I've laid the groundwork.

A psychiatrist doesn't lay the groundwork.

The existence of the POPs focal area may provide the groundwork for an expanded GEF mandate to serve a cluster of chemicals conventions and processes.

We commend all who have been involved in that groundwork.

Despite all of this groundwork, progress so far has not been possible.

The groundwork for the provision of information about trials has also been established.

Lastly, let us lay the groundwork for a partnership among civilizations, based on genuine dialogue.

They have also been able to facilitate and prepare the groundwork for more formal negotiations.

The groundwork could be laid at a regional and subregional level prior to that conference.

In Egypt, UNDCP laid the groundwork for an assessment study to be undertaken in 1996.

UNHCR apos s initial rehabilitation activities have not always laid the groundwork for sustainable reintegration.

Assistance in capacity building could help municipal authorities in laying the groundwork for accessing capital markets.

Well focused development programmes could lay the groundwork for prevention and help to stem escalating violence.

Such activities would prepare the groundwork for the use of telemedicine and other techniques in disaster management.

It had completed some long running projects and laid the groundwork for the efficient completion of others.

That country's commitment, for the first time, to abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programmes in a verifiable manner will provide important groundwork for achieving the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula through the six party talks in the future.

The groundwork for improving cooperation in the fight against crime within the Commonwealth had been laid in 2004.

During 1997, UNIFEM laid the groundwork for placing gender advisers to the resident coordinator system in 10 countries.

The decisions taken last week here in Geneva have laid the necessary groundwork for beginning the work in Vienna.

Laying a careful groundwork for their undercover identities... picking out items from old newspaper files... weighing and sifting them.

This work laid the groundwork for the development of a matrix of indicators to help Governments to formulate better strategies.

The aim of the Programme is to lay the groundwork for future IFAD investments, or to back up ongoing projects.

First, they need to lay the groundwork for a successful conclusion to the forthcoming seventh round of the Abuja peace talks.

Another planned initiative is a new global training programme on export consortia for which the preparatory groundwork has been carried out.

Sri Lanka, however, accepts the fact that some groundwork has to be done before the establishment of an ad hoc committee.

2. Commends the first concrete steps taken by the States of the region in preparing the legal groundwork for their initiative

Without a bold breakthrough in 2005 that lays the groundwork for a rapid progress in coming years, we will miss the targets.

The groundwork for a market economy had been laid, economic stability was gaining strength and an investment friendly environment had been created.

There was a real possibility that this strategy would succeed given that Guinea laid throughout the 1990s the groundwork for sustainable development.

The Tribunal continues to lay further legal and logistical groundwork for the transfer of lower and intermediate level prosecutions to national jurisdictions.

Moreover, the groundwork has been laid for constructive consideration of some aspects of funding of operational activities by the Council in 1997.

Well, now look, if you're trying to lay some psychiatric groundwork for some sort of plea, this fellow would like to cop...

The United Nations country team is working with the Transitional Government of Haiti to prepare the groundwork for an eventual Poverty Reduction Strategy.

Nonetheless, this High level Plenary Meeting has agreed on certain orientations and taken decisions in principle that lay the groundwork for future progress.

Nevertheless, efforts were continuing within the Department of Peacekeeping Operations to lay the groundwork for a review of management structures in peacekeeping operations.

The two sides also adopted the Japan DPRK Pyongyang Declaration as the basis for their bilateral relations. Paragraph 3 lays the groundwork as follows

Other efforts will be made to bring like minded States together to lay the technical, legal and political groundwork for a nuclear weapons convention.

Without national ownership providing a vision of the sort of country for which the transition process is laying the groundwork, sustainable peace is unlikely.

Cooperation between Israeli police and police in countries of origin is maintained, thus laying the groundwork for the extradition of a central trafficker during 2004.

It is certain that the agreement reached at the previous Six Party Talks laid solid groundwork for progress towards a comprehensive diplomatic resolution of the issue.

This conference laid the groundwork for the implementation of the Convention at the national and regional levels and agreed on measures of cooperation in the region.

He also welcomed the statement that the groundwork for a cost accounting system had been laid, and endorsed the view of the Committee on Conferences thereon.

This conference laid the groundwork for the implementation of the Convention at the national and regional levels and agreed on measures of cooperation in the region.

It has also laid the scientific and policy groundwork necessary to begin negotiations, in 1998, for a new global chemicals safety convention on persistent organic pollutants.

The groundwork for this question was laid some time ago. In 1974, the economist Richard Easterlin published a famous paper, Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot?