Lee had opened the ball by taking the initiative himself, and was about to try the strength of our position.
The initiative and referendum are advocated, because "they are unquestionably proving effective in breaking down some of the privileges and monopolies that have characterized political organizations for many years.
If the worker abandons strikes as an unworthy means of bringing about desirable conditions, it simply means that employers must get busy on their own initiative and correct defective conditions.
The best results can and will be brought about by individual initiative and ingenuity--by intelligent individual leadership.
I showed him Seward's dispatch and fired him with the desire of distinguishing himself by taking the initiative in the work of humanity.
Commodore Steedman, her commander, was an old friend, and, hearing at Trieste of the insurrection, came on his own initiative to give me the support my government had not thought worth its while to accord me.
The initiativeand referendum were introduced, each settlement having the right to propose legislation, and acts of the general court were referred to the towns for ratification or rejection.
In the other categories, there is the need for seizing the initiative and applying con-temporaneous force to achieve Shock and Awe.
We then attain control of the initiative through superior speed, knowledge, and capacity to act and react.
The two chambers acquired the initiativein legislation, which had not been recognized as theirs under the Restoration, but from this time on belonged to them equally with the king.
The second assembly was the Corps Legislatif, elected by direct universal suffrage for six years, which passed the laws, the government having the initiative in legislation.
His power of initiative in poetry was very small, and the range of poetic ground which he could cover strictly limited.
The Commission may take any useful initiative to promote the co- ordination referred to in paragraph 1.
It may issue an opinion on its own initiative in cases in which it considers such action appropriate.
The Commission may, in close co-operation with the Member States, take any useful initiative to promote such co- ordination.
The Commission may, in close contact with the Member States, take any useful initiative to promote such co- ordination.
The Council may: - on the initiative of any Member State or of the Commission, in the areas referred to in Article K.
In close co-operation with the Member States, the Commission may take any usefulinitiative to promote the co-ordination referred to in paragraph 1.
The Council, acting unanimously on the initiative of the Commission or a Member State, may decide to apply Article 100c of the Treaty establishing the European Community to action in areas referred to in Article K.
In particular, the Member State shall not have devalued its currency's bilateral central rate against any other Member State's currency on its own initiative for the same period.
The community cannot rise much above the level of the individual home, and the home rises only by the pull of the community regulations, or by the initiative of a few especially farsighted individuals.
To the women of America has come an opportunity to put their education, their power of detailed work, and any initiative they may possess at the service of the State.
As Johnson applied his theory, there was littleinitiative left to the people.
Having created by the pardoning power a political people, he expected the initiative to come from them.
Rwanda continues to receive substantial amounts of aid money and was approved for IMF-World Bank Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative debt relief in late 2000.
In other words, civilized business, business with joy in it and personal initiative and human interest in the work itself, is going to drive uncivilized plodding half-hearted business out of the markets of the world.
Believing that upon his taking the initiative and seeking a divorce, Mrs. Saltus would strike back and secure it herself, Mr. Saltus brought a suit against her, asking at the same time for the custody of his little daughter.
He thought that a man not worth changing for a hat was not worth keeping at all, and after a year's residence he could take the initiative in the matter,--hat or no hat.
You can have a Hull House established by private initiative and maintained by individual genius, just as you had planters who freed their slaves or as you have employers to-day who humanize their factories.
He begins with an account of La Follette--of a man with initiative and a constructive bent.
We have, it seems, been seduced by a fictitious analogy: we have hoped for machine regularity when we needed human initiative and leadership, when life was crying that its inventive abilities should be freed.
Personal initiative and individual genius are poorly regarded: many socialists are suspicious of originality.
They knew these things were achieved through initiative that burst through formal restrictions, and they applauded wildly.
If socialism will destroy initiative then only a doctrinaire would desire it.
The initiative and referendum will help: they are a method of voting on definite issues instead of electing an administration in bulk.
You hear it said that the initiative and referendum are a return to the New England town meeting.
At least, the partisans of governmental initiativewill say, you will admit that, in the accomplishment of the revolution promised by the development of antinomies, power would be a potent auxiliary.
Now, I say that the presence of evil, far from giving evidence of fatality, breaks fatality, does violence to destiny, and supposes a cause whose erroneous but voluntary initiative is in discordance with the law.
Now, to solicit the government to take such an initiative is to imitate the peasants who, on seeing the approach of a storm, begin to pray to God and to invoke their saint.
Fourier's system of the formation of groups on the basis of the free initiative of the individual might be attempted without taking the State into account at all?
It assumes, moreover, that pleasure in activity and its resulting power of originality and invention would not be weakened if men's right of initiative were taken from them and their needs determined by others.
Is this condition of depravity and inability of self-initiative due to "race traits and tendencies?
But the Prophet's implied command was strong enough to induce initiative and hardihood in the small attacking party.
Finally, Mahomet determined to essay upon his own initiative some means of subtlety whereby he might force back this encompassing foe that hourly threatened his whole dominion.
Nor are the initiative and the expenditure left wholly to local enterprises.
This is a sufficiently important duty to occupy all the spare time of a committee, even where the initiative is taken by the librarian, and appeal on doubtful points is made to the full board.
It never even occurred to him that a lady could so far step from the confines of convention as to take the initiative in a matter of affection.
And if she is free in theory, why not free to undertake if necessary theinitiative in a matter so momentous to herself?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "initiative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
