Sentence examples for initiative an effort from inspiring English sources

Currently the F.D.A. has financed the Sentinel Initiative, an effort begun in 2008 to assess the risks of drugs already on the market.

It is similar to Microsoft's Mira initiative, an effort to use a tablet-size device as a remote control for a home PC.

He will also call for an expansion of the Bush administration's Proliferation Security Initiative, an effort to intercept nuclear materials as they are traded around the world.

The Hutchins Family Foundation is investing $10 million in the Chronic Fatigue Initiative, an effort to find causes and treatments that has recruited top researchers from Columbia, Harvard, Duke and other institutions.

But Belize is a member of the Proliferation Security Initiative, an effort begun by President George W. Bush's administration to sign up countries around the world to interdict suspected unconventional weapons.

According to Microsoft, Office XP also exhibits the first tender shoots of the company's vaguely defined.NET initiative, an effort to get better integration of its PC software with the Web.

Over the next two years, Marshall worked on two major initiatives: an effort to extend national forest recreational opportunities to people with lower incomes (as well as dismantling discriminatory barriers against minority groups), and a program to preserve more wilderness within the national forests.

Answering a public challenge from the industry's Secure Digital Music Initiative -- an effort by a consortium of about 200 companies -- including Microsoft, Sony and the major record labels -- the Princeton professors said last week that they had broken the industry code and that the technology would be vulerable to Internet pirates.

She told the Wall Street Journal that the initiative was "an effort to humanise victims of terror".

Mr. Gore's major health care initiative is an effort to get universal coverage for children by the year 2005.

The Israelis vigorously opposed the initiative as an effort to "internationalize" the dispute and bypass American mediation.