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- Kun Sokkea in front of the Overlake School in Cambodia (Nicholas D. Kristof) "This project is simply the most meaningful and worthwhile initiative that I have undertaken in my thirty-six years in education," Frank Grijalva said.†
Chpt 1initiative = the ability and tendency to determine what should be done and to start doing it without instruction; or to start something
- This pattern persisted ever since: Only a few have held the monopoly on initiative because they alone have had the social tools.†
Chpt 3 *
- The bill would also create an Office of Women's Global Initiatives in the immediate office of the secretary of state, and a Women's Global Development Office in the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).†
Chpt 4initiatives = things that were started or proposed
- In 1987, partly as a result of Allan's landmark article in The Lancet, a UN conference convened in Nairobi to launch the Safe Motherhood Initiative; the goal was to "reduce maternal mortality by 50 percent by the year 2000.†
Chpt 7initiative = the ability and tendency to determine what should be done and to start doing it without instruction; or to start something
- It's because of encouragement from evangelicals, including Michael Gerson, a former White House chief speech writer, that George W. Bush sponsored his presidential initiative to fight AIDS—the best single thing he ever did, arguably saving more than 9 million lives.†
Chpt 8
- Michael Horowitz, an agitator for humanitarian causes based at the Hudson Institute in Washington, has rallied religious conservatives to back an initiative to repair obstetric fistulas.†
Chpt 8
- Village chiefs and school officials were enthusiastic, and they held a community meeting in which they pledged grassroots support for an initiative to educate girls—if Ann could help defray the costs.†
Chpt 10
- In Jordana's case, her initiative started when she was about ten years old and her mother, Lisa Alter, tried to expose her daughters to problems in the rest of the world.†
Chpt 13
- * One exception: Successful public health initiatives have sometimes been directed from the treetops.†
Chpt 13initiatives = things that were started or proposed
- We would like to see a grassroots campaign bringing together feminist organizations and evangelical churches and everyone in between, calling on the president and Congress to pass three specific initiatives.†
Chpt 14
- This initiative would focus on Africa but would also support—and prod—Asian countries such as Afghanistan and Pakistan to do better.†
Chpt 14initiative = the ability and tendency to determine what should be done and to start doing it without instruction; or to start something
- The second initiative would be for the United States to sponsor a global drive to iodize salt in poor countries, to prevent tens of millions of children from losing approximately ten I.Q. points each as a result of iodine deficiency while their brains are still being formed in the uterus.†
Chpt 14
- Canada already sponsors the Micronutrient Initiative, which supports iodization of salt, but there is far more work to be done—and it is appalling that so many girls will suffer irreversible brain damage when by one estimate a mere $19 million would pay for salt iodization in the countries that still desperately need it.†
Chpt 14
- The third initiative would be a twelve-year, $1.6 billion project to eradicate obstetric fistula, while laying the groundwork for a major international assault on maternal mortality.†
Chpt 14
- Traditionally, this was what brought people to churches or other religious institutions, but any movement or humanitarian initiative can provide a sense of purpose that boosts one's happiness quotient.†
Chpt 14
Definitions:
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(initiative) the ability and tendency to determine what should be done and to start doing it without instruction
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to start somethingThe exact meaning of starting something depends upon the context. For example:- "She did it on her own initiative." -- started it without anyone telling her to
- "She seized the initiative." -- started actions that force others to react to her rather than her having to react to them
- "the peace initiative" -- a plan or the start of actions to bring about something
- "a ballot initiative" -- a proposed law that is started by citizen petition rather than by the legislature (applicable in many jurisdictions such as California)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)