ground-work

It was an easy transition for the adults because ground-work had been laid from the beginning around food -- limited sugar, packaged foods, lots of fruits and veggies, were already part of his daily routine.

Jennifer Edwards: To all who Wish to Cut Funding to PBS, NPR and the NEA: Please Consider Your Children Jennifer Edwards 2011

Fernando Henrique Cardoso, then finance minister and one of the plan's promoters, went on to rule Brazil from 1995 to 2002 and is widely credited with laying the ground-work for his country's renaissance.

Lula hails Brazil's oil-fuelled '30-year boom' Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro 2010

It was an easy transition for the adults because ground-work had been laid from the beginning around food -- limited sugar, packaged foods, lots of fruits and veggies, were already part of his daily routine.

Jennifer Edwards: To all who Wish to Cut Funding to PBS, NPR and the NEA: Please Consider Your Children Jennifer Edwards 2011

It was an easy transition for the adults because ground-work had been laid from the beginning around food -- limited sugar, packaged foods, lots of fruits and veggies, were already part of his daily routine.

Jennifer Edwards: To all who Wish to Cut Funding to PBS, NPR and the NEA: Please Consider Your Children Jennifer Edwards 2011

HOWEVER, monies put into a Primary as touched on elsewhere are not just about the Primary but about laying a ground-work for the General Election.

Charlie Crist Picks A Fight Republicans Don’t Need - Dan_McLaughlin’s blog - RedState 2009

HOWEVER, monies put into a Primary as touched on elsewhere are not just about the Primary but about laying a ground-work for the General Election.

Charlie Crist Picks A Fight Republicans Don’t Need - Dan_McLaughlin’s blog - RedState 2009

Mitt or McCain or whoever ... the Repugs are laying the ground-work for a retention of power in November.

Mason-Dixon: Romney Ahead In Florida 2009

Having designed control systems for many engineering application, I have to say ground-work is essential and often has the people that do understand the whole system better than some statistician who only has the data and some approximate equations at hand.

Things I'm Glad I Never Said, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

He wanted not only “to keep China in the war tying up the Japanese soldiers” but to lay the ground-work for rapprochements between China and Russia and the two competing political factions in China itself—the KMT and the CCP—thus getting a jump on postwar issues.

The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

Instead, it is like we waited and now bite at each other over what to do now because WE FAILED to lay the ground-work in the past let alone be able to look forward beyond the next Election.

The Problem with the NRSC’s Crist Endorsement - Erick’s blog - RedState 2009