Sentence examples for initiative close from inspiring English sources

Ms. Preckwinkle used her budget address last week to push an initiative close to her heart that also would save taxpayers money: reducing the populations of the Cook County Jail and the county's Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.

The benefits for schools having better broadband access are obvious and are in line with the wider, philanthropic remit of Internet.org, another initiative close to Zuckerberg and Facebook.

Instead the Academy chose to prioritize "the familiar over the future, endeavor over initiative, closing ranks over opening doors".

The Regional Cassava Initiative Closing Workshop will take place from 10 till 12 September 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya.

These two organizations alone covered the vast majority of CVD-related research initiatives – close to 97% (see Figure 3).

Byrd-Bennett had taken over the job from an unfortunate gentleman named Jean-Claude Brizard, who was forced to take the fall when Emanuel lost a teachers' strike in 2012.* She was then tasked with another of Emanuel's sketchy initiatives: closing fifty-four schools, many of which were in the city's black neighborhoods.

The direct payments scheme is intended to be a complementary device for protected area rather than an instrument for land-use change, thus producing initiatives closer to ICDP than PES.

The president of the European Commission has asked me to promote this initiative in close cooperation with the E.U. commissioner in charge of the European Neighborhood Policy, Stefan Fulle.

In addition, labor unions want voters to approve even bigger sales and income tax increases, and environmental groups last week proposed an initiative to close a business tax loophole that they said would produce $1.2 billion for education and energy projects.

And a group of environmentalists, led by Thomas F. Steyer, the founder of Farallon Capital Management in San Francisco, has proposed an initiative to close a loophole that has allowed out-of-state companies to avoid paying an estimated $1.1 billion in taxes to California.

On January 17 , 2010 the Chicago Tribune reported that "Six years after Mayor Richard Daley" — (and his chief school administrator, Arne Duncan) — "launched a bold initiative to close down and remake failing schools, Renaissance 2010" — (Duncan's school improvement policy) — "has done little to improve the educational performance of the city's school system".