Sentence examples for approved initiative from inspiring English sources

Montanans overwhelmingly approved Initiative 166 on Election Day.

When voters approved Initiative 17 in 1984, they guaranteed the city's homeless a right to shelter.

Washington voters overwhelmingly approved Initiative 1000, a ballot measure that makes Washington the second state, after Oregon, to legalize physician-assisted suicide.

In 1999, voters approved Initiative 695, which repealed the longstanding motor vehicle excise tax that had provided nearly all of the state's transportation funding.

D.C. voters in 2014 approved Initiative 71 in a referendum that legalized the possession of up to two ounces of marijuana for recreational use.

Washington voters approved Initiative 200, an anti-affirmative action measure, modeled on California's, that will ban racial or gender preferences in government hiring, contracting or college admissions.

Often, business directions become manifest in annual lists of strategic projects or approved initiatives.

In Oregon and Utah voters approved initiatives to reform asset-forfeiture laws, which often apply in drug cases.

In Idaho and Utah, two conservative states, voters approved initiatives to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.

Voters in at least seven states (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon and Washington) have approved initiatives intended to make marijuana legal for medical purposes.

Gray Davis, a former Democratic governor, noted that voters had approved initiatives to begin repairing a notoriously dysfunctional government.