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The history of many European countries is such that Europe has much stronger ties with Africa than does the United States, so it makes political sense for the European Union to fund research that provides a springboard for European researchers to compete effectively with US scientists.
Extrapolating on the theories of the Renaissance designer, Geofroy Tory, as expounded in his Champ Fleury (1529), Firmage takes Tory's sketches as the springboard for his analysis of the letter-shapes and the sometimes highly stylized forms they assume throughout history, from their inchoate inception in the Near East down to present-day, computer-generated typefaces.
It's easy to mistake it for that, and her critics generally do, making her a springboard for an attack on feminism in general.
For vacationers, this town strategically located on Lake Superior’s northwest shore is a springboard to the national parks of Ontario’s interior.
Obviously taking her lead from Slate --see "Culturebox," "I Want My Electronic Baby Sitter!"--a NYT op-ed writer uses the recent anti-TV report by the American Academy of Pediatrics as a springboard to sing her praises to that ultimate babysitter--the one with the blue glow: "I fondly imagined my kids glazed-eyed, slack-jawed--and quiet.