The two sides agreed only to take steps to encourage companies in both countries to change their business practices.

The federal government can also undertake steps to encourage personal saving.

We should also take steps to encourage choice within the public school system.

For this reason, it may be prudent for user communities or governments to take steps to encourage interoperability in various situations.

Some steps, such as letting investors deduct their losses from their taxes, might actually encourage more selling of stocks.

He warns that any steps toward decriminalizing would only encourage the young to indulge.

"I sincerely hope the steps we are taking will encourage other countries to do the same."

The report recommends steps to encourage industrial investment.

And he offers constructive steps to encourage voter participation, the most interesting of which is to shorten the presidential nomination process.

Such steps would truly encourage new investment and also focus their benefits on the small and medium-size businesses hit hardest by the economy today.