| While district leaders are busy doing the spadework, senior leaders are converging on the town one after the other. |
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| The spadework was done by Petrov and Sutton, and their Swedish teammate duly converted from close in. |
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| Today has been spent partly at work but partly doing some spadework on health policies. |
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| Why not let the other side do all the hard political spadework of introducing new taxes and then spend the revenue when it's your turn in office? |
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| This right-wing think tank performed the ideological spadework for the war and provided a large share of the personnel who launched it. |
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| However, we played a great system that meant I had a lot of chances and my strike partner Lee put in a lot of spadework for me. |
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| States that do the necessary spadework can hope for sufficient foreign direct investment. |
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| But the spadework and contacts that he had undertaken during his lifetime did much to lighten the labour of those who followed. |
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| They did the spadework for the score in a good passage of support play, Wade arriving on cue to drive over and finish off the movement. |
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| It may well turn out to be a stinker anyway, but at least its leading actor has put in a bit of spadework. |
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| Her ideas on various projects were widely borrowed, but due credit was not given for all the spadework she unstintingly put in. |
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| Practically the entire spadework for the organization had already been done within the sanctums of the U.S. Treasury Department. |
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| It does all the spadework created by the dealing of shares, and very little else. |
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| Even though he was not at the helm then, Parreira can claim it was he who did the spadework for his compatriot, Santana. |
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| First of all, they have been recognized by international critics, who have always done the spadework when it comes to spotting new talents. |
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| And even he could not conceive of the further technological miracles that would arise from his spadework over the next 140 years. |
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| This will demand a large amount of spadework as well as one strategic choice. |
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| Krones was able to finalise some ongoing acquisition projects at the fair, and do plenty of spadework for future success. |
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| Though the family obsession with privacy required that much be left out, Carrington had done the essential spadework, and all subsequent biographers are indebted to him. |
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| We know that much of the spadework in the House is done at the committee level. |
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| You should do a little spadework before giving your interviewers the go-ahead. |
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| My task has been made easier by the first-rate spadework of the current Council Presidency, with which the Commission has excellent relations. |
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| We did a lot of successive spadework and took a lot out to reach the essential. |
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| There is a great deal more spadework that the marketing team could and should do to ensure that the company reaps the most from its investment in the event. |
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| The spadework should aim to put right the failings of today's regulation, which often owes more to politics than it does to sound finance. |
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| Since the Institute had still to be equipped with knowledgeable staff and consultants in this field, I had to shoulder much of the responsibility for this spadework. |
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| Desk work burns fewer calories than spadework. |
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| Despite his gumshoe appellation, Banks never gets to exhibit ratiocinative brilliance or to engage in intricate spadework. |
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| Such terms gloss over the fact that, just like the pipes that carry water, the tubes that carry bits are reliant on old-fashioned, low-tech spadework, human contact and the geographical reality in which all that exists. |
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| Such analyses can be highly informative, but this requires a great deal of preliminary spadework and the certainty that the data compared are indeed properly comparable. |
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| This year has inevitably demanded an amount of spadework, wedged as it is between the introduction of the euro and the biggest enlargement in our history. |
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| In 2006, the spadework laid by ad hoc project-staff started to bear fruit. |
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| Thanks to the spadework already performed by other sectors, we can use their experience to illuminate our thinking on translating information into knowledge and then aggressively sharing this knowledge. |
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| It is obvious that the current members of the Commission want to leave the problem to their successors and that they are relying on the ongoing Community-level dispute to do some of the spadework on the issue. |
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| Brown has been in top form for the Hoops after missing the start of the season, doing the spadework to allow attacking players the room to shine. |
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| I decided to spare the editor more spadework and attacked the big Webster's myself. |
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| The Welshmen went behind in the 70th minute as Liam McKenzie and Tom McGowan did the spadework for Semple to tap in at the far post. |
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| Leaders of 27 countries, including a grandstanding David Cameron, failed to do the spadework before gathering in Brussels so they must now meet again next year. |
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| Trust volunteers are undertaking the bog restoration spadework with National Park staff and the work is being funded through the North Pennines AONB Partnership. |
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| Spadework for launching these degree-level has already been started, he added. |
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