Sentence examples for a great springboard from inspiring English sources

"It's a great springboard into the series, to come in here playing well.

"It marks a new chapter for Tate but is also a great springboard from which other things will grow," he said.

A while before, hearing Bobby Short sing 'Weren't We Fools?,' it seemed like a great springboard for a full-length ballet.

All of which would be fine – a great springboard for a drama about art and its consequences – were it not for the fact that Miyazaki is so incurious too.

"I think that this lawsuit is a great springboard for some real reform to happen in the legislature next session," said Rebekah Harriman, executive director of Common Cause in Connecticut, which is a plaintiff in the lawsuit.

"It's just been a great springboard to graduate school," he said, though he noted that the $1,500 a month he paid to sublease a small one-bedroom apartment at 106th Street and Columbus Avenue would pay the mortgage "on a pretty nice house back home".

For Waters and director Michael Lehman, the film would be no great springboard to mainstream success.

"What we need to figure out is whether this is an exhibition game to appease someone who thought of a great idea, or will this springboard us toward having some significant dialogue to find out whether it's significant that the numbers are declining," Manuel said.

Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/GettyImages 9.00pm BST A great underwater shot of Olena Fedorova of the Ukraine competing in the Women's 3m springboard diving final in the Aquatics centre.

Deputy port manager Roger Arundale, said: "This contract is a great vote of confidence and a welcome consolidation of Suffolk's 'green' coast acting as a springboard for investment and job creation".

If we take the Arab Spring as a springboard for democracy in a region where it was notable for its absence, the result so far of course has been decidedly limited democratic change and a great deal of upheaval.