launching pad

Then the pope is expected to get to the real work of tough reform, using the summit as a launching pad.

Getting elected to statewide office here is a big launching pad for national politics.

The New Deal was the launching pad for the Washington largesse as we know it today.

The campaign could serve as national launching pad for Clark, currently a state senator.

First of all, the job is an awful launching pad for the White House.

Nowhere was there any sign of a launching pad, with its gantries and cranes and jet baffles.

The first sunshine glinted on the two rockets and their single, attendant gantry tower, waiting on the launching pad.

The ship stood tall and straight on her launching pad, with the afternoon sunlight glinting on her hull.

"You'll get used to it," Tiger Martin chuckled as they waited for the jitney to take them across to the launching pad.

It is the assembly plant of Volkswagen and the export launching pad of other multinationals.