Sentence examples for launch the event from inspiring English sources

Organisers announced in March that Cardiff's Millennium Stadium will host the opening ceremony and a double-header to launch the event and also confirmed venues for the group matches and quarter-finals.

Billy Connolly's face was projected onto the rock face below Edinburgh Castle to launch the event and Sean Connery and Ewan McGregor are also to be honoured with the impressive tribute.

His eclectic record label and music brand, Sunday Best, has become a force to be reckoned with, and as Bestival – the festival founded by Rob and his wife Josie – gets set to celebrate its 10th anniversary (along with plans to launch the event in North America and the rest of Europe), the charismatic DJ is becoming just as well known for his entrepreneurial flair.

Bercot is the first female director to launch the event since Diane Kurys in 1987.

Thousands of veterans and serving members of the armed forces will march through Stirling to launch the event.

In 2012, the network signed a deal with Anschutz Entertainment Group to launch the event and move its award show to the Nokia Theatre.

The organisers, Andy Baio and Andy McMillan, launched the event via Kickstarter, the crowdfunding site at which Mr Baio was once chief technical officer.

In front of a crowd of 91,000, among them more than 80 heads of state, the Chinese president, Hu Jintao, launched the event to a huge cheer.

Along with White, scheduled to be at the official news conference launching the event today were U.S. Olympians Joss Christensen, Bobby Brown and Canadian Olympian Mark McMorris.

Hollywood Ending began the festival in 2002, Midnight in Paris launched the 2011 event.

A new training film will be launched at the event today.