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  • Such initiative would be rewarded with a blindfold and a cigarette.†   (source)
  • Started in 1964 as a federal initiative, Job Corps was designed to help disadvantaged youth.†   (source)
  • The project would eventually be named the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI).†   (source)
  • I'm sure that Owen, too, was grateful for Mr. Merrill's gesture—even if the gesture had been a struggle, and not of the minister's own initiative.†   (source)
  • Someone over there at North South Bank is on top of things, because as the letter states: Taking the initiative to improve the property as a renter shows a commitment to the values we at North South Bank hold dear.†   (source)
  • In general, an end to all private initiative.†   (source)
  • MaddAdam needs fresh initiatives.†   (source)
  • They wanted people who would act on their own initiative.†   (source)
  • Mr. Nielsen is a member of the chamber of commerce, and conversations often include discussion of initiatives and plans for stimulating business in this "unruly" economy, as he calls it.†   (source)
  • She's taken the initiative for the evening, making reservations at a place in midtown, which Donald and Astrid have recommended.†   (source)
  • In the famous nineteenth-century novels of Horatio Alger, young boys born into poverty rise to riches through a combination of pluck and initiative.†   (source)
  • It was never an institutional initiative.†   (source)
  • Also, the individual soldiers were given little initiative.†   (source)
  • I mean, I think I've shown quite a bit of initiative with the weather channel, eh?†   (source)
  • In 1996, I went to an ordinary block of two-bedroom homes in East Los Angeles to understand why nearly a third of California Latinos had supported Proposition 187, a voter initiative to bar illegal immigrants from schools, hospitals, and most public assistance.†   (source)
  • On their own initiative the Congolese seem unable to produce much in the way of hair—half of them are bald as a bug, even the girls.†   (source)
  • The melee broke up the rhythm of the attack and, by the time the French had regained their initiative, Henry's own men-at-arms had braced to hold them at pike length while Kassad and several thousand other archers poured volley fire into the massed French infantry at close range.†   (source)
  • Before coming out here, I took the initiative to look up "candid" in the dictionary.†   (source)
  • A friend of Burnham's, James Ellsworth, was one of the board's directors; he too was frustrated by the stalemate, so much so that on his own initiative, during a business trip to Maine in mid-July, he visited the Brookline, Massachusetts, office of Frederick Law Olmsted to try and persuade him to come to Chicago and evaluate the sites under consideration and perhaps take on the task of designing the fair's landscape.†   (source)
  • That very morning, a message from a college friend, Tania Schwartz, came through, pleading for help with an initiative her brother was spearheading.†   (source)
  • I knew that I must find the train to Uelzen, but months of being told what to do had left me robbed of initiative.†   (source)
  • The initiative was modeled after California's Proposition 13 and championed by Douglas Bruce, a Colorado Springs landlord who'd recently arrived from Los Angeles.†   (source)
  • Finally, he said the school wouldput some meat behind Project Student; it became a school-backed initiative to present to the school board.†   (source)
  • Now I had taken the initiative and bought one anyway.†   (source)
  • We were no longer relying on luck and individual initiative, as on 7 September.†   (source)
  • Before too long folk were taking initiative to sing out their own verses when the chorus was over.†   (source)
  • After class it was rare for him not to have an appointment related to his civic initiatives, or his Catholic service, or his artistic and social innovations.†   (source)
  • They've lost the initiative, which means they've lost the war.†   (source)
  • Precisely at such moments we may possibly have an initiative of our own which guides what we say and do.†   (source)
  • Pecola always took the initiative with Marie, who, once inspired, was difficult to stop.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist took the initiative.†   (source)
  • If one chooses to believe the hearsay evidence of Nolan's immediate circle of friends (and to be brutally frank, they do not seem intelligent enough to lie convincingly), then Nolan took this part of the conspiracy entirely out of Christine Hargensen's hands and acted on his own initiative … He didn't talk when he drove; he liked to drive.†   (source)
  • That you never take the initiative to talk to anybody.†   (source)
  • It surprised him that she had taken the initiative when he was perfectly capable of healing his own wounds.†   (source)
  • Finally, seeing my plan failing, I struggled to regain my composure, to take the initiative by playing the submissive wife.†   (source)
  • She sensed that he was taking the initiative for her sake.†   (source)
  • Charles Halloway saw but did not see her flinch, sensed but seemed in no way to consider her withdrawal, for almost immediately, seizing the initiative, she flung herself forward, not touching, but mutely gesticulating at his chest as one might try to spell an antique clock pendulum.†   (source)
  • They had reckoned I would not have the initiative or wherewithal to defend myself; they were mistaken.†   (source)
  • You think he wants me to take the initiative?†   (source)
  • If something went wrong, her sons would have to take the initiative to call for help.†   (source)
  • Although he had decided on his own initiative to arrest Bigwig, he had not the reputation of being vindictive.†   (source)
  • I answered all his questions about the job, and attached, as requested, a copy of the school recycling initiatives he'd implemented, which he wanted to show someone he'd met at camp.†   (source)
  • These theories were not only logical; they were also encouraging, for they attributed the crime drop to specific and recent human initiatives.†   (source)
  • At thirty minutes past ten, Brown pulled a third alarm (which would bring every one of the city's remaining fire engines to the scene) — once again on his own initiative and once again for the wrong box.†   (source)
  • Soupy was excellent when set a task, but had no initiative and was unused to planning.†   (source)
  • She fled the whorehouse on her own initiative.†   (source)
  • We the Coalition hereby grant the PCC express permission to fully implement their PC Initiative #1 as presented in full and attached below.†   (source)
  • This pattern persisted ever since: Only a few have held the monopoly on initiative because they alone have had the social tools.†   (source)
  • Petty Officer Wasdin's exceptional professional ability, initiative, and loyal devotion to duty reflect great credit upon himself and the United States Naval Service.†   (source)
  • By his extraordinary guidance, zealous initiative, and total dedication to duty, Brown reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.†   (source)
  • When it was clear all the school projects would be completed ahead of time, Mortenson launched an ambitious array of new initiatives.†   (source)
  • Thank you for taking the initiative to apply for a job.†   (source)
  • It was Pauline, who had made the trip from Manchester to Boston on her own initiative.†   (source)
  • No one took the initiative to repair them.†   (source)
  • 'The remaining quarter of the bedsheet I've set aside for myself as a reward for my enterprise, work and initiative.†   (source)
  • Yet, like at its peer institutions, Brown's bold initiative doesn't go much beyond the offer of admission.†   (source)
  • In fact, she was the one who had taken the erotic initiative shortly after they met.†   (source)
  • No one's told me what to do yet, so—using my initiative, very good—I walk up to a woman with blond hair, who's tapping away at the till, and say, "Shall I have a quick go?"†   (source)
  • Hema noticed an authority to his voice, a sense of action and energy and initiative that no one else seemed capable of displaying in the face of my terrible prognosis.†   (source)
  • But the initiative had passed to the Israelis, and the tension was gone from it by now.†   (source)
  • I could consult the inventory on my own initiative.†   (source)
  • Taking the initiative, he hunted up his old friend Jonathan Sewall, whom he had not seen since the day they bid farewell at Casco Bay in what seemed a lifetime before.†   (source)
  • Today she was rubbishing a new street crime initiative just announced by the mayor of New York City but she was having trouble finding the old mix of wit and vitriol that used to characterize Annie Graves at her best.†   (source)
  • Maribel is pleasant with the customers and gives the correct change, but she doesn't show much initiative.†   (source)
  • For the first time they decide that they will take the initiative, and invade us — and pick you up, too, of course.†   (source)
  • Fortytwo of these initiatives involve our missing Potentials—one mission for each child.†   (source)
  • I have no idea where all of this would have led had she not finally taken the initiative.†   (source)
  • The plant director thinks Oswald is careless and oversensitive and lacks initiative.†   (source)
  • The assistant manager had exhausted his power of initiative by volunteering to call her.†   (source)
  • He was afraid for Alessandro's life, and he had to take the initiative.†   (source)
  • Only his wife was looking at him, her face alight with interest as he discussed the value of hard labor, then the deplorable lack of initiative in the younger generation, then the benefits conferred by having lived through the Great Depression.†   (source)
  • But these programs suffer from all the ills in our education system; opportunities go, disproportionately, to those who already have initiative, intelligence, and—not least—family support.†   (source)
  • As to establishing contact with the study species — this seemed out of the question at the moment, unless the wolves themselves decided to take the initiative.†   (source)
  • Just when he was thinking, for example, that maybe he should call up Old Chao and find out what was going on at school, Helen spoiled his initiative, saying, "If you want to sign up to teach some summer courses, you'd better call right away.†   (source)
  • Then in 'fifty-eight, after the Iraq king was assassinated, we grabbed the initiative and landed Marines in Lebanon.†   (source)
  • Hinmrnity will have lost its initiative and become a subject race.†   (source)
  • Necessity had forced me to this, not only because I had no extra money for entertainment but because, as a newcomer to the metropolis, less shy than simply proudly withdrawn, I lacked both the opportunity and the initiative to make friends.†   (source)
  • America, he told me, had been built with initiative and hard work.†   (source)
  • A servant loses his initiative.†   (source)
  • In this he differed from professional interrogators who set store by initiative, by the evocation of atmosphere and the exploitation of that psychological dependency of a prisoner upon his inquisitor.†   (source)
  • Governor Houston, still desperately attempting to regain the initiative, indicated he would make known his plans on the matter to the legislature.†   (source)
  • Nina, taking a strange and heady initiative, rose to her feet.†   (source)
  • He must seize the initiative, or at least try to seize it; he must keep Grace from reading his mind.†   (source)
  • But usually it takes a woman weeks to figure out she'll have to take the initiative."†   (source)
  • Nowadays it's the girl who takes the initiative," said Mr. Ingebrigtsen.†   (source)
  • If you're in a tight spot—take the initiative.†   (source)
  • Hilly smiles at me and I realize she's about to bring up the initiative.†   (source)
  • Unsupported, alone, on their own initiative.†   (source)
  • No: now she was a full-fledged woman, who liked to take the initiative.†   (source)
  • We were able to finally launch the race and poverty initiative I'd long been hoping to start at EJI.†   (source)
  • The initiative won majority support in every county in the state.†   (source)
  • " "That's exactly why I've designed the Home Help Sanitation Initiative," Miss Hilly say.†   (source)
  • They had surrendered the initiative completely.†   (source)
  • I reach in my satchel and pull out the page of Hilly's bathroom initiative.†   (source)
  • I want my initiative in the next newsletter, a full page next to the photo ops.†   (source)
  • They were to use their own initiative and be innovative as they went forward.†   (source)
  • It had been at her initiative, and the relationship had lasted for half a year.†   (source)
  • Many of these initiatives are already in place.†   (source)
  • The editor in chief has to be the one who takes the initiative.†   (source)
  • The more my parents bemoaned Hollis's lack of initiative and terrible grades, the harder I worked.†   (source)
  • He went there on his own initiative, and his job is on the line now too.†   (source)
  • The third initiative would be a twelve-year, $1.†   (source)
  • He says you've got no initiative either.†   (source)
  • He not only obeys orders, he also takes his own initiative when necessary.†   (source)
  • They're mountain soldiers, a lot better than you are, but we have the initiative.†   (source)
  • But often, the most discouraging moments are precisely the time to launch an initiative.†   (source)
  • The smaller wolf ( who soon gave concrete evidence that she was a female) took the initiative.†   (source)
  • You can't say I didn't seize the initiative with Sloan.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, the Promethean Scholars are working on a dozen initiatives that I know have value.†   (source)
  • When neither of us moved she appeared to decide that the initiative lay with her.†   (source)
  • But the girls' education initiative is hugely successful there.†   (source)
  • Socialism, he told me, discouraged hard work and destroyed initiative.†   (source)
  • It was so much easier to remain at rest than to summon the initiative to tackle the dangerous ice slope; so I just sat there as the storm roared around me, letting my mind drift, doing nothing for perhaps forty -five minutes.†   (source)
  • Something in their faces suggested that they were off to fight on their own initiative, so to speak, and had long since ceased to be part of such a precise, perfectly functioning machine as the army.†   (source)
  • It strikes me now that the Brinker-Smiths were blessed with good-spirited initiative, with an admirable and inventive sense of mischief—for how else could they have maintained one of the pleasures of conjugal relations without disturbing their demanding twins?†   (source)
  • I'll be working out of the embassy in Paris for the next few years overseeing a little initiative of ours, which is likely to keep me tied to a desk.†   (source)
  • If they catch her, she's obliged to keep the baby—that's part of the Storking Initiative too—but if they open the door and find nothing but the child, it's "finder's keepers" in the eyes of the law.†   (source)
  • But she had gone to work as a seamstress at the age of fifteen and had become a prominent garment union organizer, and what you learn in that world is that through your own powers of persuasion and initiative, you can take your kids to Carnegie Hall.†   (source)
  • I then say: "I'll take the initiative.†   (source)
  • Within Paradice, said Crake — and they'd visit the facility after lunch — there were two major initiatives going forward.†   (source)
  • Such an initiative would naturally constitute extremely weak impulses compared to the major's heavy artillery.†   (source)
  • Mae's friend Tania, never an activist in school, said she had been compelled to action by these atrocities, and she was asking everyone she knew to join in an initiative called We Hear You Ana Marfa.†   (source)
  • They take initiative.†   (source)
  • Then Florentino Ariza felt an urgent need to put a definitive end to that loveless relationship, and he looked for the opportunity to be the one to take the initiative: as he would always do.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, sex had always (or at least most often) occurred on her conditions and at her initiative.†   (source)
  • There on the third of January 1928, the historians tell us, was the launch of the First Five-Year Plan—that initiative which would begin the transformation of Russia from a nineteenth-century agrarian society into a twentieth-century industrial power.†   (source)
  • They took no initiative.†   (source)
  • At times the Doctor himself took the initiative and went on foot, if distance permitted, or in a hired carriage, to avoid malicious or premature assumptions.†   (source)
  • Who takes the initiative—you or him?†   (source)
  • California voters also came very close to banning the death penalty; the ballot initiative lost by only a couple of percentage points.†   (source)
  • First, he had no possibility of contacting my father for instructions, but on his own initiative he had decided to cut short my visit to Germany and send me home.†   (source)
  • I spent a lot of time in California that year supporting ballot initiatives and was encouraged that voters decided, by a huge margin, to end the state's "three strikes" law that imposed mandatory sentences on nonviolent offenders.†   (source)
  • Ont he occasion of the celebration of the new century, there was an innovative program of public ceremonies, the most memorable of which was the first journey in a balloon, the fruit of the boundless initiative of Dr. Juvenal Urbino.†   (source)
  • Then it was she who took the initiative, and gave herself without fear, without regret, with the joy of an adventure on the high seas, and with no traces of bloody ceremony except for the rose of honor on the sheet.†   (source)
  • "I told you five months ago to print my initiative and now another week has passed and you still haven't followed my instructions.†   (source)
  • Formally, AIA was the government's initiative, but the influence of industry was so great that in actual fact the AIA board was operating independently."†   (source)
  • They ate dinner rather late and only then did Salander take the initiative and force him up to the sleeping loft, where she saw to it that he devoted all his attention to her.†   (source)
  • It is one page, written in Hilly's fat, curly pen: Hilly Holbrook introduces the Home Help Sanitation Initiative.†   (source)
  • Without a doubt it was Dr. Urbino's most contagious initiative, for opera fever infected the most surprising elements in the city and gave rise to a whole generation of Isoldes and Otellos and Aidas and Siegfrieds.†   (source)
  • By official decree he personally designed and directed public health measures, but on his own initiative he intervened to such an extent in every social question that during the most critical moments of the plague no higher authority seemed to exist.†   (source)
  • She concludes the list with, "And of course we thank our anonymous contributor of, ahem, supplies, for the Home Help Sanitation Initiative.†   (source)
  • But Hilly's bathroom initiative is in the open center section with the paper where I wrote Jim Crow or Hilly's bathroom plan--what's the difference?†   (source)
  • "I want that initiative in the newsletter before election time," she says and points to the ceiling, "or I'm calling upstairs, missy.†   (source)
  • I will not print that initiative.†   (source)
  • "It's called the Home Help Sanitation Initiative--William Junior you get down or I will snatch you baldheaded Yule May get in here--and I want it in this week.†   (source)
  • Then I type Hilly's initiative.†   (source)
  • Then print the initiative.†   (source)
  • In fact, my satchel holds all the work we've done--Aibileen's and Minny's interviews, the book outline, a list of potential maids, a scathing, unmailed response I wrote to Hilly's bathroom initiative--everything I can't leave at home for fear Mother will snoop through my things.†   (source)
  • When I started typing out her bathroom initiative for the newsletter, typing words like disease and protect yourself and you're welcome! it was like something cracked open inside of me, not unlike a watermelon, cool and soothing and sweet.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, the team leader did not appreciate Max's initiative, and Max had been forced to endure a furious lecture about strategy, discipline, and unnecessary risks.†   (source)
  • From then on Rebeca did not say another word to Amaranta, convinced that her initiative had not the innocence that she attempted to give it.†   (source)
  • Max did not begrudge David's initiative to configure the room on his own; he used the room and its singular qualities in ways that Max did not.†   (source)
  • At last Eragon realized that he had to take the initiative if he were to ever have a chance of mending his relationship with her.†   (source)
  • She had to take the initiative.†   (source)
  • The most useful trick of fighting, he had discovered, was not some fancy twirl of the sword or some complicated feint that took years to master, but rather seizing the initiative and doing whatever his enemy least expected.†   (source)
  • Lee is the one to take the initiative.†   (source)
  • I watched his lips move until it subsided, picking back up as he said, "-really a collaborative thing, this whole new music initiative.†   (source)
  • Annabeth didn't feel particularly witty or courageous, but her instincts told her to take the initiative, or this would be a very short conversation.†   (source)
  • And Captain Vel and her lieutenant and troops had lost the initiative, lost any chance to disarm me, with Security in the balance but ready to tip my way, them and their stun sticks.†   (source)
  • No first years were supposed to be invited, but apparently she'd heard about that recycling initiative I did junior year, so … I was listening, even as I watched Adam push out another bike, this one a two-seater.†   (source)
  • On September 13, Stoddert wrote again, filled with apprehension "that artful designing men might make such use of your absence" as to disrupt the peace initiative and "make your next election less honorable than it would otherwise be."†   (source)
  • Dr. Stadler felt certain that this small-time shyster had had as little to do with the Project as any of the movie usher attendants, that he possessed neither the mind nor the initiative nor even the sufficient degree of malice to cause a new gopher trap to be brought into the world, that he, too, was only the pawn of a silent machine-a machine that had no center, no leader, no direction, a machine that had not been set in motion by Dr. Ferris or Wesley Mouch, or any of the cowed…†   (source)
  • Later, however, when Blackavar returned with Dandelion from a patrol they had undertaken on their own initiative, he came out more strongly against the idea.†   (source)
  • If she moved too quickly or with too much initiative, Orrin would perceive it as a threat and turn against her, especially now that she was cloaked in the glamour of the Varden's victory in Farthen Dur.†   (source)
  • Prioritize the following strategic components according to their importance in the scenario described above: Position, Resources, Initiative, Flexibility, Information Max sighed and glanced out the window; a number of older students were throwing Frisbees that bucked in the lingering gusts from the previous day's storm.†   (source)
  • Any mugger with even a little initiative is bound to be armed, for in a country like the United States, with a thriving black market in guns, anyone can get hold of one.†   (source)
  • That she had somehow taken the initiative to learn my name should have struck me then, but it did not.†   (source)
  • By his superb initiative, courageous action, and complete dedication to duty, Petty Officer Wasdin reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest tradition of the United States Naval Force.†   (source)
  • Max could not help but chafe as David and Cooper continued to discuss various news, rumors, and ongoing initiatives.†   (source)
  • The local authorities, after the armistice of Neerlandia, were mayors without initiative, decorative judges picked from among the peaceful and tired Conservatives of Macondo.†   (source)
  • In one of Adam's earliest performance evaluations while in Golf Platoon, Harley wrote: Despite his limited experience, Petty Officer Brown's initiative and determination ensured 100 percent success in his [platoon's] department.†   (source)
  • So around they swirled for hours-she, searching for emotions in him that she had long feared were absent, looking for something, anything, that might have bonded them together around the idea of a child; he, blunting her initiatives, seemingly telling her everything but the truth.†   (source)
  • Far behind them, like an island in the vast semi-darkness of the studio space, the drawing room prepared for their broadcast stood deserted and fully lighted, a semicircle of empty armchairs under a cobweb of dead microphones in the glare of the floodlights which no one had taken the initiative to turn off.†   (source)
  • He was neither optimistic nor pessimistic of his chances, having learned that in dangerous initiatives, battle, and escape, optimism and pessimism have no place.†   (source)
  • Even though Afghanistan at war was hardly the place to launch a new development initiative, he swore to himself he'd find some way to help these Afghans.†   (source)
  • You negotiate treaties and alliances, such as that with the Urgals, of your own initiative and expect me, and others, to abide by your decisions, as if you speak for us all.†   (source)
  • This initiative would focus on Africa but would also support--and prod--Asian countries such as Afghanistan and Pakistan to do better.†   (source)
  • So bearing all this in mind, let's consider a variety of recent gun initiatives to see the impact they may have had on crime in the 1990s.†   (source)
  • The bulb in the tent had blown out several days before, and neither of the two men had been able to muster the initiative to replace it.†   (source)
  • Some initiatives were grand and others were small, but all were engineered to slowly, methodically tip the scales in Rowan's favor.†   (source)
  • It was she who, on her own initiative, put aside the largest piece that she had cut from the wedding cake and took it on a plate with a fork to Jose Arcadio Buendia.†   (source)
  • But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that we had to take the initiative and this was the best way to do it.†   (source)
  • Adam had expected to be somewhere in South or Central America for Christmas 2001, but an initiative known as Force XXI—a massive reorganization of the United States military—had prompted the Navy's top brass to rethink the SEAL teams' areas of focus, organizational structure, and deployment schedules.†   (source)
  • This attitude, however, had come under question more and more in recent years, particularly after Robert Hardh, the general secretary of the Swedish Helsinki Committee, submitted a report which examined the prosecutor general's lack of initiative over a number of years.†   (source)
  • He had a continuous dull ache in his back, but he paced back and forth in his borrowed house, incapable either of relaxing or of taking any initiative.†   (source)
  • I am willing to suffer their frustrations because I must keep certain information and initiatives secret.†   (source)
  • That he had embarked on such an unprecedented mission on his own initiative, that he had undertaken his own one-man diplomatic campaign knowing nothing initially of the country, its language, and with no prior contacts or friendships to call upon, and yet carried through to his goal, were simply extraordinary and a measure of his almost superhuman devotion to the American cause.†   (source)
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