Sentence examples for the groundwork for doing from inspiring English sources

But he wants to lay the groundwork for doing it in his second term.

"He's laying the groundwork for doing something unpopular and wanting to shift the blame for it," said Larry Weitzner, a Republican political consultant.

He kind of laid the groundwork for me doing that so I thought I would do my version of his version of my concept.

But Chief Justice John Roberts's majority opinion laid the groundwork for possibly doing so in the future.

While that iteration of my belief in the power of women did not pan out, it laid the groundwork for what I am doing today.

The Palm Center's research also laid the groundwork for the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

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.

The groundwork for the case was done by a law student, Scott Fleming, who began studying the court records in 1999, after receiving a letter from Wallace, who wrote to any lawyer or activist whose address he could find.

"This lays the groundwork for the company to do a number of things," Iger said, speaking in a post-earnings interview with CNBC.

However, now a dozen years later, I can see how it laid the groundwork for the work I do now, helping to keep homeowners at risk of foreclosure in their homes.

In this landscape, no matter which painful solution polls better in the abstract, a political coalition that's actually laid the groundwork for what it wants to do seems more likely to succeed in doing it.