pave the way

This is a significant report which could pave the way for a major change in the way abortion is viewed and administered in Scotland.

The US had hoped the referendum would pave the way for it to open a military base, 16 years after it was made to close a site on the Pacific coast.

A more detailed understanding of how these molecular rearrangements occur, and the ability to control them under extreme conditions, could pave the way for creating entirely new materials that do not exist naturally on Earth.

Scipio didn’t pave the way for the tyrannical Caesars who were to come; he represents what they might have been.

Merz has made reviving the eurozone's traditional powerhouse a priority after two years of recession, relaxing strict debt rules to pave the way for a spending blitz on infrastructure and defence.