Sentence examples for merely a starting point from inspiring English sources

This, however, was merely a starting point.

Technical skills are merely a starting point, the bare minimum.

The big caveat is that list prices are merely a starting point for backroom negotiations.

It will poison the political atmosphere if presidential elections, in particular, come to be seen as merely a starting point for litigation.

He acknowledged that "The Master" was directly, if loosely, inspired by the early career of L. Ron Hubbard but emphasized that Scientology was merely a starting point, and that he knew very little about the organization as it is today.

To be fair, U.S. News cautions that its national ratings reflect how hospitals perform in treating "technically challenging" cases and that the list is merely a starting point after which "patients have to do their own research".

This is not, of course, intended as a comprehensive list, but merely as a starting point for a discourse on poverty.

The AJC piece calls for using the New York model merely as a starting point but fails to consider the fact that the problem of poverty, in its multiple dimensions, goes far beyond the scope of any one national office, real or imagined.

Some of the new Japanese restaurants use sushi merely as a starting point, and others don't use it at all.

Switzerland's decision to hold its big international banks to a higher standard could alarm some in the industry, who have expressed fear that countries will use the so-called Basel III proposals merely as a starting point to impose onerous new requirements on banks.

These preparatory recommendations merely provide a starting point in what we believe needs to be an ongoing discussion.