Sentence examples for considerable groundwork from inspiring English sources

He began making recreational pilgrimages to Tijuana and laid considerable groundwork in his five years on the graveyard shift at a San Diego restaurant.

He did considerable groundwork to smooth out the investigation's methodological kinks, Flurkey says.

In summary, in contrast to more traditional cancer therapies, the development, clinical use and refinement of imatinib and other targeted therapies could not have occurred without the considerable groundwork of biologists from many different disciplines.

United Nations representatives, who will work with the commission to select the delegates, and Hamid Karzai, the leader of the interim government, are devoting considerable attention to laying the groundwork for the council -- even though in Mr. Karzai's case the decision of its delegates could mean his removal from power.

Those who engage with bioethics no doubt draw encouragement from the considerable benefits that Warnock and Kennedy reaped from their early groundwork: both went on to serve on further regulatory commissions, were honoured by the government, and remain respected authorities on the ethics of science and medicine.

Although American alternative artists of the 1980s never generated spectacular album sales, they exerted a considerable influence on later alternative musicians and laid the groundwork for their success.

Bentham's influence has been felt to a considerable extent in the field of economics, in which the felicific calculus provided the groundwork for the development of policy based on cost-benefit analysis.

Laying the groundwork.

Lettuce Groundwork Q.

I think the groundwork is already there.

"Lou laid the groundwork," Mr. Humm said.