and then I'll step back and let you guys answer. |
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| Using the red arrow, you are able to go one step back in the menu, or by clicking on it longer, return to the main menu straight away. |
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| Before we begin, perhaps we should take a step back and determine who exactly qualifies for these tax incentives. |
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| Some courts have appeared to step back from an expansive view of the meaning of Meiorin and Grismer. |
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| A characteristic of peak performers in agribusiness is being able to step back and objectively assess their business and themselves. |
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| He can allow the mother to breathe from time to time, to step back from it all. |
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| Let's step back for a minute, away from the heat, and look at the light. |
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| Her father shouted, loud enough to make Melanie shudder and step back. |
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| Her smile suddenly vanished from her face and she took a step back. |
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| Press the rewind key in the pause mode to step back one field at a time. |
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| We learn to 'feel' a situation and know when it is right to offer guidance and support, when to change tack, when to step back and when to be silent. |
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| It is in that regard that we should step back and ensure that the spirit in which the Organization has worked in the past to produce many documents through international cooperation prevails. |
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| In its next report, the Commission will closely monitor the effect of this amendment and assess whether it is a step back in the protection against serious crime, including fraud and high-level corruption. |
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| Take step back in time at Edwardian tea dance PEOPLE can quickstep back in time at a special Edwardian tea dance later this month. |
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| As they prattle on, you step back mentally and start to catalog the irritating timbre of the offending voice, the reliance on cliché, the almost comic repetitiousness — in short, you begin constructing a story. |
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| Now, I can step back and watch my brain react, but I don't feed the fire. |
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| I also found out that it is sometimes good to step back from a situation, to 'go for' our intention, to feel our roots, our concentration, to decide to take action and take responsibility for it. |
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| But we mustn't take a step back in the work of the group. |
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| To really understand the popularity of postcards, we must take a step back from modern society and its bombardment of advertising, film and television images. |
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| The amendment of article 76 of the Constitution and acceptance of multiple candidates for the Presidential elections marked the first step back of the authorities. |
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| Two comrades will move forward at a time, place the Poppy or Maple Leaf, step back one pace, bow, turn left or right and march to the rear of the group. |
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| The advent of a second organic food basket network across Quebec would be a step back for the emerging sector, members and supporters of the original network say. |
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| It may be helpful to take a step back to find the improvements and additional benefits the ERP system was supposed to provide, but that have not been observed to date. |
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| And Lenny, 41, plans to step back into the public spotlight at a one-off gig with his group Poor White Trash And The Little Big Horns. |
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| This is truly the time to step back and take stock. |
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| The LIDU and the EAHR therefore request that the Italian government take a step back from these measures taken in the heat of the moment and under emotional strain, from the slippery slope to collective denunciation. |
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| Before I go into detail about particular Canadian measures and experiences with inflation, let me take a step back to look at the larger, international picture. |
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| The alleyway's narrowness does not permit one to step back and appreciate the sheer volume of the place, which, to all appearances, is dominated by the dome over the reception. |
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| Bruno's legs buckled, and he took a big step back, inadvertently stepping off the ring apron. |
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| This indexing encourages cows to step back over the elevated gutter and back against the butt-pan, positioning each udder close to the operator for easy claw attachment. |
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| Perhaps we should step back for a second and think about solving this problem a different way. |
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| Now that the gardens have been put to sleep for the season, we have some time to step back and take stock of everything that we achieved this year. |
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| While everyone else went berserk, The Daily Show was able to take a step back and wonder whether it was right that an organisation such as CNN was filling up airtime with talk of black holes and Bermuda triangles. |
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| I think you need to step back and look at some of these premiums and a portion of some of your acres might be well placed into some of those alternatives. |
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| One step forward, one step back and one shuffle sidewards with a goalless draw against Burnley. |
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| More broadly, we think it is a particularly opportune time to step back and reflect on how we have been able to deal with this deep financial crisis and this severe bear market. |
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| She put the bucket down and took a step back, kicking it over. |
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| In recent weeks the federal government has handed out hundreds of billions in bailouts and guarantees, and it is time to take a step back and see if they have any effect. |
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| As a therapist sometimes you have to step back from your clients' lives. |
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| Producer Dave Sardy took over the lead producing role from Noel, who decided to step back from these duties after a decade of producing leadership over the band. |
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| Historiographically speaking, it is certainly worthwhile to step back periodically and examine how immutable those seemingly immutable Cold War realities really were. |
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| Smith made attempts to step back from nationalism and view it critically. |
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