Synonym: enterprise, enterprisingness, first, first step, go-ahead, inaugural, initiatory, maiden, opening, opening move. Similar words: initiate, initial, initially, cognitive, administrative, definition, negotiation, sensitive. Meaning: [ɪ'nɪʃɪətɪv] n. 1. readiness to embark on bold new ventures 2. the first of a series of actions. adj. serving to set in motion.
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121. Hutchinson is constrained by an Arkansas ballot initiative in his state to vote only for the term-limit measure voters there approved.
122. Life gives up those who lack the desire, initiative and will to fight for a better life, and does not help those who leave their lives to luck, destiny or fate. Dr T.P.Chia
123. This gives 1 extra attack, worked out immediately prior to hand-to-hand combat regardless of initiative levels or which side charged.
124. And both boys and girls with involved fathers demonstrate a greater ability to take initiative and direct themselves.
125. Major, for his part, praised Clinton's initiative to airlift humanitarian aid to Bosnia.
126. Supporters must collect enough signatures by Feb. 21 to qualify the initiative for the ballot.
127. If the council wanted a major new initiative, it would appropriate additional money.
128. Yet for lack of personnel, funds, and initiative, Bolshevik Party members were not making sufficient capital out of the situation.
129. Some backers of the initiative feared that a lifetime ban would make the measure easier to overturn later.
130. However, the Soviet initiative attracted only marginal support from the states in the region.
131. Behind this report is a determination by the Board to take and hold the initiative over its constituent members.
132. Also too often they broke away only to lose the initiative by letting the cockney donkeys get back.
133. An initiative was now expected to amend to the relevant Article 18 of the federal constitution.
134. Even some analysts who have serious reservations about enlargement cite a potential credibility problem if the initiative is halted.
135. Even some single-payer adherents say it would be miraculous if the initiative wins voter approval.
136. And somehow-not solely by osmosis, either-we began acquiring that degree of skill and energy and initiative of quick intelligence.
137. It is hard for people to change themselves, and not many people take the initiative to change themselves for a better future. Most people are forced into changing themselves because there are no options left. Dr T.P.Chia
138. This initiative will go national soon, with the planned new agency operating next year.
139. Since the passage of Proposition 209, those seeking such programs must resort to a statewide initiative to amend the California Constitution.
140. The initiative was taken by Bafuor Osei Akoto, a prosperous, go-ahead cocoa farmer of Kumasi.
141. The initiative will allow the entrepreneurs to test new approaches to agriculture or develop new agricultural products and activities.
142. Self motivation, initiative, excellent written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail will, however, be vital.
143. Pete Wilson supports the initiative,(www.Sentencedict.com) while Democratic gubernatorial candidate Kathleen Brown has staked her election hopes on vehement opposition.
144. In 1986, a political activist new to San Francisco was attending a fund-raiser to fight an anti-gay initiative.
145. Fifty-two percent of California voters approved the hotly debated term-limits initiative in 1990.
146. By October 1989, therefore, the time was right for a concerted diplomatic initiative against drift-net fishing.
147. To a large extent, initiative in policy formation is centered in the chief executive.
148. The loss of spontaneity and initiative may be accompanied by personality changes, anxiety and restlessness, particularly around tea time.
149. The latest initiative took place between August and October of 1996.
150. The ballot initiative qualified after the City Council approved the project last summer.
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