Past events and conversations serve as springboards from which he leaps off into long passages of wordy rumination.
These jobs often serve as springboards into prestigious business schools, followed by jobs as full-fledged investment bankers.
"Policy groups" have been formed that throw down a challenge to Mr Aso; they might serve as springboards to form a new political party.
Paolo Di Canio believes he has inspired a "complete revolution" at Sunderland where strict discipline and stellar fitness are intended to serve as springboards to an attractive new brand of football.
As such, they were meant to serve as springboards for discussion, rebuttal, response, and debate.
Both reports examine the implementation experiences of small high schools, and will serve as springboards for a systematic, three-year qualitative study beginning in fall 2004.
Importantly, CBAs might also serve as springboards from which community coalitions could launch into broader action for community development and policy reform (Parks and Warren 2009).
Saul Nassé, Controller of Learning, said, "I want to use BBC programmes that are known and loved by audiences that can serve as springboards for learning.
(Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, New York: Bantam, 1988) What we call things matters – reports of medical errors "channel attention, shape interpretations and serve as springboards for action"[ 1].
