Collocations withinitiative
These are words often used in combination withinitiative.
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ballot initiative
On the one hand, the media could take credit for publicising the seventh ballot initiative and introducing the students and their frame to a broad national public.
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bold initiative
Plague induced a widespread elite consensus that a bold initiative was required to 'clean up' the city.
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conservation initiative
Any conservation initiative that raises the value of intact ecosystems may increase the demand of outsiders to secure rights to these ecosystems.
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diplomatic initiative
They had the moral and diplomatic initiative in the business of peacemaking and disarmament offers.
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educational initiative
The objective of the educational initiative was to review the guidelines with the prescriber and offer alternative antibiotics.
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enterprise initiative
The enterprise initiative is about small businesses.
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entrepreneurial initiative
One of its principal goals was to improve entrepreneurial initiative.
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environmental initiative
The growth and environmental initiative has not received any more funds.
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green initiative
Does he further accept that the public will not support generalised and indiscriminate tax increases that are simply disguised as green initiatives?
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health initiative
For example, a women's health initiative was implemented to develop programmes and policies that were more responsive to women's health needs.
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individual initiative
With its emphasis on individual initiative and action, anarchism provided a suitable cover for the individuals who made up the incontrolats.
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innovative initiative
To display this, we here take just one innovative initiative.
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joint initiative
Measures are being taken to reduce the number of hoax calls in a joint initiative between emergency services and telephone operating companies.
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legislative initiative
However, temporary appointments could be transformed into permanent ones through legislative initiative.
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local initiative
We see it as a bridge between global concern and local initiative.
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major initiative
The third major initiative of the government was to add more value to cocoa by expanding local processing.
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management initiative
Is that not much more important than the rest of the financial management initiative?
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marketing initiative
The marketing initiative is frequently changed to meet new marketing conditions.
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new initiative
This can make study findings appear redundant as the health service rushes on to experiment with the next new initiative.
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outreach initiative
These include confidential advice and support help lines, a network of equal opportunities advisers, equality training programmes and outreach initiatives.
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peace initiative
It is not yet clear if the charter is a serious peace initiative.
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philanthropic initiative
The first phase of liberal social policy supported a dual model with a strong call for self-help and philanthropic initiatives.
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policy initiative
On financial services, the policy initiative was in the hands of the corporate lobbyists who pushed for a project which was eventually implemented.
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prevention initiative
We are concerned also that the lessons of the drug prevention initiative on interventions in the criminal justice system should be taken forward.
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private initiative
Thus, the system acted as a brake on private initiative and was an obstacle to the development of the telephone.
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proposed initiative
However, care should be taken to ensure that the proposed initiative is not by its own momentum transformed into another institution.
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recent initiative
If he will make a statement on his recent initiative for relief of international debt.
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research initiative
Stakeholders were approached by introductory e-mail, which detailed this as a research initiative, stating that their involvement would be anonymous and that results would be published.
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strategic defence initiative
This applies equally to strategic defence initiative research and defence research.
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strategic initiative
When a situation has been especially important or pivotal to the party's fortunes, party leaders have not hesitated to use election contests as a strategic initiative.
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sustainability initiative
The university's sustainability initiatives are solely institution-specific, as it has not signed any national or international sustainability declaration.
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technology initiative
Support is available to the knitwear and textile industries for pre-competitive collaborative research under the four main schemes covered by the research and technology initiative.
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unilateral initiatives
It goes without saying that unilateral initiatives that could lead to trade conflicts must be avoided.
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various initiatives
Thus, this article focuses on the micro-processes of interaction in the various initiatives.
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