It was a fateful step, but not one that turned out the way the protesters expected.

Aragorn now takes a fateful step, for the first time going against Gandalf's advice.

Such a "fateful step," they wrote, would raise "serious legal, perhaps even constitutional, issues."

Now that Dunbee had a chance to talk about his fateful step, he was at a loss for words to discuss it.

The kid holding the knife took a fateful step forward, evidently not about to take Trip at his word.

This will be a fateful step, and one that could, in our view, raise serious legal, perhaps even constitutional issues.

Then, out of the blue, came the next fateful step.

Therefore it must have been something else which caused him to take that most fateful step.

With the inauguration still to come, he had taken one of the most fateful steps of his presidency.

Tymoshenko, meanwhile, would at the end of 1999 take what was for her and Ukraine a fateful step.