Sentence examples for pad for future from inspiring English sources

Robert Redford is a two-time Oscar winner and founder of the Sundance film festival, which often serves as a launch pad for future award-winners.

But there is no point in whining when the challenge at hand is to transform this disaster into a launching pad for future prosperity.

Keynote speeches are often seen as a launching pad for future runs: most famously, Barack Obama was an obscure Senate candidate when he delivered the keynote for the Democrats in 2004; four years later, he was the nominee.

The self-described "investment banker of luxury watches" uses his store primarily as a meeting room and launching pad for future deals: When he is away on his travels, the premises stay closed.

It seems that these two seats might be the most important vacancies in the federal judiciary, due to the types of cases the court hears and it serving as a launching pad for future SCOTUS nominees (see, e.g., Roberts, Ginsburg, Thomas, Scalia).

The president will name Cornelia T. L. Pillard, a law professor; Patricia Ann Millett, an appellate lawyer; and Robert L. Wilkins, a federal district judge, to fill out the appeals court, which is often described as the second most powerful court in the country because it decides major cases and often serves as a launching pad for future Supreme Court justices.

I have a great launching pad for the future.

A campaign war chest that is still well stocked after a lost election is normally lined with regrets or padded for the future.

Inorganic arsenic is a known carcinogen for humans, affecting the bladder, lungs, skin and possibly more, and is also considered a launch pad for children to future health woes.

And veteran players on short deals can be especially valuable to rebuilding teams, who can play them higher up in the lineup to pad their stats, then flip them for future assets at the trade deadline.

Mr Obama asserted that America had achieved its central goal: to dismantle al-Qaeda and prevent Afghanistan from being used as a future launch pad for attacks against America.