spade work in a sentence

Examples

1. Rewane and Begho along with Mr V . A . Savages ( B . A . Hons ) did the spade work to ensure that the school became reality.
2. With the azaleas in bloom and spring in the air, the presidential contenders for 2000 are heading South, hoping some early spade work will blossom into money and support.
3. Spade work is being completed for a second multi-billion-dollar oil city at Shibao a hut 1o0 iles ( 250 kilomeoert ) esoeths'f the capital Riyadh, oil induCtry executives reported Sunday.
4. If the GOP doesn't like what's being dug up, perhaps it should have done better spade work of its own before backing Craddick as heir apparent to the speaker's throne.
5. At the Department of Economic Security, where government workers are busy doing the spade work on the state's new welfare reform law, few seemed preoccupied by the governor's legal tribulations.
6. That said, Trump has yet to do the kind of political spade work that a candidate for office, or even a potential one, would customarily have done by this point.
7. But the mayor will need to moderate some of the plan's provisions _ and do some political spade work _ if the City Council is to find the proposal palatable.
8. "Typically, this meeting doesn't produce a large volume of trades, as much as a lot of spade work is done when stuff starts to happen going down to the deadline,"
9. He declined to identify the subjects of the subpoenas but said the panel planned to conduct thorough " spade work " before it convened hearings, probably not until April or May.
10. As a result, he said, much of the investigative spade work he had recently done at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston went unused.