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a beginning from which an enterprise is launched
reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions
he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own
the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out
How To Use jumping-off point In A Sentence
- Lectoure is a bustling market town and the best jumping-off point for a first visit to Le Gers.
- A funicular railway scales the mountain to the jumping-off point for the sledge run, which winds five kilometres downhill back to the railway terminus.
- They were sprawled nonchalantly, legs akimbo, across the precarious rock pathway that led to my jumping-off point.
- Years are a landmark of development and also a new jumping-off point.
- From that jumping-off point, the plot hits hairpin turns, sudden cliff drops and delirious loops of logic and technology.
- Well, nominally anyway: in fact, comics Matt Crosby, Tom Parry and Ben Clark use the credit crunch as little more than a jumping-off point for their usual overstuffed ragbag of imaginative, larger-than-life sketch comedy. This week's new comedy
- reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions
- Ultimately, this report is merely a jumping-off point for further exploration, collaboration when possible, and deeper understanding of the changes affecting every business and organization.
- Using his daughter's case as a jumping-off point, he described a justice system that ignores the rights of the victim.
- The source photographs are a jumping-off point for their strategies of intervention, and the pair's renditions of media images are direct and physical.