Though Thanksgiving leftovers provide you with an ideal place to start, the principles I have raised here should apply to every meal you prepare.
"Well, let's start with the principle that sexual assault is an outrage; it is a crime," President Obama said.
"I wanted to start with the principle of literature and poetry being at the heart of the festival", he explains.
In order to be off-grid, they will start from the principle of using as little energy as possible.
"I start on the principle that it will work," he said of his attitude toward working with new French artists.
"We start with the principle that each of these eggs is an individual member of the human species," said Douglas Johnson of the National Right to Life Committee.
But start accepting the principle of "privileged" information - legal for some to possess and use, illegal for others - and the sphere of acceptable activism shrinks dramatically.
But Mr. Rachid said the Palestinians wanted the Israelis to stop thinking of it as their land to give away and to start accepting the principle that the Palestinians have a rightful claim to the West Bank.
"We are just at the beginning of the second phase of the search, and we do not start from the principle that this phase will not be successful," she said.
If we start with the principle of equal advancement of interests, we will want to know what it implies.
