keep step

Example Sentences

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While shares in top energy companies have risen since mid-2017, they have failed to keep step with recovering crude markets, opening up a historically unusual performance gap.

From Reuters • Jan. 5, 2018

Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present, and keep the promise to posterity.

From Forbes • Dec. 30, 2014

Indeed its gestures left such slight traces that my sense was of a music whose inner dance playfully resisted the ungainly attempts of my ears to keep step.

From The Guardian • Mar. 11, 2013

Within the United States, government regulation has also failed to keep step with new technologies that allow scientists to alter viruses and even synthesize new ones.

From Washington Post

"Glory," he whispered, "here am I running away from the fear of havin' to keep step with one person; what if I had been made to keep step with so many?"

From The Loves of Ambrose by Vandercook, Margaret