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initiative

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An initiative represents an enterprise 's readiness to embark on a new venture. Generally speaking, the motivation for an initiative arises from a desire to accomplish something that would benefit the enterprise, such as improving productivity, reducing ...

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Initiative \In*i"ti*a*tive\, n. [Cf. F. initiative.] An introductory step or movement; an act which originates or begins. The undeveloped initiatives of good things to come. --I. Taylor. The right or power to introduce a new measure or course of action, ...

Usage examples of initiative.

It took the murder of my son and an extraordinary rallying effort to make people fight back against the thinking machines, after so many centuries of apathy and lack of initiative.

The United States is the peace police, but only in the final instance, when the supranational organizations of peace call for an organizational activity and an articulated complex of juridical and organizational initiatives.

Completely at peace widi a world in the midst of war, die biped ambled direcdy toward a small cluster of guards, bringing die need for initiative nearer and nearer, making diem sweat widi anxiety and creating such a panic diat diey forgot to itch.

Stuart Buffin undoubtedly witnessed was an Initiative Test, It is something that the Army has lately thought up to give employment to otherwise idle warriors.

Doubtless Old Conc was waiting for Xican initiative to assert itself in the realm of defensive fortification as well.

Only if the probability was very low that prospective tax cuts or new outlay initiatives would send the on-budget accounts into deficit, would unconditional initiatives appear prudent.

Colonel Charles Kades, an exemplary New Dealer who would play a pivotal role in such critical Government Section initiatives as the drafting of a new constitution, later spoke frankly of his own background in this regard.

Andre or Van Duyn could muster an answer, Springbuck seized the initiative.

Responding to such appeals, or acting on their own initiative, the State legislatures enacted measure after measure which entrenched upon the normal life of the community very drastically.

I would not for a moment be thought to say that those who are in favor of more democracy, through the initiative and referendum, are factionalists, and insincere in their view that that system will work a good result in the fight against corruption in politics.

I should have done was to attack the problem from the beginning and develop on my own initiative a fairly comprehensive theory of feedback mechanisms.

Bossk in there to talk with Fett, and have him propose exactly that, then my son would very likely have done it on his own initiative.

As Jim rode, his opponent broke into a canter, and a moment later Gorp followed suit on his own initiative.

His type of humaniform robot used initiative in many important ways, however, not just to determine large-scale courses of action.

Free Integrationists, and the latest in a string of antitax initiatives went down in the law books of Triton.