What is "stepping-stone"

Usage examples of "stepping-stone".

Earth is prepaying six thousand years of progress in exchange for the ability to use stars for stepping-stones, to be able to make Mars in a minute, Antares and Betelgeuse afternoon stops in a delivery run.

It is merely because a stepping-stone, here and there, is heedlessly left unsupplied in our road to the Differential Calculus, that this latter is not altogether as simple a thing as a sonnet by Mr.

Quichuas and Aimaras could have passed across the wide Atlantic to Europe if there had been no stepping-stone in the shape of Atlantis with its bridge-like ridges connecting the two continents.

Now, with her promotion, she could concentrate more on hard news, which was more compatible with her immediate goal of becoming an evening anchorperson either here in Dallas or in some other major market, which she hoped would be a stepping-stone to a network position or a cable job that provided nationwide exposure.

Kirk Brenshaw and his friends had nerve enough to cross the treacherous stepping-stones that brought them to Beaverwood, but that was only through long practice.

The tutor began to think again of Mother Binning, and, following this, of the stepping-stones at White Farm, and Elspeth and Gilian Barrow balanced above the stream of gold.

The oldest surviving labyrinth formed a stepping-stone path laid into the floor of the nave of Chartres Cathedral.

Some OPD lawyers were zealously committed to defending the poor and oppressed, and for them the job was not a stepping-stone to another career.

But after two more deep runnels had been passed, and a mere thick with water-lilies crossed by a chain of hard tussocks like stepping-stones, the guide seemed to consider the danger gone.

Quesnault, a Liberal, a Deputy, a Public Functionary, Advocate-General, a Conservative, learned, obedient, had attained by making a stepping-stone of each of these attributes, to the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation, where he was known as one of the most severe members.

It is said that the deed, in virtue of which you caused the worthy ecclesiastic's furniture to be carried off, is false, and you are blamed for having made the highest body of the State a stepping-stone to crime.

Shuglin didn’t get through, but his allies used him as a stepping-stone and the barrier was quickly breached.

Only two camerlengos in modern times had been elected pope, so the position was not a stepping-stone to the papacy.

And Curaçao need be no more than a stepping-stone to the great world, which would lie open to you once you were delivered from this bondage.

It becomes reduced to a mere stepping-stone to the future, with no intrinsic value.