More than 60 years have passed since the Messina conference of 1955, where the groundwork for the Treaty of Rome was prepared, but which prime minister Anthony Eden refused to attend.
"There has been a change, but the groundwork had to be prepared and it took a long time," Mr. Even said, recalling years of of public campaigning with other advocates of gay rights, including his partner, Amit Kama, 42, a media-studies professor.
A British diplomat in Tripoli confirmed the presence of a small advance team, saying it was preparing the groundwork to move the office of the British envoy from Benghazi to the capital.
And Mr. Arafat said, although without great enthusiasm, that he was open to a substantive session with Mr. Barak if the groundwork was fully prepared.
"If you want to attack, you have to prepare the groundwork, and you have to be prepared to show the evidence," Clawson said.
The Justice Ministry is preparing the groundwork to end by this summer a 52-year-old legal state of emergency, which has given the Israeli cabinet the power to supersede the legislative process.
Now the business has been established, Line says it is preparing the groundwork to introduce "a new subscription-based music streaming service".
Just as the North Korean authorities are preparing the groundwork for the new leader's personality cult, we unconsciously perform the rites of our own analytical personality cult by focusing on Kim Jong Un's personal predilections.
This groundwork was instrumental in preparing clinicians and administrators at all levels of each home institution (and in the case of CARE, the regional health authority) to ensure that the integrative medicine program would be able to survive and thrive once it was introduced.
The groundwork was laid for a confrontation of unprecedented proportions.
