I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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action
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A relator owes no duty to the public to initiate any law enforcement action .
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Review the effectiveness of the nursing care provided and where appropriate, initiate any action which may be required.
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But at the same time, the self was complex enough to initiate actions and innovate new ideas.
activity
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By suggesting or initiating such activities , the teacher legitimates collaboration in the children's eyes.
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The children in the following example were using a collection of beads, and their teacher decided to initiate an activity .
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In this first example we see how a teacher is able to initiate a sorting activity following a child's chance remark.
campaign
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When he initiates a new advertising campaign he takes a risk.
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Yet another child initiated a campaign to save a giant tree from being cut down.
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The societies would need to initiate recruiting campaigns , and trade union skills and organization would be crucial to their success.
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The Star had initiated a campaign against the rules and regulations in 1932, but the effort was short-lived.
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He also initiated a staunch campaign urging retractions.
change
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Students spend two days a week in their own schools initiating and implementing change .
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Initiating progress Adjusting to given changes is one thing; initiating changes, particularly desirable changes, is something else again.
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The individual who initiates and manages change .
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If he could get a job, it might be easier to initiate some change .
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Do they initiate change and if so, what kind of change?
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It underlies and initiates the changes seen in development.
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His theory is therefore more able to explain change , and even to initiate change through the understanding which it gives.
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Pilkingtons have initiated a long-term change in strategic direction towards higher value-added products.
debate
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We must marshal our resources to initiate a debate .
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The Government's response has been inadequate and that is why I initiated the debate .
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The Duke has initiated an important debate , but it is not yet concluded.
development
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Current formulations place great emphasis on the role of maturation and psychological vulnerability in initiating the development of symptoms.
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He initiated the development of space-based photographic surveillance satellites and the Agena rocket stage to insert them into orbit.
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There is however, no justification in making their establishment an essential pre-condition for initiating rural development programmes.
discussion
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He also proposes to initiate discussions on planning procedures, within the context of the new statutory planning and local government systems.
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And at least he could rely on Freeborn to answer it without initiating a philosophical discussion about the basis of the self.
inquiry
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We have initiated an inquiry into the allegations reported to be in a forthcoming book by Patrick Tierney.
investigation
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But if you'd also been able to identify me then they would certainly have initiated an investigation .
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It is up to law enforcement to initiate a separate criminal investigation .
policy
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The Profitboss initiates policies and practices that ensure all employees are consistently treated.
proceeding
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The Act allows, for the first time, children to initiate proceedings and instruct a solicitor to make court applications independently.
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C., known as Fannie Mae, lenders have to initiate foreclosure proceedings 3 { months after the first missed payment.
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The courts construed this broadly to include the documents which initiated the proceedings , the pleadings and the adjudication.
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No one in the House has initiated formal impeachment proceedings against Mr Rubin.
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It initiated liquidation proceedings after the sum it was owed for components it had supplied reached £2.1 million.
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Only the three senior judges could initiate impeachment proceedings against the president.
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The Act allows children, for the first time, to initiate proceedings and instruct a solicitor to make applications to court.
process
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After all, it is much easier to initiate a peace process than to complete one.
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In 1911 he was initiated into the schooling process at the Ecole Primaire in Tours.
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But it is rare to initiate the formal process .
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It is up to citizens working together to initiate a long term process of communication, mutual support and joint action.
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Such agents could initiate an immunological process that becomes self perpetuating long after living organisms have disappeared.
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It could only have been relatively cool gases that could initiate accretion processes .
program
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Finally, after deliberation, it was decided to initiate the Peace Corps program despite misgivings about working under a military regime.
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In the years since Oakland initiated it, the program hardly received any local, much less national, notice.
programme
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As well as searching for arbitrage opportunities, computers can also be used to initiate programme trades.
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At the other, the researchers initiated an intervention programme .
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The Social Science Research Council initiated a research programme .
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Using these films as the main teaching aid, the company initiated a programme of management training for small shopkeepers.
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In order to attract new investment, the government has initiated a programme to update and extend its treaty network.
project
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Mud was not a sound reason to initiate the attic project .
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Resident at Balbirnie House from day one has been managing director Eric Brown, who initiated the project .
reform
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This led several members of the Congress to question the Assembly's moral right to initiate political reforms .
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Clinton, who initiated welfare reform , is now portrayed as blocking it.
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Therefore it is in women teachers' own interests, as well as those of their female pupils to initiate or support anti-sexist reforms .
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Some organized petitions which urged parliament to initiate reform , while most employed their money and influence to promote godliness.
research
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Another task is to initiate research of particular relevance to policy issues and to examine existing and proposal policy initiatives on employment.
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The Social Science Research Council initiated a research programme.
review
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Usually it is the landlord who initiates the review and the tenant who is obliged to serve the counternotice.
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A Labour government would immediately initiate the widest possible review defence commitments world-wide and set up an arms conversion agency.
scheme
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I interviewed the deputy head who had been instrumental in initiating the scheme and gained the school's consent for the study.
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The council initiating the scheme says it's important for residents to have some one who isn't official to talk to.
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However, old people who need help do not initiate such schemes .
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These organizations were to initiate a renewal scheme for one of the most deprived areas in Britain.
study
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Preliminary action was initiated in conjunction with the Strategic Study to discover more about the changing perceptions and requirements of clients.
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This occurred because we overestimated the effectiveness of disulfiram when we calculated the sample size prior to initiating the study .
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He initiated far-reaching studies of the clustering of galaxies.
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The researchers hope that their results will allow them to initiate studies in humans with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A large number of companies have initiated recycling programs.
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Peace talks have been initiated in an attempt to avert full scale war.
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The couple plan to initiate legal proceedings against the police.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But if you'd also been able to identify me then they would certainly have initiated an investigation.
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Finally, after deliberation, it was decided to initiate the Peace Corps program despite misgivings about working under a military regime.
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Goldstein fully expects an Architecture-Neutral Distribution Format product programme to be initiated during 1994.
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It is not clear what initiates HAPCs.
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The Profitboss initiates policies and practices that ensure all employees are consistently treated.
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The rebels appear to have initiated a new stage in the war when they crossed the border into Dagestan yesterday morning.
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They are the verbs which should initiate the style of movement needed to sustain a ballet.
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You may be initiating the correspondence.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He's one of the initiates, and in my opinion that counts for, and perhaps even excuses, a lot.
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Its esoteric meaning is of the domain of the scholar rather than the layman - of the initiate rather than the priest.
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Nothing can prepare the initiate for this first breathtaking vision of the planet for which he has been designated steward.
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Rising, he turned to the initiates and raised that cup, now glowing.
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The Lesser Mysteries, celebrated in winter, prepared the initiate for taking part in the Greater Mysteries the following autumn.
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The Nagas should be regarded as the initiates and the guardians of the ancient esoteric knowledge.