For this reason, the European left is often critical of Weber for, albeit unwittingly, "preparing the intellectual groundwork for the leadership position of Adolf Hitler."

Tackling such formidable problems can obviously not be the work of a single conference; it will require years just to lay the intellectual groundwork.

These experiences laid the intellectual groundwork for the ethical movement.

There were no doubt many causes, but most salient was the intellectual groundwork created by Emerson and his followers in the Transcendentalist movement.

Eugenicist Frederick Osborn laid the intellectual groundwork for liberal eugenics as early as the 1930s when he was the director of the Carnegie Institution for Science.

The intellectual groundwork underlying Gault helped catalyze an insurgence of retributive principles, which influenced the penological debate in the Netherlands.

Although many of those groups are not overtly involved in politics, they are providing the intellectual groundwork for the political advocates.

"We always liked to say, and Guiliani has said this, too, that in a way we laid the intellectual groundwork that allowed Rudolph Giuliani to be elected in 1993," Mr. Magnet said.

And every now and again, an editorial appears in The Yale Daily News from a student lambasting or praising Mr. Buckley's intellectual groundwork.

CRG was the first organization to compile documented cases of genetic discrimination, laying the intellectual groundwork for the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA).