Sentence examples for groundwork for action from inspiring English sources

Consistent with their communication strategy, Chairman Bernanke began to lay the groundwork for action during his August address at the Fed conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Britain's latest move seemed to be designed to lay the diplomatic groundwork for action by a coalition of outside forces, led by the United States, if there was no consensus at the United Nations.

People who succeed in their courageous acts, or suffer fewer negative consequences, tend to exhibit certain behaviors: They lay the groundwork for action; they carefully choose their battles; they manage messaging and emotions; and they follow up afterward.

"This was a big diplomatic step forward in laying the groundwork for actions the president might choose, and required days of aggressive diplomacy to avoid delay," a senior administration official said Tuesday night.

Those clauses lay the groundwork for legal action if something goes wrong.

The administration's focus on Iran has raised alarms among the war's staunchest critics, who accuse the White House of overstating the threat and laying the groundwork for military action against Iran.

The proposal to be considered at the conference later this month will call on the government to fully fund any pay rise and lays the groundwork for industrial action through canvassing members.

The United States should be prepared to make firm commitments in all these areas now in return for Israel's agreement to postpone any attack until next year — a delay that could be used to exhaust diplomatic options and lay the groundwork for military action if diplomacy failed.

Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, who represents parts of the Upper West Side and has been working with tenant groups in Manhattan, said she and other members of the Assembly Housing Committee were "laying the groundwork" for possible action, drafting bills that had little chance of immediate passage in the Senate but that could eventually strengthen tenants' rights.

"You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race," President Lyndon B. Johnson said in a 1965 speech that laid the groundwork for affirmative action, "and then say, 'You are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe that you have been completely fair".

Barring that, China may be laying the groundwork for legal action.