Sentence examples for base to launch from inspiring English sources

That allowed al-Qaida to move in and use Afghanistan as a base to launch 9/11.

But it was also the city Lenin used as his base to launch Russia's disastrous experiment with "socialism in one country".

In October Brazil signed a similar agreement to allow Ukraine to use the base to launch satellites atop its Cyclone rockets.

As a result, it could build a base of operations in underdefended territory and then use that base to launch an expanded attack.

New York, London and regional centres were the beneficiaries.Smokestacks and ivory towersIn Pittsburgh and Baltimore grand research universities provided both the economic diversity and the skills base to launch new technological and life-science clusters.

If we use the space station as our base to launch and maintain manned spacecraft, I believe that we will have taken a major step toward a sustainable manned space program.

Later on Sunday it was reported that Turkey had agreed to let the US use some of its bases to launch air strikes against Isis.

The operation secured valuable bases to launch attacks on British shipping and protected the vital supplies of high-quality Swedish iron ore, essential to German arms production.

He also continued to allow the US to use Saudi bases to launch the war on Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003.

Differences over countering Islamist extremism have seen Turkey refusing to grant the US access to its own bases to launch attacks against Isis.

Although Saudi leaders opposed a war with Iraq, they allowed the United States to use several military bases to launch air attacks into Iraq and as a staging ground for American troops.