Sentence examples for back an initiative from inspiring English sources

And he urged viewers to back an initiative he is putting on the November ballot that would increase sales taxes by 0.25 percent and impose an income tax surcharge on wealthy Californians to try to stave off more cuts.

Such sceptical euro-mandarins favour rules demanding that at least 0.2% of voters in any given country back an initiative, in at least a third of the EU's members (ie, nine countries).

County supervisors voted Tuesday to pull back an initiative they had previously approved for the ballot, which would have placed a 10% tax on gross receipts of marijuana businesses, with the money to be used for housing and services for the homeless.

He is backing an initiative to release more information about the performance of hospitals.

Both backed an initiative to attract as much as $25 billion in foreign investment in the country's natural gas business.

The Gates Foundation has also backed an initiative from African nations, who came together in 2003 to pledge 10% of their national budgets to agriculture.

It recently backed an initiative by Bahrain to limit the time that unskilled foreign labourers can work in any of the six member states of the Gulf Co-operation Council to six years, to prevent them from becoming too comfortable.

Among the innovations in the constitution that helped reconcile the interests of large and small countries is a "double-majority" voting system that takes account of the number of countries backing an initiative as well as the population they represent.

Backing an initiative by Merseyside-based kitchen appliance firm Stoves for a new Made in Britain mark, Miliband said they were "three words we don't hear enough, or see enough".

Mr. Bush backed an initiative that made Texas only the third state in the nation to require pollution reductions from older power plants that had been exempted from the standards set for more modern ones.

Clinton and the former CIA director David Petraeus reportedly backed an initiative to arm the Syrian rebels years ago, only to see Obama reject it for fear of proliferating weapons to Islamic extremists.