"fundamental starting point" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use this phrase when you want to refer to a basic point from which something else is built, developed, or considered. For example, "Understanding the fundamentals of grammar is the fundamental starting point for learning how to write."
The "no humiliation" requirement ought to be the fundamental starting point for political reflection.
The Qurʾān was the fundamental starting point for Islamic law (Sharīʿah), including the law of slavery.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
In the project's description, Nicolai states that unicolor builds on past projects univrs/uniscope version (2010) and unidisplay (2012), citing the work of Johann W. von Goethe, Hermann von Helmholtz, Werner Heisenberg, Wilhelm Ostwald, and Eckhard Bendin as "fundamental starting points" for unicolor, and acknowledging influences by artists Josef Albers and Johannes Itten.
We begin by discussing some aspects of the context for teaching public health ethics that were important in our deliberations on why and how to engage in such teaching: and which formed fundamental starting points in the development of our framework.
The decision by the committee mainly responsible and by Parliament as a whole to make the Community Charter of Fundamental Rights the starting point for these reports was therefore a good one.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION WON'T HAPPEN IN 2011 People who think big about the future of California agree that fundamental political change is a key starting point.
The proposed design methodology was developed by taking as a starting point the fundamental concepts on which the Theory of Critical Distances (TCD) is based.
