It takes as its point of departure the fact that water is a scarce natural resource.

Some of his stories take simple expressions as their starting point.

This project takes as its starting point the fundamental tendency of people to seek explanations for events.

If you take 2002 as your point of reference then temperatures have plateaued.

Historians took Lenin's ideas as their point of departure and model.

Members of the original project team took as their starting point the anticipated health care needs of the society in the 1990s.

It is about acting from the heart and taking the company as one's point of departure.

Let us instead take Athenian culture and democracy as our starting point.

That is where we have to discharge this responsibility, but not by taking the excessive profits of oil companies as our starting point.

I was also surprised that the Commission proposal took the internal market as its starting point.