Sentence examples for groundwork for a final from inspiring English sources

Senators huddled to decide which amendments to debate and which to discard, and to lay the groundwork for a final vote, which could come late on Thursday.

The men pass a motion prohibiting their boss from entering the premise (also, Foley has eyes on his daughter), laying the groundwork for a final act about taking a stand for workers' rights.

He laid the groundwork for a final campaign push on the issue of Social Security by getting Mr. Bush to acknowledge that the $1 trillion program for private investment accounts for young working people would be taken from the Social Security surplus in coming years.

He hoped to prevent a civil war and lay the groundwork for a peaceful, final transfer of power to the Mujahideen.

But a string of five consecutive goals by the Falcons reestablished CV dominance and laid the groundwork for an uneventful final period in which Bulivac scored her second and third goals and the last of the match.

He's supposed to lay the groundwork for the final hand-to-hand slugfest between the villain and the hero.

However, Mr. Kheel, Mr. O'Grady and Vincent D. Mc Donnell, who as chairman of the State Mediation Board was keeping in touch with nine other labor disputes, did lay the groundwork for the final push.

Ibrāhīm soon faced an Afghan rebellion in the east under the leadership of his brother Jalāl Khan, and, while Ibrāhīm put down this and other Afghan revolts in the region, the groundwork for the final disaster was laid in the west.

In embracing Mr. McCain and the malpractice projects, the White House appeared to be seeking to lay the groundwork for an argument that the final bill would be bipartisan not because it garners Republican votes but because it contains Republican ideas.

As Spielberg is known to be one of Barack Obama's substantial donors (as well as a public pal and even prankster) one wonders if the movie's allegory is a swipe at the President or perhaps laying some public awareness groundwork for Obama's final year in office.

The slogan refers to Israeli troop withdrawals from the West Bank under the terms of the interim peace agreement signed in Oslo in 1993, which laid the groundwork for the present final peace talks.