John Adams, asked to imagine a response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, produced "On the Transmigration of Souls," a complex, contemplative work that used personal mementos as a springboard to transcendental concerns.
Swiss stock options are taxed so prohibitively that they are usually a burden, rather than a springboard to personal wealth or an incentive to build a good company quickly.
We have worked with Oxford University, RBS and Springboard – a personal and professional development programme for women – to devise an undergraduate mentoring programme which helps young women engage with other successful professional female scientists and engineers.
Others, like Lyndon Johnson Lyndon Johnson and Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson, used government service as a springboard to personal fortune.
- G. Richard Shell, professor at the Wharton School and author of Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success.
As with the best of essayists, Mr Franzen uses personal thoughts or anecdotes as a springboard to explore wider themes.
For the best of them — Noelle Tan, Michael Lundgren, Barret Oliver, Sonja Thomsen — traditionalism is a springboard to something more personal.
Most endure it all out of party loyalty and personal ambition, seeing organising as the springboard to a political career.For their employers the advantages are more immediate.
'What is masculinity if not taking the weight / of a boy and straining it from oneself?" In "Strongman", Andrew McMillan takes his young nephew's playful request to "benchpress him" like "his mother's new lover can" as an imaginative springboard to some urgent personal and social concerns.
School can be used as a springboard for young people's personal development, helping them build confidence and make friends.
