Sentence examples for helpful start from inspiring English sources

Barclays call this savings account the "helpful start" account – two words which, in this context, I can't help but read in a really posh voice that gradually turns into a sinister laugh.

It might not save Afghanistan, but it could be a helpful start to saving Pakistan.

At Barclays, families must put at least 10% of the purchase price into a Helpful Start account and keep their money there for three years.

Barclays, for example, offers a Family Springboard mortgage which would help you get a 95% mortgage if you were able to put down a 5% deposit and your father could pay the equivalent of 10% of the purchase price of the property into its Helpful Start savings account and leave it untouched for at least three years.

For private remarks made at an off-the-record social function to have found their way so quickly into the public domain is not a helpful start; when the subject involves the sensitive issue of the England captaincy still technically in the possession of Chris Robshaw, it makes life trickier still.

He has been a habitual visitor to the Yasukuni war shrine in Tokyo that is held to symbolise Japan's lack of contrition over its 20th-century history, and is on record as having questioned the legitimacy of the Tokyo war-crimes trials of 1946-48.Simply not being Mr Koizumi will be a helpful start.

Stigmatizing religions is not a helpful starting point.

This analysis is a helpful starting point to unpick the rhetorical positions of Tony Abbott and Kevin Rudd.

We hope this book will prove a helpful starting-point for those who wish learn more about this crucial aspect of modern life.

I picked people's brains about what they did and how they thought, and it was just a really helpful starting point.

The Friends of Algonquin Park, a nonprofit group, operates a useful Web site, www.algonquinpark.on.ca, which sells a map and brochure, "Canoe Routes of Algonquin Park," for $3.55, a helpful starting point for anyone planning a trip to Algonquin's interior.