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- v. idiomatic To make future development easier.
Examples
“Three days after the night out at Ford’s Theater, Foreign Minister Ito of Japan was brought into the Oval Office for a brief meeting to pave the way for a formal state visit later in the spring of Japanese Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki.”
“It was true that the Luftwaffe was suffering stag - gering losses; yet it seemed that the day must come when the opposition would be overwhelmed, when the great Nazi bombing and fighter fleets which were to pave the way for the invasion would no longer be met by those vicious little craft that kept plunging into their formations, shooting them down or panicking the "brave" Nazi bombers to the point where they were jettisoning their bombs long before target and turning tail.”
“The popes have often employed the Minorites as legates and nuncios, e.g. to pave the way for and carry through the reunion of the greeks, Tatars,”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“She would have had me immediately accompany her to the Hot-Wells; but I entreated her to spare me the distress of so abrupt an introduction, and to pave the way for my reception.”
Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
“The Hoover Dam, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the interstate highway system, the Internet, the Human Genome Project-time and again, government investment has helped pave the way for an explosion of private economic activity.”
“She charged me, very peremptorily, neither wholly to discourage, nor yet to accept Mr. Branghton's offer, till she saw what could be done for me: the young man, she added, had often intended to speak to me himself, but, not well knowing how to introduce the subject, he had desired her to pave the way for him.”
Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
“The Calusa or Carlos Indians, with whom Menendez in 1566 endeavoured to establish friendship and alliance, in order to pave the way to their conversion, showed a persistent spirit of hostility to”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“The Interim Authority, established by a UN conference hosted by the Government of Germany earlier this month, will pave the way for political transition in Afghanistan to an elected government.”
“She begins her career by being involved in all the worldly accidents of a parent; she continues it by being associated in all that may environ a husband: and the difficulties arising from this doubly appendant state, are augmented by the next to impossibility, that the first dependance should pave the way for the ultimate.”
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