Sentence examples for initiative system from inspiring English sources

Colorado's ballot initiative system was severely abused this year, when four of the six voter-initiated measures on the statewide ballot made it to Election Day without disclosure of who paid for the printing of petitions or the collection of signatures to qualify those measures for the ballot.

Everyone blames the out-of-control voter initiative system.

California's initiative system remains popular, despite all the headaches it has caused.

While it is not unusual for investor-owned utilities to fight, case by case, to keep from losing customers to public competitors, California's initiative system is a bigger battleground.

To aid human indexing of the MEDLINE database, NLM developed an automatic indexing system [20 22], the Indexing Initiative system (IIS), to identify candidate MeSH concepts in papers being indexed, helping to speed the manual annotation of the biomedical literature.

Nabhani and Shokri (2007) explored the possibilities of implementation of a quality initiative system, especially Six Sigma to improve the objectives in supply chain management for a food distribution small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME).

This sham politics, which mirrors the sham "direct democracy" of the ballot-initiative system itself, draws its strength from the fiction that prosperity depends upon the outcome of a hand-to-hand struggle between beleaguered property owners and some predatory group of "have-nots" (the poor, the uneducated, the young, and immigrants) who must be stopped by law at the edge of the front yard.

They fear the court has in effect granted a veto to officials in California (and the 26 other states that have similar ballot-initiative systems) over democratically passed laws that they dislike.

Mixed-Initiative-Systems (MIS) are hybrid decision-making systems in which human and machine collaborate in order to produce a solution.

RavenClaw isolates the domain-specific aspects of the dialog control logic from domain-independent conversational skills, and in the process facilitates rapid development of mixed-initiative systems operating in complex, task-oriented domains.

It is in properly identifying what is being done -- and thus in bringing to light those initiatives, systems and practices that are in fact health focused -- that are taking up this new banner.