The big issue, to start with, was photographs.
"[Climate change stickers are] probably overkill and will get lost with all the white noise that's out there on the issue to start with," Scholten argued.
Dmitry continued, "many times I see people trying to correct the actual movements, when it's the preparation for it that leads up to the figures that are causing the issue to start with.
None of those voices who try to vilify Islam attempted to ask the same questions about Christianity, the religion of those who committed those crimes, which at any event should not be the issue to start with.
"My other principle is to start not with the most difficult issue, but to start with easier ones," he continued.
It is a good issue to start out with, since it seems unshakeable.
And what happens if the partner in a joint-venture goes bankrupt?Howard Kunreuther, a business professor at the Wharton School in Philadelphia, argues that this interdependency "is probably the most important issue to start thinking about with regard to risk".
"Those which are less developed across the world have to start with issues like sanitation, water quality and drainage, then as their systems become more sophisticated they can start thinking about things like food systems, green infrastructure and adapting their cities for all ages," she says.
Therefore, the learning objectives of cultural competence training may need to start with issues that care providers are aware of, to get their interest.
In his view the administration wasted a year and a half of diplomatic effort by pursuing the issue of Israeli settlement construction, when he felt it would have been more fruitful to start with other issues, notably disputes about security.
