Sentence examples for true groundwork from inspiring English sources

Was our present government so enamored of its own perceptions and sense of mission, so intoxicated with our remarkable military prowess, that it did not try seriously enough to learn what the situation in Iraq really was and what it would take to help that country lay a true groundwork for peace?

I hold on to a hope that Egyptians have learned a lesson from the past two and a half years, that they will ensure that this new "transitional period" will be a time for laying the groundwork for true democracy.

But it is a tried and true method of laying the groundwork for another war -- a war that would be a disaster for the Middle East, for the United States and for the world.

It's easy to imagine how Mr. McCain could be laying the groundwork to run as a true fiscal conservative, now that he has locked up the Republican nomination.

(Make that doubly true for Wilson, whose progressive politics laid the groundwork for what a modern-day Democrat like DiCaprio embraces).

They also accused Democrats of negotiating the budget piecemeal to hide the true cost of their budget priorities and lay the groundwork to claim that only new borrowing or higher income taxes could bring the budget into balance.

It is indeed the women who came before us who fought for our freedom and laid the groundwork that enables us to honor the truest expression of ourselves today.

Gaga's huge voice adds a self-protective veneer, as does the presence of the other musicians, but at least she's done the groundwork for future albums that might show her with true transparency.

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.

(This seems like the groundwork for a horror story, I know, but it is a true tale of terror from my own childhood).

Boundary-pushing newer material is salted in, but tried and true hits, the sort of stuff that's guaranteed to make you feel ecstatic, forms the groundwork.