Sentences with word «spadework»

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, and her team have played down talk of a 2020 presidential run, though she has been doing the type of spadework endemic to past candidates.

As good as the earlier films are, Ponsoldt was only doing spadework for his best yet, his tenderest.

Each of the seven pastors had already done exegetical spadework in the historical - critical issues in the passage.

I sure don't, but because of the expository spadework done in the two previous movies, Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith can take itself just seriously enough to be dramatically satisfying as well as good fun.

But I think it may have for me, having been thus put on the spot; because it seemed to me that these reasons were about as good as any that might come along, unless one is prepared to do a lot of spadework.

If you need compound interest to do most of the spadework for you, you're not going to be Retiring Early

There is a sense of meditation being the «spadework» of prayer which should naturally lead to a conversation with Christ and true contemplation.

And that of course was the whole purpose of my course anyway — to get the students to do the spadework.

Canelo was taking his time, putting in the spadework with the feints, finding his range.

By the spring of 1949 the new coach's spadework had begun to pay off.

A whirlwind tour of Ireland completes the spadework of weekend economic survey and makes secure forever the glorious place of the shovel in the history of Irish athletics

The «spadework», as shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle says, was done by Andrew Adonis.

Subtly, however, Cuomo looks very much like someone doing the spadework to run for president.

One source closely linked to the probe but who asked not to be identified dismissed the claim that Maziarz is no longer under the scrutiny of Bharara, who inherited much of the spadework performed by the Moreland Commission.

Kurt Schwitters, the German one - man avant - garde, was neglected in his adopted Britain but did the spadework for generations of artists

And at least Kerry is doing what few others have tried seriously, which is the spadework with the big emitters to create a coalition of the willing.

The only question now is will Obama take Nasheed's lead (and echo First Lady Michelle Obama's spadework) and focus attention on the effort by helping tighten the bolts up on the roof?

«The spadework for that capacity is already done,» says Mathur, noting that government auctions have secured 15 - GW worth of commitments.

What should be of deeper concern is if access to the raw data is obfuscated in any way (beyond the usual and inexcusable NERC nonsense)-- can anybody save me the spadework of scoping that out?

For «niche» blogs covering specialized areas of the law that aim primarily to, say, educate readers about new court decisions on a relevant topic, I don't see why a ghostwriter with a strong legal research and writing background can't do that effectively for a lawyer simply too busy to do all the spadework.

Home assistants are some of the most popular internet of things (IoT) devices out there, but it takes lots of spadework and creativity to make them intuitive and fun to use.