Sentence examples for initiatives whether from inspiring English sources

An independent F.C.C. has been able to move forward on big initiatives, whether it's universal-service reform, net neutrality, broadband data roaming.

All equality and diversity initiatives – whether for ethnic minorities, women or lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) groups – were rolled into one.

Yet citizens seem to be more willing to stump up for local roads through local initiatives, whether higher taxes or vehicle-registration fees.

If we are to benefit from such initiatives – whether NHS-wide or in individual hospitals – we must use data responsibly, secure it, and create a culture where people feel safe using new technology.

Even if Trump fails in his most ambitious policy initiatives, whether it is liberating the wealthy from their tax obligations or liberating the poor from their health care, he has already begun to foster a public sphere in which, as Hannah Arendt put it in her treatise on totalitarian states, millions come to believe that "everything was possible and that nothing was true".

And every generation of students has tried to fill perceived gaps in the formal curricula with their own initiatives, whether through the condom giveaways of the 1990s or the explosion of student sex columns — and even pornography magazines — in the last decade.

Respondents are asked whether African Americans ought to be able to lift themselves up by their bootstraps despite social challenges, whether they lack initiative, whether discrimination is responsible for racial inequity, and whether blacks are more hardworking, or less, than whites.

This means that he agrees that suitably trained priests can decide on their own initiative whether remarried couples are to be admitted to communion even when they are having – brace yourself – sex (one of the more delightful conservative positions is that remarried divorcees are of course welcome to take communion providing they aren't actually​ doing it with each another).

The second thing is that there's so much capital being put into this initiative, whether it's the big consumer electronic companies like Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, and Visio, or whether it's the studios like Disney, DreamWorks, Fox, and Paramount, as well as the others.

"It's time for him to come clean and follow decades of precedent by releasing multiple years of tax returns so that voters can learn about his motivations on critical policy initiatives and whether he used his offshore accounts to hedge against the dollar or avoid U.S. taxes.

Those involved with Mr. Cuomo's campaign say the candidate weighs in on decisions large and small, including when to announce major policy initiatives and whether to respond to a press inquiry, leading to what some of them call "paralysis by analysis".