Sentence examples for limits initiative from inspiring English sources

He made the centerpiece of his appeal to voters a promise to reform Trenton, dusting off proposals from his days in the Assembly for legislative term limits, initiative and referendum, and an elected state auditor general.

Serphin R. Maltese, Republican of Queens, and the chairman of the Senate elections committee, said that only the City Council or the State Legislature had the power to overturn the term limits initiative.

Former Representative Bob Franks burst into the New Jersey governor's race today as the would-be savior of a badly bruised Republican Party, promising to "shake up the political process" with a reform-minded campaign for term limits, initiative and referendum, and an independent, elected state auditor general.

To begin with, Mr. Giuliani and his advisers would need to persuade either the State Legislature in Albany, or the Democratic-controlled City Council in New York, to overrule the term limits initiative that was twice passed by city voters, in 1993 and 1996, to give Mr. Giuliani the dispensation to run.

Jacob has worked with Oklahomans pushing an initiative that would bar this type of eminent domain abuse, as well as a state term limits initiative.

They need not worry about a politically convenient vote that has long-term costs because those will be the problem of a different set of legislators.In 2002 Idaho's legislature became the first to repeal that state's term-limits initiative.

During a news conference, the mayor said that the term-limits initiative, which will appear on the back of the paper ballots on Nov. 2, was imperfect and badly designed, but that he would support it anyway.

RONALD S. LAUDER, pictured, shunned by the city's Republican leaders for spending a multimillion-dollar chunk of his fortune on a failed mayoral campaign in 1989 and by other elected officials for pressing a term-limits initiative several years later, is now under fire from the Muslim-American establishment.

It is hard not to wonder whether Mr. Bloomberg's soda limit initiative might have garnered more enthusiasm (though obviously not from the soft-drink industry, whose ad campaigns against it imagine democracy imperiled at the threat of less Pepsi) if it had been delivered within the context of a more consistent and compassionate message about the city's commitment to the underserved.

Trainers' unexpected reactions to requests for guidance limit initiative (Smith 2000).

And for that reason Rauner's supporting an Illinois term-limit initiative.