The Democratic majority ineffectively blustered for nearly two years about plans to question Rove but failed to lay a groundwork with preliminary witnesses such as the Republicans that Simpson named.
Before the financier John Jacob Astor died in 1848, he worked with the book collector and librarian Joseph Green Cogswell to lay the groundwork, with a gift of $400,000, for a great public library.
Having laid the groundwork with a series of acquisitions and new ventures the last two years, Mr. Monty has made "convergence" -- the confluence of communications technology and entertainment media -- a central plank of BCE's strategy.
As StartOut launches its new, major scale-up effort, it is laying the groundwork with a major investment in technology to help entrepreneurs find matches with other entrepreneurs, mentors, and professionals they'd benefit from talking to.
That process finally bore fruit last June, after Mano Menezes' groundwork with a young team had been hewn into shape by the battle-hardened Luiz Felipe Scolari, and Brazil harnessed the energy of the often violent street protests that raged outside the stadiums to sweep Italy, Uruguay and Spain aside on their way to the Confederations Cup title.
Within months of the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, the Office of National Drug Control Policy began laying the groundwork with a series of ads (featured most prominently during the 2002 Super Bowl) tying recreational drug use to support for terrorism.
So now he continues to go around the city in a moderately paced campaign, shaking hands at subway stops and outlining his positions at forums, hoping to lay a groundwork for September with a sort of slow-but-steady-wins-the-race strategy.
After pleading guilty in September and pledging to cooperate, Manafort then began leaking information about the Mueller investigation to the president's lawyers, in what former prosecutors and defense attorneys have called an apparent attempt to lay the groundwork with Trump for a presidential pardon.
After doing a lot of groundwork with Defense Dept.
The North Koreans appointed a former ambassador to Spain, Kim Hyok-chol, to lay the groundwork with Mr. Biegun, 55, a pragmatic former senior aide to Condoleezza Rice in the Bush administration who had been passed over for the national security adviser position in favor of Mr. Bolton.
President Obama moved Friday toward a faster reduction of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and laid the groundwork with Afghan President Hamid Karzai for a small troop presence in the country after the American mission formally ends there in 2014.
