Sentence examples for starting point rather than from inspiring English sources

These principles are meant as a starting point rather than a final plan.

For now, we still need fields like psychology and psychiatry, which take the mind as their starting point, rather than the brain, to complement neuroscience.

By choosing an anonymous lampshade as his starting point rather than something designerly, Laarman has created the design equivalent of Miuccia Prada's Crombie-style coat.

"For most travelers, the air fare is now the starting point rather than the end point in calculating what your trip cost will be," said Henry Harteveldt, an analyst at Forrester Research.

Mr. Sharon has repeatedly said he will make "painful concessions" for peace, adding that he cannot reveal them because they will then become the starting point, rather than the ending point, for negotiations.

Anna Finocchiaro, the leader of the center-left Democratic Party in the Senate, said the measures were positive but also called them a "starting point, rather than one of arrival," noting that for young people, access to the so-called closed professions was still limited.

These are all writers who see the genre conventions as starting points rather than limitations, who refuse to recognize that supposed boundary between genre and literary.

Alexandrina Buchanan in "Cardiff and Miller's Road Trip" says that the material fragments of archives are "crying out for human interpretation, which represent creative starting points rather than the closed records of completed actions" (Archivaria 73, pg. 21).

The author of "The Trespasser" likes crime writers who see "genre conventions as starting points rather than limitations, who refuse to recognize that supposed boundary between genre and literary".

He and his staff won't discuss tactics, but you can sense some of his starting points: Rather than waste time haggling over a formal settlement freeze or other confidence-building measures, he got both sides to make unannounced concessions.

"His ideas are starting points rather than finished thoughts, so he didn't feel the need to play out all their possibilities," said Maltz.