Sentence examples for official starting point from inspiring English sources

After departing southward from the official starting point of Ushant, France, she set speed records to the Equator, the Cape of Good Hope, and Cape Leeuwin, Australia.

After getting some important documents at the official starting point, Bethesda Fountain in Central Park, 22 determined people grab their luggage and rush to make a flight.

In the early morning light, our group of hikers climb into a small boat that carries us across the bay to Denmans Cove, the walk's official starting point.

After landing in Santiago, Chile, via New York City, they drove fifteen hundred miles south, through Chile, to Ushuaia, Argentina, to catch the Ocean Diamond boat headed to Antarctica, which will be the official starting point of their voyage.

This version of Beowulf doesn't give a good name to either poetry or civilization, though it reminds us that willful acts of self-creation lie at the root of both — which in turn helps explain the poem's status as the official starting point of English literature.

It is also the official starting point for the Jesus Trail.

Glasgow has won the right to act as one of the official starting points for the Monte Carlo rally, to mark its centenary year.

When White House officials started pointing out to reporters recent remarks by the Republican leader, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, that he wished Republicans had been able to obstruct more, Mr. McConnell's office fired off e-mails standing behind the remarks.

Within a few days after the first report, U.S. Department of Agriculture officials started pointing out that the new virus had never been found in pigs, says Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and government officials started "veering away" from the term swine flu.

SCAG officials said the study is a starting point for officials to create a regional system, adding that they expect Los Angeles' airport agency to take the lead in encouraging airlines to spread flights among the agency's three commercial airports: LAX, Ontario and Palmdale.

UC wisely backed away from the definition, but Napolitano promised to ask the regents to consider a broader statement opposing intolerance "including, but not limited to, anti-Semitism". The result is this new statement of principles, which UC officials emphasize is a starting point for discussion, not a code of conduct or a replacement for current disciplinary policies.