So the ISS's value for science and even as a staging post for deep space travel is not clear-cut.
They believed in it, with the single market but a staging post.
Turkish leaders say bluntly that they will not tolerate Syria again becoming a staging post for PKK operations, and have sent reinforcements to the border.
In fact, the Commonwealth Games, originally an image-improving project for the city, have now become merely a staging post in a vast urban renewal scheme.
Berlin is no longer a big staging post on the road to the Oscars, now that the Academy Awards are held only a few days later.
One pictures this silent necropolis suddenly bursting to life as a chaotic staging post on the well-travelled route to purgatory and paradise.
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It seemed as if India's state-dominated system might not be a staging-post towards full liberalisation but instead the end destination.
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No Spanish government would agree to abandon its claim to Gibraltar: from that point of view, a deal with Britain would be merely a staging-post on the road to outright sovereignty.
To find the body's secret weapon, scientists remove cells from a lymph node - a part of the circulation system used by immune cells, but which also often forms a "staging post" for cancer as it spreads around the body.
And it was in Bandera that the Great Western Trail began, and with it the cult of the cowboy: 300, 000 head of longhorn cattle, most rustled from Mexico, herded through its broad main street every year in the 1870s and '80s, a last staging post to stock up on liquor and chilli brick before the long, hard ride to Dodge City, Kansas.
Accordingly, he started a concert series called KnightSounds two years ago, involving contemporary composers, theatrical staging and a post-concert performance of nonclassical music.
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On Friday morning, the colonel returned to the staging area, where his staff had set up a forward command post -- a tent and a series of antennas in the compound yard of an abandoned three-room house with barrel-vault ceilings made of mud brick.
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The championships are an important staging post ahead of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi in a year's time.
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