Sentence examples for final initiative from inspiring English sources

PARIS — A year that began with hopes that the Taliban were ready to start talking peace is ending with a final initiative — informal talks outside Paris among Afghanistan's competing factions, including militants — that, if anything, exemplifies how little progress has been made in 2012 toward opening negotiations to end the war.

The announcement of the transfer on Wednesday marks the start of a spate of releases of 17 men the administration intends to free from Guantánamo Bay in January, part of a final initiative by Barack Obama, seeking to empty the detention camp before leaving office.

Today, Mr. Levitt will disclose what may be the final initiatives of his term.

17 Blocking Clinton's Final Orders The Bush administration got off to a fast start, acting to delay or block some of the Clinton administration's final initiatives.

What turned out to be one of the final initiatives of the Cameron administration was a plan for national parenting lessons.

BUSH'S AGENDA -- Facing a growing list of problems, President Bush started fast, acting to delay or block some of the Clinton administration's final initiatives.

That would be the final regulatory initiative of its departing chairman, Harvey Pitt.

Fiona Mactaggart, the Labour MP for Slough, said she had repeatedly written to the National Audit Office requesting that it investigate allegations of fraud and unacceptably poor standards of service in A4e's Slough office, after a series of complaints from constituents over the way A4e had delivered the Flexible New Deal programme, Labour's final jobseekers initiative.

Terrified that there would be a nuclear cataclysm unless there was an 'easement' in the tensions of the Cold War, he launched his final diplomatic initiative, to bring the US and the Soviet Union to the conference table.

This article has been updated to include the final results on Initiative 42.

In the clubby Senate, colleagues are often willing to help a senator get a final few pet initiatives across the finish line, sort of like a parting gift.