Sentence examples for the groundwork that from inspiring English sources

BUT as local watchdogs were cracking down on Metropolitan, lawmakers on Capitol Hill were laying the groundwork that would allow the firm to sidestep state regulators.

He did much of the groundwork that set up the landmark visit of Hillary Rodham Clinton to Myanmar in December, the first such visit by a U.S. secretary of state since 1955.

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.

Nonetheless, many education experts say he will have a strong wind at his back in charting a course -- both because of the mayor's support, and because of the groundwork that is already in place.

Hear the Wind Sing (1979) and Pinball, 1973 19800) were his practice novels, his apprenticeship, the groundwork that had to be laid before he could make a true beginning.

Without them, the exciting, entry-level jobs will go straight to the entitled, connected people who have not necessarily done the groundwork that will help them to appreciate the opportunities that lie ahead.

In 1968, he had handled much of the legal groundwork that enabled The Times to go public in January 1969 by selling shares on the American Stock Exchange.

Or must they also furnish the foundations of morality — the ethical groundwork that will allow students to make sense of the world?

And our grantee partners, like Make the Road New York, VOCAL, the Justice Committee, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and Picture the Homeless are doing the critical groundwork that will ultimately end this needless practice.

Judge Walker laid the factual groundwork that might have allowed him to invoke the tough "strict scrutiny" test to Proposition 8 — a test that most laws flunk.

He didn't predict that the BBC would maintain such a dominant position in TV and radio broadcasting - he thought its audience share would become much smaller - but he laid the crucial groundwork that made it possible.