Michael Barber's much-vaunted message that "the quality of an education system cannot exceed the quality of its teachers" is a powerful one that has led many school leaders and policymakers to throw more initiatives and training at teachers in order to make them better.
No matter how much money is thrown at initiatives trying to stem the supply, there will always be enough illicit drugs available to perpetuate the epidemic of drug use.
To distract from the continuing grim statistics on jobs he threw in initiatives to provide new health centres for every "poor" county in the land, though there was no indication of how this would be paid for in a time of federal spending cuts.
A number of artists, labels, and venues across the country are throwing fundraiser initiatives in the wake of the fatal Ghost Ship fire in Oakland this weekend, which left at least 36 people dead.
And then, remarkably, they threw the initiative away.
It stayed off the ballot there because California's secretary of state (the state's top election official), who can ease the path of ballot initiatives or throw up hurdles in their way, is a Democrat and he kept it off.
I don't want to start swapping off pieces, which would throw away White's initiative.
Trump could throw his weight behind local initiatives for some perceived easy proxy wins, and talk up federal anti-porn measures, potentially scaring the porn industry and invigorating its critics even more.
If you throw in other American-backed initiatives like the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, and the World Bank, you pretty much have the entire infrastructure of what we now casually call "the international community".
Western governments are being urged to throw their weight behind the initiative, with De Mistura due to brief EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Sunday before a strategy session with the EU's new foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini.
