Step up
step up (verb) - increase the intensity of activity
step up operations
step up efforts
step up production
step up sales
step up the campaign
step up training
over the last two weeks stepped up the training
step up security
step enforcement of a law
step up trade sanctions
step up regulation
step up their fight against X
help them step up their fight against Z
step up pressure for Y
step up a search for Y
step up new building
step up their contribution
step up a gear
step up the volume
Example sentences:
* "Children have started reading in droves so the company has stepped up the sales of books for children."
* "The National Academy of Sciences has launched a report recommending that the US government step up its regulations on seafood."
* "We've both been inspired by the TV exercise show to step up our fitness campaign."
* "We then had to scale down our operations, and as a result the problems have come back to haunt us, so we have got to step up our operations again."
* "But it would be a good rumour to spread, step up the pressure all round."
* "France is to step up its science aid to the Third World."
* "In the meantime, we have to step up our efforts to find that missing file."
* "They're urging farmers and horse owners to step up security."
* "This will step up pressure for roundtable talks between party and reformers, along the lines of those held last year all over Eastern Europe."
* "For a number of weeks he was unable to train with his colleagues, but over the last two weeks he has been able to step up his training."
* "While authorities step up their search for regulatory violations, they seem to grow greater day by the day."
* "He also said he had asked Housing for Wales to step up its new building to provide more affordable homes for sale and shared ownership."
* "The Foreign Office said it warmly welcomed and supported the US move to step up its contribution."
* "The army believes the new traning centre will help them step up their fight against terrorism."
* "The uncorroborated announcement coincided with a government decision to extend the current state of emergency within the province and to step up its military campaign against the secessionists."
* "The Organization of American States (OAS), meeting on May 17 in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, agreed to step up trade sanctions in a renewed attempt to persuade the military-backed provisional government to restore constitutional rule."
