Sample Sentences for
initiative
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  • She showed great initiative by organizing the project without being asked.
    initiative = self-starting drive
  • I admire her initiative.
    initiative = willingness to act independently
  • For the second week in a row, I leave out Hilly's bathroom initiative.  (source)
    initiative = proposal or thing started
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  • Come on, Jacqueline, show some initiative .  (source)
    initiative = determining what should be done and doing it without instruction
  • 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)
  • Also, the individual soldiers were given little initiative.†  (source)
  • Within Paradice, said Crake — and they'd visit the facility after lunch — there were two major initiatives going forward.†  (source)
  • There were several attempts to snatch at them, but it was the mayor's wife who took the initiative.†  (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)
  • The project would eventually be named the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI).†  (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)
  • Started in 1964 as a federal initiative, Job Corps was designed to help disadvantaged youth.†  (source)
  • These theories were not only logical; they were also encouraging, for they attributed the crime drop to specific and recent human initiatives.†  (source)
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