"It lays the groundwork for future rescue packages".
Deprived childhoods lay the groundwork for future social ills.
Parental discord, for example, can set the groundwork for future relationship problems.
He could hardly guess he was laying groundwork for future paintings.
Far from laying the groundwork for future cooperation, it sentences the country to another few years of budget trench warfare.
According to one person familiar with the discussions, Giambi's agent laid the groundwork for future talks with the Yankees.
"We are establishing the groundwork for future growth," said the company's chief executive and president, David F. Dyer.
To the contrary, the farce, the deceit, is damaging and is laying the dangerous groundwork for future instability and impunity".
The bailouts of big banks, Detroit automakers and others, like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, have, to some, laid the groundwork for future bailouts.
The question was whether the Administration expected the Iranians to agree, or was laying the diplomatic groundwork for future military action.
Some analysts said he should defend the health care law and the Dodd-Frank financial regulations, but in the context of laying the groundwork for future growth.
