spadework in a sentence

Examples

1. With all the spadework being done on the budget negotiations, there was still room for presidential politics to take root.
2. Halo : Let's not forget PJ . He's got a year's political spadework on you.
3. Jonathan Kraft said Weld had assured them he would take care of all the political spadework necessary to sell the plan.
4. That survey, which resembles several others taken recently, shows upward movement, after all the spadework, for Forbes.
5. That town is the setting for his most recent novel, " Spadework " ( HarperCollins, 2001 ).
6. After years of negotiations among education ministries, that spadework helped create an International Baccalaureate granted by 380 schools in 56 countries.
7. The FBI also did the spadework that resulted in the indictment of powerful House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski.
8. For all the spadework Gramm has done in Georgia, Dole is still much better known, which accounts for the early polls.
9. According to " The Wall Street Journal ", FDD " has done most of the spadework on the issue ".
10. Future workers who address these matters under this or any other label will find that Lynn has done a lot of spadework for them.