And he went on to lay out some of the terms that it seems the opposition has laid out -- stop attacks on civilians, move the troops out of the cities, allow humanitarian aid deliveries, et cetera.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

He will, as he does, make the case to the American people for the vision he laid out in his inaugural address, and the specifics that he will lay out at his State of the Union address on February 12.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

She laid him back down and walked around the bed, working the sheet until it lay reasonably flat.

NEWYORKER: The Visitor

Two years later, at a conference at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, he laid the foundations of his reputation in America with a bold new way to approach literary texts and lay bare their ideological presuppositions.

ECONOMIST: Obituary