Sentence examples for in the groundwork from inspiring English sources

Nick Allott, managing director of Cameron Mackintosh Ltd, spent 10 years putting in the groundwork for British musical theatre in China.

The key is in the groundwork, and in the lie's visibility to third parties.

This was strikingly so in his involvement in East Timor, and also, of course, in the groundwork that led to the trial of the Libyans for the bombing of the Pan Am 747 over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988.

If there is a rationale behind Livingstone's comments it can be found, perhaps, in Immanuel Kant's claim in the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals that the only thing that is uniquely good is a good will.

A harsh judgment, but Ferguson had put in the groundwork to back it up, and Welles, after the first flush of his apotheosis, might have reached the same conclusion: "The Magnificent Ambersons," even in its unfinished state, is a clear and admirable attempt by the boy genius to get a grip on the technical heritage he had thought to supersede.

Behlendorf adopted the code and put in the groundwork for a hierarchy-free meritocracy.

Second, there are, deeper theoretical claims and arguments of Kant's in both the Groundwork and in the second Critique that appear to be incompatible with any sort of teleological form of ethics.

How many people say they want to work in fashion but have no interest in doing the groundwork?

They point out that while based in Mexico City, he played a critical role in laying the groundwork for the North American Free Trade Agreement.

In the artists' group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), Wassily Kandinsky was foremost in laying the groundwork for a new evaluation of the nonrepresentational line.

So just in case, the groundwork is being laid.