The Maginot Line was, from the standpoint of the troops, a tremendous advance over previous fortifications.
Another way to look at this matter is from the standpoint of cost.
It's also not hard to show how wrong the claim is from the standpoint of safety.
He left, he said, convinced "that there was only one place to be, from the standpoint of science as well as from the standpoint of faith".
Many of his judicial nominations remain troubling, and divisive, just as Judge Pickering was, from the standpoint of their records in protecting mainstream rights.
But the atonement will not be understood in such abstract and speculative terms; it is from the standpoint of humanity as the growing family of God that the atonement is to be understood.
A change in an object which improves the fit between its actual and intended character is, from the standpoint of the author's intentions, a progressive change.
These could be from the standpoint of the investor (a central bank, insurance company, or mutual fund, for example), a Wall Street dealer, a global bank, or a hedge fund.
For Arendt the validity of political judgment depends on our ability to think "representatively," that is, from the standpoint of everyone else, so that we are able to look at the world from a number of different perspectives.
There is, however, a second, more elaborated view of judgment which does not restrict it to moments of crisis, but which identifies it with the capacity to think representatively, that is, from the standpoint of everyone else.
