Sentence examples for initiative has failed from inspiring English sources

He says he will move only when he judges that the Bush administration's peace initiative has failed.

They say that he does not consult with people, that he travels abroad too much and, most damningly, that his "civil concord" peace initiative has failed.

But that initiative has failed to attract broad support and faces resistance from Australia and Canada, whose banks generally withstood the crisis.

By contrast, the American attempt to take the lead in controlling nuclear weapons transfers, the Proliferation Security Initiative, has failed to win Chinese cooperation.

A 2011 peace initiative has failed to stem the conflict, which has become more complex than the historical tensions between the mostly nomadic Arabs, and black African farming communities over grazing rights.

However, critics say the initiative has failed to address drug treatment and prevention.

I had turned to war only after my peace initiative had failed.

Moshe Yaalon, Israel's defense minister, said Friday in Washington that Mr. Kerry's initiative had "failed so far" and that he was not optimistic about the prospect of an agreement.

After the last of the election results trickled in Tuesday night showing that the New Jersey initiative had failed, 53 percent to 47 percent, politicians and pollsters alike were confounded.

A scientist working for the US-based Center for International Environmental Law said it was "deeply disappointing" the funding initiative had failed.

At least two initiatives have failed.