Sentence examples for as the launchpad from inspiring English sources

Ross disguised a deliberate knock-on neatly enough to avoid a yellow card but Bristol used the resulting scrum as the launchpad for their opening try.

The fatal flaw in the way the formation was applied was the use of Rio Ferdinand as the launchpad for attacks.

For well over two decades, the Sundance film festival has served as the launchpad for the most anticipated independent film offerings.

Since the mid-1990s, residents have increasingly been using abandoned buildings as the launchpad for daring architectural projects, art exhibits and social experiments.

South Korea said it was launched from Sunan, the location of Pyongyang's international airport, raising the possibility that a runway was used as the launchpad.

Speaking at the opening of the Labour spring conference in Birmingham, seen as the launchpad for the May local elections, Blears insisted: Boris is no joke.

As well as being the launchpad for many of Apatow's regulars, including Rogen, Jason Segel and James Franco ("One of the reasons I keep working with them is I feel such responsibility – some of them turned down college to be on my show! I should probably stop feeling that"), Freaks & Geeks was one of the best TV shows about American teenagers ever made.

The crew had attempted to prepare for it by training in darkened simulators so as to keep their night vision, but in practice it was discovered that the light of the solid-fuel rocket boosters made the immediate area around the launchpad virtually as bright as a day launch.

If the vehicle has been assembled horizontally, it must be raised into a vertical position as it reaches the launchpad.

"Rosetta" is an online language translation tool to help localisation of software, developed and maintained by Canonical as part of the Launchpad project.

(There are regular accelerators under the Launchpad brand, as well).