starting point

Maher sees the holiday season as the starting point of any national reconciliation, figuring that we can't possibly unify the country until we unify our dining room tables.

He hopes his team’s findings “may serve as a starting point for other researchers when identifying these structures in other archaeological sites.”

The best-performing lipids are then used as starting points for generating another round of molecular variants, and so on, until only high-performing variants remain.

That Charles is, at least to begin with, what Julie calls “the best option in a sea of not very good options,” is of course the point, and the starting point.

The starting point for the proposed Chuckwalla monument is Painted Canyon, an area near the eastern edge of the Coachella Valley where the mountainside is stained deep red, pink, green and gray.