groundwork

“That was a good sign,” said one operative helping to lay the groundwork for a Hillary run.

This premiere has laid down the groundwork for a war: the underdogs and underappreciated will rise.

The final victory, said Cruz, was “laying the groundwork to repeal every single word of Obamacare.”

Ravenel knows he may not win in November, but he says the run could lay the groundwork for something else down the road.

If Dostoevsky unintentionally laid the philosophical groundwork upon which Putin now stands, then Tolstoy offers the solution.

In the clear light of a window at the woman's back, her hair, with a groundwork of crimson, was overshot with iridescent lights.

Had cooked up the scheme for pulling it off and had spent a good two weeks laying the groundwork.

The valves, gear, and nozzles were perhaps improved in detail; but the groundwork was unchanged.

I chanced on a hedge-sparrow's lately, the whole groundwork of which was composed of the dry vines of the wild white convolvulus.

All this is contained in the few lines which make up verse 33, and forms the groundwork of this great parable.