1 The rocket lifted off from its launching pad.

2 Ellington's band was a launching pad for many gifted jazz musicians.

3 The spaceship will lift off from the launching pad at 7 a.m.

4 However, for such publishers,[] the launching pad is there if they wish to see and use it.

5 Designers' Saturday has traditionally been used as a launching pad for designs and this year is no exception.

6 The rocket lifted off from the launching pad.

7 The traditional launching pad for new model media events are remote, vacation-oriented resorts with ample space, uncrowded roads and few distractions.

8 It was the launching pad for a media career that has made her one of the highest-paid people on British TV.

9 Such excerpts are important because they provide a highly visible launching pad.

10 The Ares I-X rocket is poised to launch on a suborbital test flight on Oct. 27 and rolled out to its launching pad earlier this week.

11 Late Monday afternoon, reading the obscure and intricate markings, they identified a launching pad.

12 Could this mountain metropolis be the third stop and final launching pad of the ascendency of a major civilizational power?

13 To launch a rocket is to send it up from its launching pad.

14 Our purpose is clear: By preventing the Taliban from reestablishing a stranglehold over the Afghan people, we will deny al Qaeda the safe haven that served as a launching pad for 9/11.

15 Iran state television showed the missile being fired from a launching pad in a desert region.

1 The rocket lifted off from its launching pad.