It takes its starting point from Allport's (1954) contact hypothesis, which says that contact and sharing promote mutual acceptance under conditions of equality, and initiate a process of prejudice redution and knowledge formation.
Taking its starting point as the already likeable C4, Citroën polled its customers and found they wanted "more useful technology, reduced costs and more design".
The film takes its starting point from a John F Kennedy speech in which he said that accident, miscalculation or madness were all that separated the world from the disastrous detonation of a nuclear bomb.
This procedure took its starting point in each child's situation and individual needs.
Cf. J. Seifert, "Si Deus est Deus, Deus est" 218, for whom the argument takes its "starting point in the objective essence and not in a mere concept of God".
Epic poetry in Homeric times takes its starting point from a world which constituted a closed totality (1916: 33), that is, a world in which life, culture, meaning, action and social institutions formed a harmonious whole.
The case study takes its starting point in the perspective of an actor considering how to develop vehicle maintenance services for its customers and points at the need to enable understanding of the conditions for vehicle maintenance, which necessitates identification and analysis of the variety across transport service settings.
The paper takes its starting point in traditional procedures for product development (idea, analysis, goal definition, concept development and detail development) and shows step by step how the environmental properties of the new product can be optimised and thus contribute to the overall competitiveness of the new product.
The Maertens study takes its starting point from the question how 1-methyl-4-phenyl-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) exerts its toxicity.
"My Life as a Fake" does more than take its start from a historical literary hoax; its central theme and its dominant metaphor are paper, amid the papery passions of the writers and editors who are its principal characters.
