The Qurʾān was the fundamental starting point for Islamic law (Sharīʿah), including the law of slavery.
The "no humiliation" requirement ought to be the fundamental starting point for political reflection.
For years, the fossil-fuel industry has labored to sell the idea that a transition to renewable energy would necessarily be painfully slow — that it would take decades before anything fundamental started to shift.
"Our fundamental starting point," he has written, "is that the temptation and pleasure of sweet, fatty, or salty foods arise actively within the brain, not just passively from physical properties of foods themselves.
Given this urgent need, language documentation is a fundamental starting point.
The first and fundamental starting point in the design of the new proposal for a classification system was, initially, to select the basic characteristic for patients' grouping.
In both strategic city planning and city marketing, a fundamental starting point is to evaluate the image of the city itself.
A 3D geologic model that accurately characterizes the spatial distribution of rock type, alteration, and structure of a geothermal system is the fundamental starting point for testing ideas about the locations of potential reservoir rocks and permeable fluid pathways.
An accurate geometrical representation of gear tooth surfaces is the fundamental starting point for developing a reliable computerized gear design which includes tooth contact analysis under light and heavy loads and stress analysis.
The cross-tabulation matrix is a fundamental starting point in the analysis of land change, but many scientists fail to analyze the matrix according to its various components and thus fail to gain as much insight as possible concerning the potential processes that determine a pattern of land change.
