Take off or begin

Usage examples of launching.

Professor Agrest, a Russian physicist, also maintains that a strange rock platform in Lebanon, whose origin and original purpose have baffled archeologists and geologists for several years, was constructed by aliens as a launching pad.

Perhaps Professor Agrest would regard it as another launching platform for nuclear rockets.

Launching the words at her like so many spears, he shattered her dream of the loving parent as surely as Nhaille had botched her plan of escape.

The dominatrix fingered the cleft of the climaxing girl, probing the hot sphincter and launching Chloe into renewed spasms of delight.

Holding his weapon a little tighter, Codd checked to make double sure there was a high-explosive shell in the launching chamber before moving past the stain.

He moved to Cairo as a young man and learned the European tongues in order to be able to support himself by working as a dragoman, while quietly launching his study of hieroglyphs between backstairs assignations with tourists.

The minority that he would force to continue on their old projects would probably be apologetic to the lucky ones launching into the new fluidized techniques.

Myles and Gascoyne were engaged in defending the passage-way between their two cots against the attack of three other lads, and Myles held his sheepskin coverlet rolled up into a ball and balanced in his hand, ready for launching at the head of one of the others so soon as it should rise from behind the shelter of a cot.

Board for the Regulation of Space Hazards turned out for the launching of the Jansky Singularity Station.

Firms can create and capture value from their new technology in three basic ways: through incorporating the technology in their current businesses, through licensing the technology to other firms, or through launching new ventures that exploit the technology in new business arenas.

Launching the two torpedoes, he paddled across the narrow but rough channel, intending to plant the torpedoes for future use.

He readied two torpedos and raised a rocket into position for launching.

In addition, the Israeli government has stressed that any American military operation will have to take maximum measures to prevent Saddam from launching Scuds and air strikes at Israel, and this means a large ground presence in western Iraq.

Ideally, we would also deploy a light or air mobile division to western Iraq to try to prevent Saddam from launching Scuds at Israel and to pressure him from the west.

This would probably rule out deploying ground forces to prevent Baghdad from launching Scuds against Israel or from attacking the Kurds.