'Needless to say, I have already begun laying the necessary groundwork.'

Before setting up in this business, I did the necessary groundwork.

Disarming warlords should be put off until the necessary political groundwork has been laid at the negotiating table.

And supervising the Crippler drills would be a perfect opportunity to lay the necessary groundwork for that kind of strategic withdrawal.

This period laid the necessary groundwork for his brilliant diplomatic career.

He tried to halt the proliferation of arms without first laying the necessary groundwork.

Having laid the necessary groundwork, she could then - in Akalaitis fashion - approach a play as a transformative dream.

During the 1950s and 1960s, much of the theoretical groundwork necessary for numerical descriptions of wave evolution was laid.

The necessary groundwork having been laid, I invited Blomberg to stand and stretch his legs before we sat back down to resume our discussion.

There are almost no donations from individuals, in part because the staff is too small to do the necessary groundwork.