Initiative in sentence

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The second initiative was also home-grown, but is today a global movement to reform the international drug control regime.

Eight months ago, under the visionary leadership of Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, head of UN Women, we launched a groundbreaking initiative called HeForShe, inviting men and boys from around the world to stand in solidarity with each other and with women, to create a shared vision for gender equality.

The initiative is based on a simple idea: that what we share is much more powerful than what divides us.

I was part of that United Nations initiative called the Alliance of Civilizations, which was asked by Kofi Annan to diagnose the causes of extremism, and to give practical guidelines to member states about how to avoid the escalation of further extremism.

The richness and fullness of the dialogue in our democracy has not laid the basis for the kind of bold initiative that is really needed.

That's why I founded the Lazarus Project, a not-for-profit initiative to bring multispectral imaging to individual researchers and smaller institutions at little or no cost whatsoever.

And now, seven of the biggest engineering companies are piloting reentry internship programs for returning engineers as part of an initiative with the Society of Women Engineers.

So people hear about this study and they're like, "Great, if I want to get better at my job, I just need to upgrade my browser?" (Laughter) No, it's about being the kind of person who takes the initiative to doubt the default and look for a better option.

Then, about the initiative that Chris mentioned, that we decided to launch at AMD that we call 50x15.

We would like to create an initiative.

And a couple of years ago at AMD, we came up with this idea of saying, what if we create this initiative we call 50x15, where we are going to aim, that by the year 2015, half of the world will be connected to the Internet so that people and ideas can get connected.

So, it is really a rather lofty initiative, if you want to think that way, but we felt that we had to put a real stake up in the years ahead, that was bold enough and courageous enough that it would force us all to think of ways to do things differently.

And I'll come back to that in a minute, because I think the results so far have been remarkable, and I can only anticipate and get real excited about what I think is going to happen in the next eight years, while we get to the 2015 initiative.

And when we embarked in this initiative, from the very beginning we said it very clearly: this is not a charity.

It is an initiative that is focused on simple, accessible and human-centric solutions.

They can drive much faster and can take any rational initiative that can speed them up or the cars around them.

And that is why UNICEF and our many public and private partners are launching a new global initiative.

But today, I want to ask you this: What would happen if we asked children to design our cities? (Laughter) Back in 2009, I was introduced to a small group of people who wanted to start a child-friendly city initiative in Boulder, Colorado.

But I had never heard of a child-friendly city initiative before.

At our global health center, we have launched a new initiative with NATO and other security policy makers to explore with them what they can do to protect health system institutions during deployments.

Defense: That…wasn’t King Henry’s initiative.

If you're going to have an initiative like this in your city, you have to ask yourself two questions.

That's why the World Health Organization is developing a global anti-ageism initiative to extend not just life span but health span.

This community in Spain has decided to launch an international initiative to create more communities like it all over the world, by linking up with unions, by supporting organizations like LUCI, and by educating folks about the worker-ownership model.

If you're a union member, go to your union meetings, and make sure that your union has a worker-ownership initiative, and become a part of it.

It's about all of us stepping up to take initiative.

So if we can commit to this new, bold initiative, to this new, bold change, not only can we solve the 214-trillion gap that I talked about, but we can actually set the world on a whole new path.

If we started to think about food and how we feed our kids as a health initiative, and we started thinking about food as health, then I think we wouldn't have corn dogs as lunch.

Now, the next initiative to make the Learning Generation a reality is financing.

Or the 100 Resilient Cities initiative, which is leading a resilience revival.

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