Sentence examples for previous initiative from inspiring English sources

It had freed about 300 under a previous initiative.

But Israelis "did not stop their killing of our people, our leaders and officials," he said, adding, "That is why we are no longer obligated by our previous initiative".

But in Washington, the opposite is happening: a momentous initiative to legalize marijuana for all adults, which will be on the ballot this fall, is being opposed by the medical marijuana industry that the previous initiative created.

The most prominent previous initiative along those lines was Clear, a service that ran special-access lanes in about 20 airports before abruptly going out of business in 2009, partly because the T.S.A. never embraced the concept.

Health experts acknowledged that the limit did go farther than menu labeling, the city's previous initiative, in that it was manipulating choices to try to change consumer norms, instead of offering information and letting the consumer decide.

The proposal, which reverses a decades-long trend to give the federal government a central role in assuring equality of access to public education, goes further than any previous initiative with bipartisan support.

Previous initiatives to simply financial products have fallen by the wayside.

Its scale and clever design mean it is far more likely to succeed than previous initiatives to spur credit growth.

One source close to Whittingdale said overspending on previous initiatives such as the digital media initiative meant that greater oversight was necessary.

MediaEquals is not the first online ad exchange, but previous initiatives have tended to focus on niches, like late-night space on cable television.

Since November stock and credit markets have rallied partly as previous initiatives gain traction and partly in anticipation of more aggressive actions by the incoming administration.