Sentence examples for kill the initiative from inspiring English sources

But he said that "minimal senior White House commitment" helped to kill the initiative.

That was tantamount to threatening a veto that would kill the initiative if it went before the Council in its present form.

When Hillary Clinton tried to push through a plan for government-run health care in the 1990s, the drugs industry spent huge sums to help kill the initiative.

That would probably kill the initiative for this election year, handing Mr. Obama a big loss in a fight against not only Congressional Republicans but also the dominant conservative faction on the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.

The effort to kill the initiative — executed with a swift fierceness almost unheard of against an initiative in such an early stage — has been led by a bevy of Clinton supporters, including a former Clinton White House official, prominent elected Democratic supporters and one of Mrs. Clinton's most prolific fund-raisers.

Text messages released through open records requests indicate the delaying tactics were part of a strategy to kill the initiative entirely.

His efforts failed miserably: President Nixon killed the initiative, and Romney eventually resigned.

Contributions aimed at killing the initiative are on track to be the most raised involving a single ballot measure since 2001, the earliest year for which online data are available, according to MapLight, a nonpartisan organization that tracks money in politics.

By the time the election rolled around, the No on 32 advertising program had essentially killed the initiative, but much of the vote still needed to be turned out, that portion which was less likely to vote.

"If they are successful at killing the initiatives, they will have saved... a whole lot of money in compliance".

Then in March we get to vote again to kill the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative.