launching-pad

It earns him piles of money, which is because America, depicted as a bastion of corporate greed and individualism, is the ideal launching-pad for the perverse fantasies of failed salesmen.

Ilana Teitelbaum: Sex, Lies, and the Workplace: Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt Ilana Teitelbaum 2011

It earns him piles of money, which is because America, depicted as a bastion of corporate greed and individualism, is the ideal launching-pad for the perverse fantasies of failed salesmen.

Ilana Teitelbaum: Sex, Lies, and the Workplace: Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt Ilana Teitelbaum 2011

How is it that a financial crisis that failed to become a full-scale depression only because governments and therefore the taxpayers bailed out the failed financial institutions has become the launching-pad for savage cuts in public spending and a punitive scaling-back in the role of government?

The coalition is lacking a Lib Dem voice Bryan Gould 2010

Since it's four years away, there is a school of thought that he could run for the Senate or state comptroller next year, win, and then use that office as a launching-pad for a mayoral campaign.

Thompson's Options: Senator (Risky), Comptroller (Safer), Mayor (TK) 2009

Since it's four years away, there is a school of thought that he could run for the Senate or state comptroller next year, win, and then use that office as a launching-pad for a mayoral campaign.

Thompson's Options: Senator (Risky), Comptroller (Safer), Mayor (TK) 2009

But the identification of Somalia by Osama bin Laden as a potential launching-pad for terrorism precludes leaving it to its own factional devices.

Archive 2007-01-01 Richard 2007

Normally I'd use this travesty as a launching-pad for a 1,200-word diatribe about how Elizabeth Kostova shouldn't be shelved anywhere near Bram Stoker, much less be invited to write an introduction to Dracula, but Carrie A.A.

Archive 2005-09-01 Abigail Nussbaum 2005

Normally I'd use this travesty as a launching-pad for a 1,200-word diatribe about how Elizabeth Kostova shouldn't be shelved anywhere near Bram Stoker, much less be invited to write an introduction to Dracula, but Carrie A.A.

Signs of the Coming Apocalypse, No. 496 Abigail Nussbaum 2005

With its ultra-liberal political economy and status as one of the International Monetary Fund's brightest pupils, Rawlings 'Ghana has all the attributes to serve as a launching-pad for a tour

ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

These impressive achievements must become the launching-pad for further advances.

From Ungovernability to Peoples Power - 1986 1986