Sentence examples for direct initiative from inspiring English sources
noun
A measure put directly to a vote after being submitted by a petition.
Panourgia finds the camp on Giaros – an island which even the Roman Emperor Tiberius decreed unfit for prisoners – to have been Wickham's own direct initiative.
But when he ran for re-election last year, Mr. Pataki introduced legislation to bring direct initiative and referendum to the state by amending its Constitution, and the Republican State Senate approved a bill to do just that.
It formed part of a precinct of science and art developed at the direct initiative of Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, on land purchased from the profits of the Great Exhibition of 1851.
O'Brien was in his 40s when he entered into the most fateful and controversial chapter of his life – his posting to the Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) by the direct initiative of Dag Hammerskjold, then secretary-general of the UN.
For direct initiative, that would require 189,212 signatures more in now than less than a decade ago.
"It's hard to count the number of direct initiatives we've taken and failed.
It has done this through direct initiatives – for example, putting students on review teams – and indirectly, by ensuring that students' issues are at the core of the UK Quality Code.
Traditional models for funding and doing business are falling to the wayside as more direct initiatives begin to take root.
Yet Californians, making use of the direct-initiative process currently available in fifteen states and the District of Columbia, have just raised taxes on the wealthy to help fund schools and public-safety systems, and taxed multi-state businesses operating in California in order to pay for sustainable energy.
Stacy Mitchell is a senior researcher with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, where she directs initiatives on independent business and community banking.
Two national actions, the Federally mandated phasedown of lead in gasoline by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the voluntary phasedown of lead use in domestic food can production, are examples of centrally directed initiatives that have been relatively successful in limiting childhood lead exposure in the U.S. Efforts to abate lead-based paint exposure of children have largely failed.
