Sentence examples for using as a launching from inspiring English sources

At dawn, the army's hulking D-9 bulldozers systematically flattened the large orange groves that the military says Hamas has been using as a launching pad.

The government replied quickly, saying, "Jordan will not be used as a launching pad".

But, he added, the contests could be used as a launching pad for the general election.

The caucus is regularly used as a launching pad in Congress for pro-gun legislation.

Prime minister Silvio Berlusconi had promised that Italy would not be used as a launching pad for attacks on Iraq.

Jordan will not be used as a launching pad, and we do not have any U.S. forces in Jordan".

There would be a "cost" to "our neighbors," he said, if their territory was found to have been used as a launching pad.

What if he hadn't choked on that prescription drug vial cap that he supposedly used as a launching pad for his meds?

Soon after, it battled its way into Sadr City as part of an American and Iraqi campaign to control the areas that the militias have used as a launching pad to fire rockets at the Green Zone.

President Asif Ali Zardari promised after the attacks that he would do what he could to stop Pakistan from being used as a launching pad by "nonstate actors," a reference to militants.

Al From, president of the Democratic Leadership Council, which Mr. Clinton once chaired and used as a launching pad for his presidential campaign, argued that Mr. Clinton's Democratic Party should be measured by the distance traveled rather than the shortcomings of the last campaign.