The string of recent cases, banks fear, could lay the groundwork for years of costly litigation.
It seems clear that Addington was able to promote vast executive powers after September 11th in part because he and Cheney had been laying the political groundwork for years.
B.A.M. had begun to lay the groundwork two years earlier, in 2008, when it offered to inject $1 billion into General Growth when it was first showing signs of debt trouble.
The F.B.I. has been quietly laying the groundwork for years for a push to require Internet-based communications services -- like Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, BlackBerry and Skype -- to design their systems with a built-in way to comply with wiretap orders.
But mainly the show offers an unencumbered view of Kandinsky's painting career and a style that he adjusted with every change of setting, tending toward Constructivism in Moscow, toward Klee at the Bauhaus and toward a Surrealist-tinged biomorphism — for which he had laid the groundwork 20 years earlier — in Paris.
"And with new tools like EditorVR and Timeline, we continue to focus on solving hard problems for creators today, enabling success, and laying the groundwork for years to come".
These studies have certainly laid down groundwork for years to decades of future investigations, and have already provided interesting insights on the logic of information processing principles through these intriguing structures.
The groundwork is laid years in advance, with a pipeline of scouts who start with so little experience they are not allowed to evaluate players.
"We've been laying the groundwork for 30 years," said Christopher J. Paladino, the president of a nonprofit corporation called Devco, founded in the mid-'70s to initiate redevelopment projects in what was then a desolate commercial district flanking the Rutgers University campus.
Other California leaders rushed to join Rendon and De León in setting up the state as a liberal counterweight to Trump, laying the groundwork for four years of battles with Washington.
