Sentence examples for initiative fought from inspiring English sources

An American team arrived to challenge Chinese players in the legendary "ping pong diplomacy" initiative, fought out on Double Happiness tables.

In another case, from last August, the Maya Archaeology Initiative fought claims by Kellogg that a bird depicted in the organization's logo is too similar to Toucan Sam, the bird on the Froot Loops cereal box.

The greater hope in the labor movement these days comes not from the picket line but from legislative efforts such as the union-backed minimum-wage initiative Fight for 15.

The presentation is part of a new MTV social initiative, "Fight for Your Rights: Take a Stand Against Discrimination," and will follow the showing of an original movie, "Anatomy of a Hate Crime," based on the story of Matthew Shepard, the gay college student who was murdered in October 1998.

At one point Connerly talked about taking his anti-affirmative action initiative fight to more than a dozen states.

In the ensuing initiative fight, the 'no' side had an immense money advantage, collecting more than $30 million before the measure qualified for the ballot.

With no success in the Capitol, attorneys, along with malpractice victims and the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog, decided last year to propose a ballot measure, hoping the threat of a costly initiative fight would induce a last-minute legislative deal.

Losing Ohio after a particularly bruising ballot initiative fight at the end of 2008 would cost him at least $1 million in profits, he complained -- and that didn't include the other store closures he had endured following recent political defeats in Oregon and New Hampshire.

In partnership with UNICEF and the ILO the Red Card Campaign is part of the FTTSA initiative 'Fight Child Exploitation in Tourism'.

I would welcome any union initiative that fought for such an aim.

Proponents of the initiative had fought the release of the recordings, but Judge James Ware of Federal District Court said in a 14-page opinion that public access to trials and court records was "foremost among the aspects of the federal judicial system that foster public confidence in the fairness and integrity of the process".