Choose a proper foundation.
The corn experiment was not a great success, and he later wrote that overenthusiastic officials, wanting to please him, had overplanted without laying the proper groundwork, and "as a result corn was discredited as a silage crop — and so was I".
And yet, while they are both relative moderates within the Palestinian world, the delegation's official position is that the summit meeting is being held too soon, without the proper groundwork laid for a full or even partial resolution of outstanding problems.
When you set out to accomplish a goal, do your research first and lay the proper groundwork to succeed.
At the end of the day, establishing a foreign corporation is relatively easy, but laying the proper groundwork and making sure your foreign corporation accomplishes its purpose takes very careful planning and legal advice.
By laying the proper groundwork (equal parts convoluted and convincing), an illusion of the well-monitored night is solidified.
Instead of simply springing the pardon on an unsuspecting country, he argues, Mr. Ford should have carefully laid the proper groundwork first.
The study's findings are also encouraging, he added, because "they suggest that with the proper groundwork we can conduct rigorous trials of complementary or alternative therapies".
It's not that the content of the training programs is necessarily bad; rather, it's that companies are not laying the proper groundwork to get the most out of what is being taught.
They show the great debt that Western musicologists currently owe to Soviet scholars, who in the last 20 years have laid the groundwork for a proper understanding of the cultural background of Russian emigre artists.
