I'm delighted that my good friend Craig Phillips was able to take time to be here and lay the groundwork for our speech.
Mr. Bush visited two schools and a community center in Ohio and Missouri to lay the groundwork for his speech next week before a joint session of Congress.
But, despite Mr Hodgman's strong mandate, ripping up the forest deal will not be easy.Mr Abbott laid the groundwork in a speech on March 4th to a gathering of forest-industry grandees in Canberra.
Mr. McCain did not do enough beforehand to lay the groundwork for the speech, they say, nor did he make clear enough that he saw a distinction between the Christian right leaders and rank and file social conservatives.
Their joint appearance laid the groundwork for a speech to the nation by Mr. Obama on Monday night, as the administration tries to answer critics in Congress and elsewhere who say that the president has failed to explain the scope, command structure and objective of the mission.
Sissi attempted to lay the groundwork for his U.N. speech on Friday — and Egypt's ascension to a seat on the Security Council — by pardoning 100 political prisoners, including two Al Jazeera journalists convicted on spectacularly trumped-up charges.
The official pointed to two of Trump's prior speeches as laying the groundwork for the U.N. address.
But his speech also laid the groundwork to suppress the opposition movement with a harder hand, characterizing any further protests as being against the Islamic republic itself.
The new foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, is due to meet the British foreign secretary, William Hague, and the EU foreign policy chief, Lady Ashton, on Monday, to lay the groundwork for Rouhani's general assembly speech the next day.
Instead, he says, Mr Obama's speech is laying the groundwork for Ms Clinton's campaign - one that will address income inequality and the lack of wage growth.
Prof. Stevens will receive a medal in engineering for his research in speech sciences that laid the groundwork for many of today's speech synthesis and recognition technologies.
