This is a good starting point.

That is a good starting point.

And that became the baseline of what I was doing.

This belief was the point of departure for the study reported here.

That acknowledgement was the starting point for any solution to the refugee problem.

First, it must be understood that the EU and the US start from very different points in the race to reduce emissions. When the then 15 nation EU ratified the Kyoto Protocol, it pledged to cut CO2 emissions by 8 from 1990 levels by 2012.

Fortunately we had an informal discussion last Tuesday which clarified issues and was interesting and important concerning the agenda.

The Inspectors believe that the strategy developed is a sound starting point.

Mr. Amor's paper would provide a good starting point for further discussion of the question.

This summit should be seen as a starting point for the reform process.

The Millennium Development Goals are a minimum, not a maximum agenda a starting point, not the end.

But success in South Waziristan is only the starting point for dealing with the problem.

Identifying and remaining vigilant to the existence of disparities in health service coverage constitutes an important starting point.

The Book of Optics was an important stepping stone in the history of the scientific method and history of optics.

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Keeping Japan close is a starting point.

The Germans used it as a staging area for their attack on Stalingrad, and made it a key crossing point on the Don River.

The Hyogo strategy of the Kobe Conference and the Mauritius Strategy of January this year provide an excellent starting point.

And I want to make the point that as members of society, we need to.

A moratorium on conventional coal plants would be a smart place to start.

That period became the starting point in the emergence of most of the public associations, including women's non governmental organizations (NGOs).

Understanding the issue more deeply in this manner is an important starting point in the effort to resolve the problem.

The approach will be a major starting point in localizing the Millennium Development Goals, at the country and city levels.

policy should stress the special and differential treatment intended for LDCs. This could be a useful starting point and provide the context for policymaking and trade negotiations.

The underlying concept of draft article 3 constituted the point of departure of the whole set of draft articles.

Solomon Islands notes and supports the Summit Outcome (resolution 60 1) as a starting point for change.

We may come out back where we started, if we come out at all.

Europe has become ground zero for the biggest expansion of IMF lending and influence in years.

Annex 1 serves as a starting point for country relevant, cause specific, priority interventions that will expand as new evidence becomes available.

In that regard, the Monterrey Consensus was the starting point of the partnership for development between rich and poor countries.

Under that approach, national ownership was both the starting point and a key objective of the effort to enhance system wide coordination.

The US may be ground zero for the global financial crisis, but it is not the only country riven by self doubt.

US federal authorities have called Florida s tomato fields ground zero for modern day slavery.

The starting point for salaries for all civil servants is the same and is defined by the Bosnia and Herzegovina Council of Ministers.

That was the starting point of Principle 22 of the 1972 Stockholm Declaration and of Principle 13 of the 1992 Rio Declaration.

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Within a few years of its founding, the city became a launching point for the exploration and conquest of Peru and a transit point for gold and silver headed back to Spain through the Isthmus.

In 1917, Britain used Persia as the springboard for an attack into Russia in an unsuccessful attempt to reverse the Russian Revolution of 1917.

He noted that many members considered article 3 to be the point of departure of the whole draft and that it reflected the basic principle of continuity.

The sequence in the road map announced by interim President Adli Mansour is a good starting point first a constitution, then a parliament, and finally a president.

I have circulated to all UN members a draft of such a convention, which offers a good point of departure.

My country believes that the Declaration is a starting point towards taking major steps to protect human dignity and prevent its violation under any kind of interpretation.

The 13 practical steps adopted at the 2000 Review Conference should serve as a departure point.

It serves as the point of origin for all trains in the local VR commuter rail network, as well as for a large proportion of long distance trains in Finland.

But we certainly believe that they offer a good point of departure for the creative and innovative measures that are needed to reinvigorate the human rights machinery of the United Nations.