jumping-off point

His critics said that Fujimori’s return was a gamble that Chile wouldn’t extradite him and that he could use Peru’s neighbor as a jumping-off point for another presidential bid.

Many had fled to Indonesia as a jumping-off point hoping to eventually reach Australia by boat, but are now stuck in what feels like an endless limbo.

Here Powell and Linklater use the real story of one Gary Johnson as a playful jumping-off point in a tale that starts out as someone needing a second job.

The first objective was to capture Messines Ridge south of Ypres and use it as a jumping-off point for the main push toward the Belgian coast.

The news of the tuba thefts formed a jumping-off point for the artist Alison O’Daniel, who used it as the central hub in a wheel with many spokes.