Sentence examples for public starting point from inspiring English sources

Another expert, Peter Bergen, a journalist who is completing a book on Mr. bin Laden, said the Saudi exile is only the best-known leader of the organization and the public starting point for a particular brand of transnational terrorism.

If our long-term strategy for public service had this starting point the coming age of austerity could also be one of great invention and progress.

Of course, even using public data as a starting point, gathering the data to make the model defensible is the harder part.

The historic marketplaces of Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market, and Boston Common (America's oldest public park and the starting point of Boston's Freedom Trail) are all within walking distance.

The app isn't abandoning the other areas completely, but treating expression as the "starting point": "Public expression leads to serendipitous meetings which leads to the desire to chat privately.

From that theocratic starting point, public policy gets built on certitude and hubris.

This discussion probably has to begin with Rawls, and from there it could follow any of a variety of routes that take public reason as a starting point.

Introducing a multidimensional concept of the etiology of obesity to the lay public might be a starting point in stigma reduction.

Except as a starting point for public discussion, the plans have little to recommend them.

We suffer from the loss of facts — a body of empirical information that American citizens can accept as a common starting point for public debate.

Participants — including the architect Alfredo Jaar, the filmmaker Barbara Hammer and the actress Kate Valk — will deconstruct the idea of Pasolini as artistic provocateur and public intellectual, taking as their starting point Fabio Mauri's "Intellettuale," a 1975 performance piece involving the projection of "The Gospel According to Saint Matthew" onto Pasolini's torso.