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Example sentences for: departure

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The history is so little known--and so fascinating--it could easily have served as this novel's point of departure, or the spine of a novel all its own.
The present work is a departure for him, for most of his earlier works have been reference books.
The Jakarta Post marked the departure of the last Indonesian troops from East Timor by describing Indonesia's 24-year war to keep control of the territory as "an historic error."
Robert G. Kaufman, in a long review in the Weekly Standard (which welcomes Buchanan's departure from the Republican Party), paints Buchanan as having gone over to the dark side: He's "a representative of one of the perpetual temptations of conservative thought."
And, I submit that the federal privacy law, governs the collection and use of personal data by federal agencies and which provides agencies a modicum of flexibility, is a reasonable point of departure for future discussions of either industry selfregulation or legislation.