stepped foundation
1.On the world stage, despite mounting interest group pressures and the on-going differences between China and the US, you have courageously stepped forward to lay the foundation for a strategic partnership between the two countries.
2.And Greece joined secondly on January 1, 2000. Euro successed in starting up, which was most tremendous change of the world monetary structure since the Bretton Woods System collapsed, indicated the European Economic Union stepped out the important step toward the monetary unification and laid the important foundation for the establishment of genuine European Union.
