The phrase "a clear starting point" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a specific and unambiguous beginning or foundation for a discussion, project, or process.
Example: "To ensure the success of our project, we need to establish a clear starting point for our research and development efforts."
Alternatives: "a definite beginning" or "an obvious foundation".
Engineering is a clear starting point: sanitation, shelter and supply lines are all essential in any crisis.
But given both a clear starting point in the latest ConAgra offer and the high risks of the Post spinoff, silence isn't golden, according to I.S.S.
"I regard it as the responsibility of the senior judiciary to give guidance and it will be guidance that is not merely, 'Well, it all depends,' but starting from a clear starting point giving fairly reasonable guidance as to what should happen.
Insofar as one takes pure wave mechanics to provide a clear starting point for addressing the quantum measurement problem, one might find such alternatives naturally compelling.
In contrast, non-stop onsets (specifically, [x m l]) have a clear starting point and are unlikely to be under-measured.
In a subsequent step, SB and the author together selected 14 sibilants on an auditory basis and arranged them to a continuum from a clear starting point through 10 auditorily similarly sized steps to a clear [s] endpoint.
One clear starting point is to see the truth of the epidemic -- it is spreading and its victims, more and more, are girls and women," Ms. Bellamy said.
"During an ongoing crisis, like war or epidemic, Safety Check in its current form is not that useful for people: because there isn't a clear start or end point and, unfortunately, it's impossible to know when someone is truly 'safe'," said vice-president of growth Alex Schultz in a post at the time.
The shown sample queries translated with the VCCL, are modularized as systems, which means that they have a clear start and end point.
