The phrase "a different starting point" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing an alternative perspective, approach, or method that differs from the usual or expected one.
Example: "In order to solve this problem effectively, we need to consider a different starting point than what we have used in the past."
Alternatives: "an alternative beginning" or "a new baseline".
It's the same race with a different starting point".
The organizers subsequently chose a different starting point for the bar crawl.
But the Republicans aren't just choosing a different starting point from the White House: They're trying to have it both ways.
Ah, say the salesmen, take a different starting point, such as January 2001, and prices for nearly every segment of the art market have risen at annual double-digit rates particularly, in the largest market, New York.
The US, of course, approached the negotiation of resolution 1441 from a different starting point because, as I explained in paragraph 9 above, they have always taken the view that "material breach" is a matter of objective fact and does not require a Security Council determination.
It is not clear, though, whether a different starting point will truly "recalibrate" these workers' long-term career aspirations — that is, whether their newfound paths will stick, or if they will jump to more lucrative careers when jobs are more plentiful.
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While British social anthropologists were focused on the existence of social rules and the ways in which members of different societies acted within a given framework of ideas and categories, French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss Lévi-Straussifferent starting point.
That three vastly different approaches converge onto very similar conclusions would seem to be an important validation of our topological hypothesis, which arose from a completely different starting point.
This strikes me as a radically different starting point than wanting to be the main attraction.
The irony, though, is that the French policies, from a very different starting point, have ended up at much the same place.
