Russian law bans convicted felons from running for office, so the formal legal groundwork for rejecting Navalny's application had been laid (notwithstanding the E.C.H.R. decision).
In a brief televised message on August 27th Colombia's president, Juan Manuel Santos, confirmed reports that a small team of officials has been talking to leaders of the FARC guerrillas to lay the groundwork for formal peace negotiations.
Hence the upcoming move by the FCC, which will also lay the groundwork for a formal licensing process for the dedicated spectrum and for enshrining in law a guarantee that the airwaves will be safe for rocketeers to use.As chairman of the FCC, Mr Genachowski has multiple responsibilities, including encouraging broadband deployment and policing mergers.
It came closer to telling stories in pictures rather than merely illustrating the text, than any American magazine had before, and in its more formal and elegant way it laid the groundwork for Life.
By presenting a rich trove of consistency and independence demonstrations, Hilbert displays here the power of the "formal" approach to axioms, and lays the groundwork for what soon becomes our own contemporary model-theoretic approach to formal systems.
The process went so quickly that the municipal council had not made a formal decision to build the airport before the groundwork was completed.
And while it is far too early for formal endorsements, they are working feverishly to lay the groundwork.
Members had been meeting steadily since early January to lay the groundwork for the meeting today, the first formal session of the organization's governing body, called the General Council.
Harris's spokeswoman said officials in Dublin had "already begun laying the groundwork" and in September will seek a formal inter-departmental working group to flesh out Ireland's bid.
Instead, let's take advantage of the groundwork we've laid to state our formal definition of quantitative confirmation.
