"from a different side" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is being seen or considered from a different perspective or vantage point. For example, "After hearing his opinion, she looked at the problem from a different side and began to understand his point of view."
It was Navarro's second pinch homer in two days, from a different side of the plate.
Courtroom Attire Mr. Moussaoui enters the courtroom for each session at the same time as Judge Brinkema enters from a different side door and spectators are ordered to stand.
"He has an interesting background for this company because he grew up in wholesale, he spent many years selling to Barneys, so he knows Barneys from his early life, from a different side," said Harold D. Reiter, chairman and chief of Herbert Mines Associates, which did the search.
(The latter included a pair of couplets set off in alternating lines, one on the left about getting his monkey to do the dog atop a lumberjack log, the other on the right, about joining Ingmar Bergman in singing "Blowing in the Wind," written out as if each couplet was coming in from a different side of a set of earphones).
David Moyes hails from a different side of the River Clyde to Sir Alex Ferguson but they have both ended up at the final destination of Manchester United and Old Trafford.
"All the information we obtained is from a different side and not through the United States".
"But hidden, concealed from the public, was a different side, a side that committed crimes".
Quique Flores, the new Watford manager, saw a different side from Everton's purists.
They're certainly a different side from what I've played against.
But get them away from these familiar scripts, and a different side emerges.
It will be a battle of heartland imagery as Mr. Kerry tries to show a different side from the urban, liberal Northeasterner so often caricatured by his Republican opponents -- to show rural voters that "he looks like them, talks like them, and cares about them," as John Norris, his national field director (who hails from Iowa), puts it.
