A few minutes earlier, sitting at the front of the hall, he had fiddled with a lapel mike and abruptly launched into his presentation.
The nature of Sartre and Beauvoir's partnership was never a secret to their friends, and it was not a secret to the public, either, after they were abruptly launched into celebrity, in 1945.
So I feel slightly apprehensive when Edward Richards, a retired saw-mill operator, abruptly launches into a tale about a visit from a French TV crew.All was going well, apparently, until the subject of identity came up.
Then, to his utter gratification, the creature abruptly launches the performance he hoped for--emitting a raspy squeak so soft and high-pitched that Jarvis, when he first arrived in the forest, had taken for an insect's buzz.
That's why Rubio has abruptly launched a series of attacks on Trump — his business practices, his veracity and more.
Acer cancelled the launch abruptly, leaving Alibaba fuming publicly at Google's actions.
Newly-released documents from Google's October arbitration against Anthony Levandowski, one of the leads of its self-driving car project who abruptly left to launch his own startup Otto in January last year, allege that the talented engineer worked on competing projects for years before leaving Google.
Instead he abruptly changes course, launching into a fairly conventional description of the troubles that lurked in the pre-crisis financial markets.
I started to feel the lag when I tried to add a few more tasks to the list and the next app I launched abruptly crashed.
The Pakistanis authorized drone missions over Bajaur and surrounding locations near the Afghan border, but the requests ended abruptly when Pakistani troops launched offensives in Swat and Buner, areas deep inside Pakistani territory just dozens of miles from Islamabad.
