Sentence examples for initiative the program from inspiring English sources

Though some researchers have said that there is not enough evidence to measure the effect of the costly initiative, the program has attracted admirers from Harvard to the White House.

Through strategic partnerships and grant-making activities in its agricultural development initiative, the program helps increase opportunities for farmers in developing countries and supports research on the production of rice and flour enriched with micronutrients.

"We are doing hundreds of projects similar to what we did under M.S.R.I.," said Neil Hawkins, Mr. Feerer's successor at Dow, referring to the Michigan Source Reduction Initiative, the program with Mr. Bilkovich.

Seventeen months after President Bush announced his five-year, $15 billion emergency AIDS initiative, the program is belatedly getting under way, and surprising some critics of what is seen as its go-it-alone approach.

Though the United States has focused much of its anti-crime aid toward Mexico on helicopters and other equipment under the $1.6 billion Merida Initiative, the program is now shifting toward the shoring up of institutions, a step that analysts call overdue.

Phil Coorey and Laura Tingle report in The Australian Financial Review this morning that the numbers aren't there for the government's asset recycling initiative (the program that will provide incentives to the states to flog their assets and invest the proceeds in infrastructure).

Violent offenses in Glasgow have dropped by more than fifty per cent among gang members who took part in the initiative since the program began, in 2008.

Since 2001, United Nations members have endorsed a broad but loosely defined initiative, called the program of action, for a collective effort against illegal arms circulation.

The federal government had introduced a similar pilot program in 1966 but, arguably in response to the Panthers' initiative, extended the program and then made it permanent in 1975 undoubtedly to the chagrin of Hoover.

Adm. R. Timothy Ziemer, coordinator of President Bush's $1.2 billion Malaria Initiative, said the program would be willing to buy the new pill, assuming it meets international safety standards and is requested by countries the initiative supports.

Few of the important venture capital firms in Silicon Valley came out of the SBIC initiative, but the program helped spawn the institutional framework– law firms, accountants and research firms that the industry originally needed to get going.