Sentence examples for initiative to replace from inspiring English sources

That is Proposition 34, the ballot initiative to replace the death penalty with life in prison without the possibility of parole as the state's maximum sentence for murder.

The group, Life for a Life, spent well over $100,000 collecting signatures for an initiative to replace capital punishment with a mandatory life sentence.

The Academy for Careers in Sports is part of an initiative to replace large, failing high schools with smaller, independent units, each organized around a theme and sponsored by a community-based organization.

Ron Unz, the software millionaire who led successful efforts to end bilingual education in Arizona and California, announced that he planned financial support for a Massachusetts ballot initiative to replace bilingual classes.

For example, there is a city-wide initiative to replace face-to-face meetings with digital ones, promote cycling, and implement green IT by cutting down on paper usage.

Michael Bloomberg, New York's mayor, put $2m of his own money behind a ballot initiative to replace the city's current system of "closed" party primaries, restricted to members of each party, with a single "open" primary, where everybody could vote and the first two people would go to a run-off.

Also favoring regulation are the Dutch and most Nordic countries, which have successfully installed several initiatives to replace fossil fuel-fired power with renewable sources of energy.

It is well established that thoughtless implementation of policy initiatives to replace branded drugs by generic equivalents may result in confusion for patients or, in some cases, actual harm.

Mr. Joyce also began an initiative last year to replace key parts before they wear out — which he said has already delivered significant improvements in service.

In the weeks before the vote, Mr. Falcone, the director of the Ossining Public Library, went home nights and used a button-making machine to churn out a variety of homemade buttons bearing messages like "More Computers" and "Mas Libros" ("More Books"), urging voters to pass the initiative approving money to replace the current library, which has become overcrowded and outdated.

Vocabulary: babel, irate, culprit, shortwave, unreliable, synchronize, nanosecond, unenviable, shepherding, crucial, standardized, utilities, haphazard, adjusted Extension Activities: 1. Imagine that you are the head fundraiser for the Grand Central Terminal Time Measurement Improvement Initiative, a project to replace the clocks in the station with an atomic clock.