(1) Privatisation is a necessary staging post to an open market.

(2) Hong Kong is often used as a staging post on flights from Melbourne to London.

(3) The new charters were to be a staging post.

(4) Remember that Earth is just a staging post along the way.

(5) They are the vital staging post for millions of birds migrating between Siberia and Australasia.

(6) This was, I kept telling myself, just a staging post.

(7) The city of Mondovi was a main staging post on the road to Genoa.

(8) It is also a key staging post on the route of birds travelling between Siberia and Australasia.

(9) Certainly Snaith Priory was a staging post for pilgrims travelling from Lincoln to York, as recorded on the altar kneelers.

(10) San Pedro was once a major staging post for the great cattle drives of yore, but is now a staging post on the great gringo trail.

(11) In the War of 1812, Bermuda was the staging post for the British fleet's attack on Washington(), D.

(12) It's also starting to be used as a staging post for travellers moving south from Laos or into Vietnam.

(13) But rather than being a staging post for recovery, the conference collapsed.

(14) The area had become a staging post for thousands of rescue workers in hard hats and orange suits, and soldiers from the People's Liberation Army.

(15) Not much of any importance until it became a staging post on the London to Brighton turnpike in the eighteenth.

(16) The bodies and plane wreckage will be transported tomorrow to Fernando de Noronha, where the military has set up a staging post for the search operation.

(17) Despite these limitations, the development of anticytokine therapies as part of the physician's armamentarium is an important staging post on the road to a cure for Crohn's disease.

(18) In 2012 a second bridge will link Chongming to the Yangzi's other bank, making it a staging post on a major route between Shanghai's main international airport and the cities of Jiangsu province.

(19) However, the Nou Camp was to be the last staging post for the partnership.

(20) Over the weekend, rebel forces secured the town of Zawiyah, a strategically vital staging post 30 miles west of Tripoli, on the coastal road connecting the Libyan capital with Tunisia.

(21) The Moon could then become the space equivalent of a service station – acting as a staging post for manned missions to Mars.

(22) But we must go further. 2015 is only a staging post on a much longer journey.

(23) Finding water nearby would not only reduce the cost and complexity of setting up a lunar colony, but would also help it become a staging post for future trips further into space.