Sentence examples for groundwork for the first from inspiring English sources

This week, it began laying the groundwork for the first increase in short-term interest rates since before the recession.

These three Snark, Navaho, and Matador provided the necessary technical groundwork for the first truly successful strategic cruise missiles, which entered service in the 1980s.

In laying out what he says is "the groundwork for the first successful human head transplant", Dr Canavero admits that his polymer gel reattachment method (known as GEMINI) would not be perfect.

By 1993, not a single Republican would vote for a deficit package drafted by the Clinton administration and Congressional Democrats that laid the groundwork for the first balanced budget since the late 1960s.

Celia W. Dugger (NYT) NORTH KOREA, U.S.: TALKS TODAY American and North Korean negotiators will meet in Berlin today to try to prepare the groundwork for the first high-level visit by North Korean officials to the United States.

Indonesia's police chief said today that many groups had registered to stage protests at Parliament next week when it meets to lay the groundwork for the first post-Suharto-era elections in 1999.

Mr. Trump recently acknowledged that he sent the C.I.A. director, Mike Pompeo, to a secret meeting with Mr. Kim this month to lay the groundwork for the first-ever meeting between the leaders of the United States and North Korea.

That attention laid the groundwork for the second ingredient necessary for the grand expansion of Mr. Glass's career: commissions from the musical establishment, which had ignored him until then.

The talk was held in Boston, and its nebulous-sounding subject ("The Uses of Natural History," a title that conceals its greatness well) helped lay the groundwork for the nineteenth-century philosophy of transcendentalism.

This laid the groundwork for the second phase of his career, in which Abu Nidal seems to have become both a terrorist for the Iraqi Government and, at the same time, a rebel within Mr. Arafat's Al Fatah organization.

Even before the war against Iraq transformed the United States into the dominant power of the Persian Gulf, America was laying the groundwork for the third empire by steadily building up its military commitments in the Middle East.