A sprout is the initial thrust, a spindly hope arching toward the light.
The first stage is the heaviest part of the vehicle and has the largest rocket engines, the largest fuel and oxidizer tanks, and the highest thrust; its task is to impart the initial thrust needed to overcome Earth's gravity and thus to lift the total weight of the vehicle and its payload off of Earth.
Roosevelt was candid in admitting that the initial thrust of the New Deal was experimental.
The initial thrust is provided by the nine-engine cluster, fuelled by kerosene and liquid oxygen.
When the New York Philharmonic introduced Contact!, a new and much-needed contemporary-music concert series, in December 2009, the initial thrust was on freshly composed works, largely by Americans.
He will use it to road-test a new set of speeches his staff have been crafting, which will provide the initial thrust behind his campaign against Mr Bush.
Part of the initial thrust will be from your ring finger as it straightens out, sending the pen around your middle finger.
Whether they survive the initial thrust, though, is anyone's guess.
But the initial thrust of change is nowhere better depicted than in Help!, a film that encouraged nothing less than the re-imagination of the Englishman.
The initial thrust of the workshop was the concept of environmental management systems, the organized programs by which companies ensure adherence to high standards of environmental stewardship.
