But in laying out its working theory, it adopted a posture that may hold true in its final report.

I laid out my theory of what is going on.

Schoen took his time laying out the evidence he had gathered and his theory.

But he went further, in a 23-page concurring opinion, which Justices Stevens and Sandra Day O'Connor also signed, laying out his own theory.

Defense lawyers objected frequently yesterday as prosecutors laid out their theory of how Mrs. Silverman was killed.

On his flight to Afghanistan, he had a long talk with Jones, in which Jones "laid out his theory of the war."

It allows the prosecution a reasonable chance to lay out its central theory: that the killing was the culmination of years of domestic strife in a violence-plagued relationship.

In The Crooked Sixpence, he also laid out his personal theory of journalism.

He laid out his culinary theory.

It can be easily used by other researchers as a test-bed, where can they lay out their theory in terms of initial and subsequent states of the Sugarscape.