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After someone fired a catapult at his home, breaking a window, Ryneš gave the recordings to the police, allowing them to identify two suspects, who were subsequently prosecuted.
Harris's excellent Moneypenny came to the fore in Bond hit Skyfall recently but her performance as Winnie Mandela opposite Idris Elba's Nelson in Justin Chadwick's film looks set to catapult her to the front rank of actresses.
Whether it's Nicole Kidman starring in a cinematic three-minute ad for Chanel, Justin Bieber and Lara Stone stripped down to their Calvin Klein underwear, or George Clooney looking suave sipping a Nespresso, there's no doubting the power of celebrity to catapult awareness of a brand.
The blurb for Brighton's new digital catapult centre reads like a political manifesto, with promises of encouraging innovation and unlocking value.
Interpol's public appeal hopes to catch nine fugitives suspected of environmental crimes costing hundreds of millions of dollars, in a move to catapult the issue to the forefront of international law enforcement.
"New Hampshire is the state that will catapult him on to victory in a very short period of time," McCain declared during a speech to Romney supporters at a rally in Manchester which focused largely on attacking Barack Obama.
"That is the point of the digital catapult centre – by allowing a collaborative space, innovation will come," he says.
It's how fibreglass is made, he explains and then drops this demonstration sample into a bin where it later explodes and threatens to catapult across the room.
Even so, there have been initiatives such as the business bank, the cuts in corporation tax, the tax breaks for companies that exploit patents, the catapult centres to encourage exploitation of spinoffs from universities, that may improve Britain's industrial performance given time.
Some machines are boarded off for confidential experiments by individual businesses.The job of this "High-Value Manufacturing Catapult " (HVM) is to turn academic ideas into marketable products.
A French arms ban in the 1960s sparked the development of its weapons industry, helping to catapult Israel into fourth place in the world's league of arms exporters.
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The word "catapult" functions as both a noun , referring to a device used for launching projectiles, and a verb , describing the act of launching or propelling something with force. Ludwig AI confirms its correct usage in various contexts.
Expression frequency: Very common
