The phrase "starting point from which" can be used in written English.
It is typically used to indicate the initial or foundational point from which something is being measured or considered. Here is an example: "The decision to expand the company's product line was based on the starting point from which customer demand was projected to increase."
"Now we have a starting point from which to proceed," he said.
It was the starting point from which the surveyor Thomas Hutchins struggled to map the territory in mile-square sections.
For such people, a stopgap is often an unavoidable but essential starting point from which to begin a career.
Representative Jim Nussle, the Iowa Republican who is chairman of the House Budget Committee, called the president's budget "a great starting point from which to begin our work".
The DoJ will use this publicly available information as a starting point from which to contact local authorities, including police departments, medical examiners and other criminal justice departments.
This conventional cat-and-mouse game, of course, was merely the starting point from which "The Prisoner" plumbed issues of freedom, conformity, privacy and control.
That study has shown that the assessments are not sufficiently comparable to provide a fair starting point from which to measure pupil progress," a DfE spokesperson said.
This endeavour may not resolve these questions immediately, but it should provide a useful starting point from which future answers may emerge.
But sure enough, it looks as if Republicans have taken the offer as a sign of weakness, as a starting point from which they can bargain Obama down.
Manipulating such visual variables should provide a reasonable starting point from which to visualize educational data.
Bio-inspiration is a starting point from which to design engineering products by learning the secrets of living creatures.
