Sentence examples for an initiative to combat from inspiring English sources

The S.E.C. recently filed several actions against hedge funds as part of an initiative to combat fraudulent valuations and phony returns.

The protest planned for Friday will, coincidentally, occur just one day after Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced an initiative to combat chronic truancy.

The administration's showpiece program on AIDS this year was an initiative to combat the transmission of the disease from mothers to babies.

When we first spoke, almost a year ago, he described all of the organization's programs -- an initiative to combat asthma, an organizing campaign for tenants -- as equally important.

The police department said that it is moving 330 officers currently fulfilling administrative duties to the streets in high-crime areas as part of an initiative to combat gun violence.

In 2006, an international group of scientists and advocates started the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, an initiative to combat hookworm and other insidious but low-profile infections.

In late January, the President unveiled a new initiative to combat a recent epidemic of secuestro, as kidnapping for ransom is known.

The source added that the government has also spent virtually none of a $9m grant it has been entitled to use since August 2014, awarded as part of an urgent initiative to combat drug-resistant malaria in the Mekong region.

Consistent with King's vision for economic equality, the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, in close collaboration with community partners, Mayor Ras Baraka and the city of Newark, is launching an ambitious initiative to combat poverty by connecting unemployed Newark residents to work.

Opioid abuse has burgeoned into an epidemic in the United States, with Barack Obama this week announcing a new initiative to combat it, after last month promising $1.1bn to the effort.

In 2009 the museum announced a $2.3 million initiative to combat childhood obesity, which included adapting a We Can! curriculum for children as young as 2. The initiative, which also comprises the $1.2 million "EatSleepPlay" exhibition, gained further momentum when the first lady, Michelle Obama, announced Let's Move!, her campaign for childhood fitness.