"viable starting point" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to a feasible or practical place to begin a task or project. Example: "The team considered several options, but ultimately decided that John's proposal was the most viable starting point for our new marketing campaign."
However, slowing or stopping bacterial growth is not a viable starting point to treat healthy microbiota.
Creatively blocked, as I had been since the Times critic wrote a column about my last play, comparing it to typhus, I seized upon this tabloid nugget as a viable starting point for a Broadway pastiche that might just rake in the spinach required to subsidize the dementia I have planned for my golden years.
A trend toward qualitative rather than quantitative science; an implicit assumption that all targets represent a viable starting point for drug discovery efforts.
The fragments appear to mimic the A-ring of VD3 thereby providing viable starting points for synthetic expansion.
Ryan's budget, he says, is a viable centrist starting point for budget negotiations, and attacks from "left and right" are mere "partisan rhetoric".
In short, if a suspicion of entrapment seems a viable starting-point for a defense, forget it.
The mean number of steps before exiting the viable region was higher if the starting point corresponded to an architecture with a negative loop than to an architecture with an essential positive loop, or to a combination of essential positive and negative loops.
I think this is a viable proposal that ought to be the starting point for a real debate on tax reform.
In the first ellipsoid expansions the starting point will typically be a viable point obtained from OEAMC.
His starting point is the following: 'It is no longer viable to invoke the standards of social justice from a world where it was only the SPG that were directly under the control of the basic structure'.
The starting point will be taking stock of what's left and viable, from seed banks to soils.
