10 sentences with “launched”

The rocket successfully launched at dawn.

The communications satellite was successfully launched yesterday.

Taiwan has launched a $300 billion six-year plan to build highways, subways and power plants.

Eventually, the Romans altered their tactics and launched a guerrilla war against Hannibal inside Italy, harassing his forces.

In 1995 the police launched an anti-gun campaign and stationed 42 officers in a high-crime area normally policed by four; they confiscated 202 guns and made 94 arrests.

A general (then stationed in Britain) named Constantine, son of the Tetrarch Constantius, launched a military campaign to reunite Rome under his sole rule. By 312 AD he had succeeded, claiming full control and appointing no co-emperor.

Although he was never able to force all his subjects to conform to Christian orthodoxy (especially in rural regions far from the capital), Emperor Justinian launched a series of attacks and persecution campaigns against heretical sects.

In 43 BCE they took control in Rome and then launched a successful campaign against the old Republican loyalists, killing the men who had killed Caesar and assassinating the strongest senators and elites who had tried to restore the old institutions.

In 218 BC, the great Carthaginian general Hannibal (son of the most successful general who had fought the Romans in the First Punic War) launched a surprise attack in Spain against the Roman allies and then against the Roman forces themselves. This led to the Second Punic War (218 BCE - 202 BCE).

In 1352 they seized control of a key fortress near Constantinople, and from there launched an impressive series of invasions into Greece and the Balkans. In the process, Byzantium was reduced to a pitiful fragment of its former glory, clinging to the city of Constantinople and its hinterlands, but otherwise surrounded by Ottoman territories.