"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.
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.
John C. Rother, president of the National Coalition on Health Care, which represents consumers, employers and providers, said, "The supercommittee may have laid the groundwork for future reductions in the growth of Medicare".
