It's not, she says, that she is treating patients with allergies; rather, she is focusing on things at the "groundwork" stage.
While this administration has demonstrated a willingness, indeed eagerness, to break with the past, it should look seriously at the groundwork already laid, as a starting point if nothing else.
"The physical," he refers to at one point, as "the groundwork" of the political, moral, and religious.
Lakhdar Brahimi, the joint special envoy on Syria for the United Nations and the Arab League, expressed worries about the violence in Sidon on Tuesday at a meeting in Geneva aimed at laying the groundwork for a peace conference on Syria.
Fiscal initiatives should be directed at laying the groundwork for future growth, especially by upgrading the nation's antiquated highways, bridges and ports.
Koh Yu-hwan, a North Korea expert at the same university, said the North's proposal appears to be aimed at setting the groundwork for blaming South Korea for tensions between the countries in the future.
Coming before a rare meeting of the North Korean Workers' party in Pyongyang, analysts said the visit might be aimed at laying the groundwork for a transfer of power to his third son, Kim Jong-un.
MOSCOW — Russian officials complained on Monday that the United States routinely disregards extradition requests by the Russian government, the latest in a series of public statements that seem aimed at laying the groundwork for granting asylum to Edward J. Snowden, the former intelligence contractor on the run from the American authorities.
Disney is known for planning and spending many millions of dollars on Broadway musicals, like its current hits "The Lion King" and "Mary Poppins," and on major advertising campaigns aimed at laying the groundwork for long runs in New York and future national and international tours.
Speaking in Downing Street after a meeting with David Cameron, aimed at laying the groundwork for a G7 summit in Japan later this month, Shinzo Abe said more than a thousand companies from his nation invest in Britain — and they do so because it is the gateway to the EU.
Mr. McCall has said he will not make a formal announcement of his plans until after the November elections, but he has made an unusually early start at laying the groundwork for a run for governor and lining up the support of a large number of elected officials, and his aides say he is clearly running.
