Usage of "jumping-off point"

A beginning from which an enterprise is launched.

Использование термина jumping-off point на английском

My previous experience with the space-time anomaly gave me a jumping-off point. 
 Emperor Mollusk Versus the Sinister Brain 

And so this off-season would appear to be the perfect jumping-off point. 
 The Guardian 

But the film serves only as a jumping-off point for the musical. 
 Reuters 

From this jumping-off point, everything that could possibly go wrong, of course, does. 
 Reuters 

It is already a prime jumping-off point for Africa's economic migrants. 
 The Guardian 

The battered women's shelter in West Jordan was my jumping-off point. 
 Escape 

O'Malley used that 1990 race for the Maryland state Senate as a jumping-off point. 
 The Guardian 

Several said they traveled to Brazil as a jumping-off point. 
 Reuters 

Just telling the awful story is like a jumping-off point.' 
 The Guardian 

It's a great guidebook and a great jumping-off point. 
 Reuters 

Any genre, any film, any book can be the jumping-off point for amazing creative work. 
 Gunn's golden rules 

He had bundled up the two kits and dumped them secretly in the jumping-off point. 
 King Rat 

One-underers tended to be quite predictable when it came to choosing their jumping-off point into oblivion. 
 Broken Homes 

Pete braced his hand on the desk and knew this was the jumping-off point for him. 
 Stolen heat 

It was unlikely ever to be known for anything but its utility as a jumping-off point. 
 Surrender to the will of the night 

With that jumping-off point, the movie certainly was capable of standing on its own two Blahniks. 
 Reuters 

Значения термина jumping-off point на английском