The phrase "admirable initiative" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to commend someone for taking a positive and proactive step or action in a particular situation.
Example: "Her admirable initiative in organizing the community clean-up event inspired others to get involved."
Alternatives: "commendable effort" or "praiseworthy action".
But this admirable initiative in greater transparency appears to have run into the sand.
(President Richard M. Nixon later wrote a letter to the rally's organizers saying they had shown "admirable initiative").
Goldman also seems to have leaked a story that it is mulling a requirement to compel its top executives to donate a certain portion of their earnings to charity an admirable initiative that won't alleviate the public's anger about the firm's perceived ill-gotten gains.
This is admirable initiative perhaps, yet suggests the existence of a knowledge translation gap, whether that is due to lack of opportunities for researcher-decision maker interaction, or the failure of academics to 'push' or managers to 'pull' relevant research [ 51].
Added to the admirable initiatives of Mia Farrow, Steven Spielberg and Eric Reeves, a Darfur activist, should be a "spectator boycott" of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
There are bound to be in an Administration staffed not by orcs and ogres but for the most part by the usual run of military people and professional politicians acceptable actions, even admirable initiatives, and we would do ourselves and our country a huge disservice by simply responding to them all with the same reflexive hatred.
Admirable initiatives, but they dont go far enough not by a long, sliced shot.
It's because of their continued efforts -- and those of other political operatives like them -- that even the current administration's admirable AIDS initiative in Africa is hindered by restrictions that give a higher priority to abstinence than safe sex as a form of HIV prevention.
Barney Ronay is at The Kia Oval for Surrey-Glamorgan, which among other things sees the start of an admirable new initiative by Surrey who will be offering a guest real ale and speciality pie from the territory of their opponents for every Championship fixture this season.
And the university has taken steps to address its own carbon impact through admirable sustainability initiatives.
Supporting local growers and small producers, becoming more self sufficient through campaigns like Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's admirable Landshare project, initiatives like the Fife Diet, and making an effort to understand the produce we eat, the effort to get it to our table, to value it more and waste less – it all feels less like a smug lifestyle choice and more like common sense, doesn't it?
