point of departure

Central to the fall in crossings to Italy are financial deals struck with Tunisia and Libya – migrants’ main points of departure.

“I want this to be a point of departure for both me and the viewer,” she said.

This comes back to Brooks’s original point of departure: the act of decomposing, or a whale fall.

In January, a 737 Max 9 was forced to return to its point of departure in Portland, Oregon, making an emergency landing after a door panel blew out in mid-air.

But Garrone is concerned with something that often escapes the headlines and statistics: the on-the-ground atrocities migrants endure to even reach that point of departure, including the traversing of a desert.