Sentence examples for a launching point for attacks from inspiring English sources

In a preamble, the document repeats language from a broader strategic partnership agreement signed last year in which the United States pledged not to use Afghan territory or facilities "as a launching point for attacks against other countries". But that language is not expected to prohibit U.S. drone strikes against al-Qaeda and other insurgent groups in neighboring Pakistan.

Some Norman lords used England as a launching point for attacks into South and North Wales, spreading up the valleys to create new Marcher territories.

Following the success of his 1756 assault on Fort Oswego, Montcalm had been seeking an opportunity to deal with the British position at Fort William Henry, since it provided the British with a launching point for attacks against Fort Carillon.

Both Israel and the United States had reluctantly consented to Syria's military intervention in Lebanon that same year, but the result was a partitioned state with the PLO dominating the south of the country, which was now a launching point for terror attacks against Israelis living in the Upper Galilee.

The Qaim area, nearly 200 miles northwest of Baghdad along the most direct route from the Iraqi capital to Syria, was a launching point for Iraqi ballistic missile attacks during the 1991 Persian Gulf war.

All were formidable WWII battlewagons--the Saratoga, a launching point for U.S. fighter planes attacking Guadalcanal; the Nagato, the command center for Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

Place management theory (Madensen and Eck 2013) provides a launching point for such an inquiry.

"It was a great launching point for us," says Esperanza.

And Hamas used civilian areas as cover for the launching points for its attacks.

But as last week's attacks made clear, the fashion among hackers appears to be attacking the little guys and secretly using their computers as launching points for bigger, coordinated attacks on the big companies.

The organization could no longer use that region as a "launching pad for attacks," he said.