Sentence examples for it became the launch from inspiring English sources

Like McBride's A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, Oona Frawley's impressively cosmopolitan debut Flight languished for nearly a decade without a publisher, before it became the launch title for Tramp Press last year.

It became the launching pad for all his other ambitious public undertakings, including the 29 dams built by the Tennessee Valley Authority that were to follow.And yet the Hoover itself was no great creator of jobs.

Most people probably don't think of Kenya as an innovation and technology hub, but in 2007 it became the launching pad for M-Pesa, a transformative mobile phone-based platform for money transfer and financial services.

It became the fourth biggest launch of 2011 after FIFA 12, Gears of War 3 and L.A. Noire, and Warner Bros. biggest UK game launch ever, doubling the first week sales of Arkham Asylum.

On Wednesday, it became the first to launch a "happiness course" for students in the UK, teaching strategies for a more fulfilling life.

Alaska Airlines became the launch customer for the 737 900 when it placed an order for it in November 1997.

"I became the launch guy somehow," he says.

The interview went swimmingly and became the launch point for my career at Al Jazeera.

That red line became the launch pad for this politics of swagger.

Alaska Airlines became the launch customer of the Boeing 737 900 in 1997 and currently operates twelve of the aircraft.

A decade later it became the first private firm to launch a spacecraft into orbit and bring it back to earth.