Sentence examples for getting initiatives from inspiring English sources
Identifying colleagues who shared their passion for sustainability, and creating a network of employees interested in advancing CSR, was key to getting initiatives off the ground and establishing the business relevance of sustainability in different departments.
"If this is how Ward Connerly and his supporters go about getting initiatives on the ballot, what does it say about their integrity?" This is not the first time that Mr. Connerly, who has successfully assisted on similar proposals in California, Washington and Michigan, has been accused of deception.
Campaigners are focusing on getting initiatives on state ballots in the 2016 election, especially in states that have demonstrated openness to legalization, such as Nevada and California, which was the first state to legalize medicinal marijuana and has also decriminalized marijuana.
Entrepreneurs take small, quick steps to get initiatives off the ground.
The group also said it would shelve efforts to get initiatives onto the ballot in Washington and Oregon, and would agree not to conduct undercover investigations at large egg farms unless it was aware of especially egregious practices.
Everytown has successfully lobbied for the passage of stricter gun laws in five states over the past three years — Oregon, Washington, Connecticut, New York and Delaware — and earlier this year led efforts in Maine and Nevada to get initiatives on the ballot in November.
Attempts to get initiatives on the state ballot can cost millions of dollars, and often fail.
Because the Vermont Democrats were predisposed against him, Sanders often cooperated with the local Republicans to get initiatives passed.
Florida will have a medical marijuana initiative on its ballot in November, and pot advocates are pushing to get initiatives on the ballot in several other states.
Adam Eidinger, who organized the petition drive to get Initiative 71 on the ballot, said the odds of dangerous marijuana are low.
An attempt to get initiative repealing ban of plastic bags has failed so far in Huntington Beach.
