Still, the long-awaited Senate plan is significant as a starting point for lawmakers who are increasingly talking about trying to complete legislation in the first three months of 2010.
Therefore, the exact influence of the different predictors in the models can not be precisely stated and the models presented have the primary function of identifying significant influences as a starting point for further analysis.
Royce was only 45 years old, though, and this culmination proved also to be a starting point for significant growth.
We anticipate that the methods and results presented here are a starting point for significant future investigation toward quantifying the implications of different mechanisms of cell death on population and tissue scale behavior.
Searching a statistically significant interaction can be the starting point for further measurements and modeling to advance the understanding of underlying mechanisms and non-additive interactions occurring inside the organisms.
I've gone down this road before, suggesting that the story is the equivalent of a musical melody or an architectural framework: a basis, not a goal; an element that may either be charmingly memorable or ingeniously conceived, but that is merely a starting point for a significant work, not a result.
In a comparison of the subscales and the summary measures in both groups upon study entry there were no significant differences, thus providing an optimal starting point for measuring the impact of PC on HRQoL.
Nick Clegg has made the Liberal Democrat priority very clear – a significant acceleration of planned increases in the starting point for paying income tax.
During one of his classes, he was asked to write a scene that ended up being the starting point for "Undertow" — with one significant difference.
The significant SNPs identified here could be used as a starting point for biologists developing genetic tests that indicate increased risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis.
