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Example sentences for: launching

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On May 29, Clarke suggested that Rice ask DCI Tenet what more the United States could do to stop Abu Zubaydah from launching"a series of major terrorist attacks," probably on Israeli targets, but possibly on U.S. facilities.
We’ve divided the country into six regions, each with at least one major town accessible by air as a “launching pad” from which to explore the hinterland: Ontario; Québec; the Atlantic (Newfoundland and the Maritimes); British Columbia; the Rockies and the Prairie Provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba); and the North (Yukon, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories).
In the world of scientific publishing, there is nothing quite like launching a journal, especially when the case for the journal is as strong as it is for the PLoS community journals.
The news that the U.S. government was launching a legal battle against Microsoft led the Financial Times of London Monday and was on the front pages of most European newspapers.
The Washington Post declared that Yeltsin is back in the saddle and is launching a much-needed second wave of economic reform.