Sentence examples for of the launchings from inspiring English sources

The Gaza branch of Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, a militia nominally affiliated with Hamas's main rival, Fatah, has claimed responsibility for some of the launchings.

European companies have a 40 percent share of the global market in commercial satellite launchings, and economists say the revenue they generate is roughly 20 times the cost of the launchings themselves.

"You feel a sense of gratitude when it goes up," David Margolese, Sirius's chief executive, said of the launchings, which he and Sirius staff members watched on closed-circuit television.

And then there are those awe-inspiring acts of man, the launchings of space shuttles — or there were, until Friday, when the final flight erupted from the launching pad at the Kennedy Space Center.

"People think that leaving home to go off to school is the big trauma, but the majority of kids do fairly well adjusting to college by the end of the first month, and their parents start to adjust, too," says Laura Kastner, a therapist who is co-author of "The Launching Years: Strategies for Parenting From Senior Year to College Life".

Among the highlights of its quarter-century of service were the launchings of robotic probes to Venus and Jupiter, the deployment of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory satellite, five military missions and seven flights to the Russian Mir space station.

Washington suspects North Korea of using the launchings as cover to develop intercontinental ballistic missile technology, while the North has insisted that it has the sovereign right to develop "peaceful" space technology.

Ukrainian military experts said a re-examination of data from the launchings for that day showed that all missiles had been accounted for and that none had flown more than 25 miles off the Crimean coast before plummeting into the sea.

Also Tuesday, an analysis posted on 38 North, a Web site run by the U.S.-Korea U.S.-Korea Instituteopkins University, satd that the construction of new North Korean facilities designed to support the launchings of rockets bigger than the one tested in April was making rapid progress.

In contrast, it is the launchings of disposable rockets that are routine.

In the first place, they say, missile sales were becoming less lucrative than the launchings of American satellites that the new arrangement clears the way for.