Some who voted against the measure hint that they'll reverse themselves if she helps with the political groundwork in their districts.

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

Members of the commission repeatedly praised Mr. Kerrey as bold and courageous, but they said he had not laid the political groundwork for his recommendations.

The political groundwork for change had been laid by the "realistic rents" policy applied to the public sector by the Housing Subsidies Act 1956.

The letter suggested a role for a council that would unite the various insurgent groups and help lay the political groundwork for the day the Americans depart.

Mrs. Clinton's remarks, part of a series of speeches she is making to lay political groundwork for the health-care plan, drew appreciative applause here.

The two men should work together to lay the legal and political groundwork for extraditing Mr. Milosevic.

In 1971 Sadat began the coordinated political and military groundwork to achieve this.

"That will give us time to be fully ready for you..." Time to lay the political groundwork, Marcus understood him to mean.

His praise lays the political groundwork for the next President to make even greater use of that body in the resolution of international conflicts.