Sentence examples for were the launching from inspiring English sources

The stores were the launching pads of true outsiders, and their examples provided inspiration for Swanberg and Perry to see video stores as cinematic playgrounds (Swanberg worked at his local store starting at age sixteen).

Among the film's many attributes were the launching, in a small role, of Claudia Cardinale and the casting, in a comic part for the first time, of the dramatic Italian actor Vittorio Gassman, as a washed-up professional thief whose nondescript gang bungles a shabbily organised robbery.

For many years, Broadway musicals were the launching pad for songs that would enter the pop mainstream.

Paris is the launching pad.

This then, is the launching point.

And it really was the launching pad for the story".

This will be the launching arm.

When is the launch?

This was the launch issue.

"One was the launch of CNN on June 1 , 1980 the second was the launch of Bloomberg News in 1990; and the third was the launch of Politico in 2007".

When was the probe launched?