step by step

“In boxing you learn step by step, and he is missing several,” Chávez Jr. said.

"For me, one of the experiences of these last few days was to learn a bit of patience, to just take this step by step," he said.

“He knows how to walk a deal through step by step to make sure that everything is complete and buttoned up,” Buss said, “and that’s exactly what happened.”

“My absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve independence from the USA,” Germany's chancellor-in-waiting said.

Merz said after his German election victory that his "absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve independence from the USA".