Yet as we proceed from puzzle to puzzle, encounter to encounter, the logic is less consequential than simply sequential.
"He leads a rather modest lifestyle, but nevertheless we proceed from the tone of statements that come from the US state department and other political figures," he said.
"We proceed from the assumption that all parties will show restraint in the nearest future, before the start of the ceasefire," Putin said.
"We proceed from the fact that Russia and the US bear special responsibility for supporting international peace and stability, and for counteracting global challenges and threats".
"The responsibility rests with you on how we proceed from here," Mr. Counter told guild negotiators, according to a copy of his remarks provided by the alliance.
"We proceed from the point of view that Germany and France, other colleagues in the EU and the United States … work with the Ukrainian authorities, encouraging them to honestly fully implement the Minsk agreements," he told a press conference.
"We proceed from the position that work in the post-conflict development of Libya must be carried out exclusively under the aegis of the U.N. Security Council," said Russia's foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich.
"We proceed from the fact that the solution to this problem will make unnecessary any strike on the Syrian Arab Republic, and I am convinced that our American colleagues, as President Obama stated, are firmly convinced that we should follow a peaceful way of resolution to the conflict in Syria".
"He returned to this topic a couple of times, so we let our American colleagues know that we do not want to impose, but we also do not want to be impolite, and that considering that President Trump made this proposal, we proceed from the position that he will make it concrete," Lavrov said, according to an interview transcript posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry's Web site.
That is to say, we proceed from the first-person point of view.
