Groundwork

Yes, it needs a bit of time to work out the kinks but I think the groundwork is there for an interesting show that is completely different from Grey's. ❋ Unknown (2007)

No doubt that groundwork is being laid for this year and, God forbid, in the event of an Obama re-election. spainishirish ❋ Unknown (2010)

Although some questions have yet to be answered, enough groundwork is laid out to postpone any frustration that comes with not knowing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In a sense, this involves laying a certain groundwork that helps him deal with a variety of difficulties when they arise. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The bilateral meeting between the leaders took place at a summit in Chile where the groundwork is being laid for next week's crunch G20 meeting in London. ❋ Not A Sheep (2009)

But maybe, let's turn a glance at our own American history with a renewed respect for those marvelous losers, Teddy Roosevelt, Gene Debs, William Jennings Bryan and Upton Sinclair, whose failed campaigns lay long-term groundwork for progressive victories. ❋ Clancy Sigal (2010)

•Outlook: The groundwork is in place for a playoff team. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This does not mean that genuine fascism has arrived as a real political force in America; but it does mean the groundwork is being created for just such a nightmare, by irresponsible politicians tapping into terrible forces beyond their ability to control. ❋ Unknown (2005)

With the help of several fellow researchers and friends, from further materials supplied by the former POWs and their families, and from travels and further study this past year, the groundwork is pretty well complete. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The retarding influence, which in former times was continuously exercised not only by incorrect opinions that had become firmly established but also by insufficient experimental groundwork, is plainly observable, and this explains the fact that during the seventeenth century the solution of the problem was not, and could not, be arrived at by such scientists as Boyle, Mayow, and Hales; it was only obtained ❋ Unknown (1967)

The groundwork is usually made up of mosses of three or four varieties and shades, all very beautiful, and blended with these are the silvery leaves of the pearly everlastings. ❋ Unknown (1887)

But it provided a coherent theory of the case: Obama-ism was about laying the long-term groundwork for the economy of the future. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It didn't always make sense, but you could tell that the writers were sincere about laying the longterm groundwork, or at least successful in retroactively paying off random moments from the earlier films. ❋ Scott Mendelson (2010)

By the time my ears adjusted to the uneven sound production, I'd felt shut out for quite a bit of the plot's groundwork, which is a shame, because Taichman has a proven knack for framing difficult plays in tantalizing ways. ❋ Peter Marks (2011)

The groundwork was a study of the four foundational problems in axiomatic formulations of pure logic. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But though the embroidery of his conversation was different, the groundwork was the same, and the high-flown and ornate compliments with which the gallant knight of the sixteenth century inter-larded his conversation, were as much the offspring of egotism and self-conceit, as the jargon of the coxcombs of our own days. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And it's important to understand the groundwork, which is that the stock market is a forward indicator. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Church, with its ideals, and what may be termed the groundwork of its organization, determined. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)