Sentence examples for groundwork for a second from inspiring English sources

The work laid the groundwork for a second Nobel Prize.

Sanders has spent the last year laying the groundwork for a second run.

She was the perfect companion as Mr. McGreevey assiduously laid the groundwork for a second campaign for governor.

For a show that has steadily improved from a very good start, Sunday's finale took a bold, unexpected step to lay the groundwork for a second season.

If they thought this likely — as they should have — they should have laid the legislative groundwork for a second round, through reconciliation if necessary, right at the start.

Administration officials expressed surprise that Afghan authorities were laying the groundwork for a second round of voting, even before the investigation of the first round had been finished.

Today, Development Minister Dawa Tsering is winding up a second five‐year plan and lay ing the groundwork for a third that will start next year.

One Western diplomat said that his removal reflected an effort by Mr. M'Bow to lay the groundwork for a third term as director general of the organization.

Since he dismissed his Cabinet last week, there has been speculation that Mr. Yeltsin was laying the groundwork for a third term by ridding the Government of his heir apparent: Prime Minister Viktor S. Chernomyrdin.

Not much is going to get passed in the next two years anyway, but the president could lay the groundwork for a whopping second-term agenda: tax simplification, entitlement reform, a new wave of regional innovation clusters, a new wave of marriage-friendly tax policies.

Apparently laying the groundwork for a campaign for a third term, the governor, in his hourlong address, promoted a laundry list of proposals, including the use of public money to promote high-tech industries, cuts in property taxes for farmers and the elderly, and a revamping of the Rockefeller drug laws.