Sentence examples for mere starting point from inspiring English sources

What's important about Yelp is not the star rating affixed to a restaurant — that's a mere starting point — but the site's sheer volume of reviews and the breadth of its reach.

While traditional commentators were still debating whether Teresa Heinz Kerry had gone too far with her "shove it" remark to the editorial page editor of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the boisterous cyberrabble saw the comment as a mere starting point in arguments with the right.

View this as a mere starting point to build upon.

Sounds like a sad story, but the child's play was a mere starting point for a successful career in writing.

If Hume's remark is going to turn out to be a mere starting point, where in the name of all that's holy (really holy, genuinely holy) is the finishing line going to find us?

Similarly, while his Steve Jobs film is officially based on Walter Isaacson's biography, Sorkin used it as a mere starting point, and it took him a year to interview Jobs's colleagues, competitors and family.

A recurring refrain among Mr. Malick's collaborators was the degree to which his scripts are mere starting points, extensively revised, even discarded, once shooting begins.

They consider natural proteins mere starting points for drug development, reasoning that a drug, which is treating an abnormal situation (ie, a disease), may thus need to produce an abnormal effect.

More than enough time to reach BC Place, a mere 110 miles from our starting point.

Cf. J. Seifert, "Si Deus est Deus, Deus est" 218, for whom the argument takes its "starting point in the objective essence and not in a mere concept of God".

Ryan's budget, he says, is a viable centrist starting point for budget negotiations, and attacks from "left and right" are mere "partisan rhetoric".