Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Cf. F. initiative,
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
L. initialis—initium, a beginning, inīre, inītum—in, into, īre, ītum, to go.
In literature:
Silence is the element in which initiative thrives, but our school programs rarely provide any periods of silence.
"The Reconstructed School" by Francis B. Pearson
He had been initiated; he was a Sanford man.
"The Plastic Age" by Percy Marks
At our interview in Liverpool on the occasion of my initiation, he gave me a full account of this among other incidents.
"The Life Story of an Old Rebel" by John Denvir
He writes thereupon the initial of some other pupil in the room.
"School, Church, and Home Games" by George O. Draper
In the former, initial recombination may obscure the intense ionisation near the end of the range.
"The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays" by J. (John) Joly
Five-line initial of prologue and fourteen-line initial I of Esther i.
"Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University" by Anonymous
They have maintained that it curtails individual initiative and crushes enthusiasm.
"Craftsmanship in Teaching" by William Chandler Bagley
Initial to Book I 17.
"Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making" by William Hamilton Gibson
The capital initial letter is also rude.
"A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two" by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
One of these assumptions is that the concrete is initially unstressed.
"Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design" by Edward Godfrey
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In poetry:
'Tis not enough that you avow
Allegiance at my gates;
Many who bear the wattle-bough
Are not initiates;
"Bacchus [Excerpt]" by Bernard O Dowd
When I sat
Filing at
Your first point, and dreaming that
Your initial song should be
Worthy of posterity.
"A Worn-Out Pencil" by James Whitcomb Riley
To my garden here translated,
Foliage of this eastern tree
Nourishes the initiated
With it’s meaning’s mystery.
"Ginkgo Biloba " by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mother of the shadowed sphere,
Where we dwell and suffer now,
Lo! the initiate days are here,
Bright is thy dawn-lit brow.
"The Mysteries Of Eleusis" by Annie Adams Fields
There, initials huge, the Lion
Looms and measureless Orion;
And, as 'neath a chapter done,
Burns the Great-Bear's colophon.
"Processional" by Madison Julius Cawein
Then bring th' initials of the four
Fair rivers we have lingered o'er,
And you will find pourtrayed
A British statesman far renown'd,
One whose illustrious brows are bound
With wreaths that ne'er will fade.
"Enigma XLIX." by Elizabeth Hitchener
In news:
Ogden OUTreach and PFLAG, with co-sponsors SAGE and the Weber State University LGBT Initiatives, will present a screening of "Bullied," a documentary film on bullying, at 7 pm Monday in the Weber County Library, 2464 Jefferson Ave.
State-led initiative to leverage network speeds of 100 Gigibits per second.
Reno police say a homeless man initially believed to have died of medical causes was shot and killed with a high-powered air gun .
Initial air-stream adjustment is vital to the startup and successful operation of air doors and curtains.
Reno police say a homeless man initially believed to have died of medical causes was shot and killed with a high-powered air gun.
Its magnitude was initially reported as 6.9 but officials later revised that to 6.4.
The company initially focused on algae -based biodiesel but has since diversified into jet fuel and cosmetics—and food.
You Lift Me Up, pushed along initially by a pulling.
Board members initially chose a building option that called for bleachers on both sides of the gym.
District's Blended Initiative Aims to Personalize Learning.
His initiative could easily have had negative consequences.
100,000 initiative started to bring jobs to Box Elder County.
For those items with a parenthesis and a number, it means that organization has more than one service project approved for The Initiative.
The Chicago-based company completed its initial public offering Thursday with a 38 million-share sale that opened at $25 each.
Facilitating the smooth transition of all things IT for 100,000 personnel moves across 40 installations under the Base Realignment and Closure initiative.
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In science:
The trees An , n < ω , are connected by the following preperties. (i) If An is an initial segment of An , Am is an initial segment of Am and n 6= m then #An ∩ Am ≤ 1. (ii) For every I infinite subset of N, An initial segments of An , n ∈ I , such that An ∩ Am =
Weakly Lindelof determined Banach spaces not containing $\ell^1(N)$
Assume that (C, <) interprets G ∈ ΓK by I . D ⊆ C is a minimal (K1 , K2 )ma jor initial segment for I if D is an initial segment of C which is a (K1 , K2 )-ma jor segment and no proper initial segment D ′ ⊂ D is (K1 , K2 )-ma jor.
Random graphs in the monadic theory of order
For a given number of sites N , and a given initial strength d of the disorder, we have numerically implemented the renormalization rules on a given number (typically 100) of initial independent samples, to compute averaged quantities over these different realizations of the initial disorder.
Phases of random antiferromagnetic spin-1 chains
Inflation-Based Model for Isocurvature Initial Conditions Simple and arguably natural realizations of the inflation concept lead to adiabatic initial conditions; others to isocurvature initial conditions.
Issues for the Next Generation of Galaxy Surveys
If the initial state of the incident photon is taken to be |a+i, and the initial (or unmoved) state of the mass M is denoted by |M 0i, then the initial state of the closed composite system is the product state |a+i ⊗ |M 0i .
Why the Quantum Must Yield to Gravity
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