In 2004, the government began a resettlement initiative to move more than two million people away from the arid highlands of the east, proposing that these resettlements would reduce food shortages.

The German Federal Government began an initiative to obtain a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council, as part of the Reform of the United Nations.

He also established the Australian Council for the Arts ( later the Australia Council ), which began the tradition of federal government support for Australian arts and artists, an initiative that was considerably expanded by Holt's successor John Gorton.

The Kenya Ranger Strike Force initiative began in 2006 with a request from KMOD ; creation of KRSF highlighted extensively in KMOD White Paper on Military Cooperation for 2011-2016.

Opposition to Konoe's diplomatic initiative began at home.

Al Jazeera reported that the initiative began after Santos met with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and asked him to mediate.

It was further supplemented by the Cordoba Durchmusterung ( 580, 000 stars ), which began to be compiled at Córdoba, Argentina in 1892 under the initiative of John M. Thome and covers declinations-22 to-90.

Concerted French exploration of West Africa began in the mid-nineteenth century but moved slowly and was based more on individual initiative than on government policy.

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, corporations began to be chartered in greater numbers by the states, under general laws allowing for incorporation at the initiative of citizens, rather than through specific acts of the legislature.

Pearl Jam then began a boycott of the company ; however, Pearl Jam's initiative to play only at non-Ticketmaster venues effectively, with a few exceptions, prevented the band from playing shows in the United States for the next three years.

More recently, in 2005, the Yemeni government began to investigate rail connections as part of an overall initiative to upgrade its transportation infrastructure.

While this initiative was in process in the Gerald Ford administration, the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, which had jurisdiction over antitrust law, began hearings on airline deregulation in 1975.

Trinidad began the first round by cautiously analyzing the challenger's style, but the round ended with quick exchanges after Zulu took the initiative in the offensive.

In 2002, a partnership between Thurrock Council, Thurrock Heritage Forum and the Thurrock Local History Society began an initiative to place heritage plaques marking the famous people, events and organisations associated with Thurrock.

In 2009, they began their Red Road to Copenhagen initiative.

Nevertheless, Pine Hills continued to grow and community leaders began an initiative to incorporate Pine Hills into a city.

In early 2007, the Municipal Art Society launched the initiative ImagineConey, as discussion of a rezoning plan that highly favored housing and hotels began circulating from the Department of City Planning.

The French campaign to gain the initiative began immediately.

The Public Library of Science began in early 2001 as an online petition initiative by Patrick O.

On their own initiative, the city of Mesa began to acquire rights to the property that was divided among 33 different owners.

Twinning in Banbury began on 26 October 1978, at a public meeting held at the Post-Graduate Education Centre, and called on the initiative of the late Councillor Ron Smith, the then Town Mayor of Banbury.

From September 2003, continuity announcers and trailers began to refer to the channel by the fuller title of " RTÉ Network Two ", in line with a new RTÉ initiative to promote the corporate branding.

When Snedden lost the 1974 election, Peacock began to be seen as a leadership candidate, but it was Malcolm Fraser who took the initiative and deposed Snedden in 1975.

In November 1960, Thomas began covering then President-elect John F. Kennedy, taking the initiative to switch from reporting the " women's angle " to reporting the news of the day.

In the spring, it must have been, he began working on the play that he called The House, which later would be Mannerhouse.

Aroused by what they considered an evil influence, some members of the clergy, joined by city authorities, merchants, and master craftsmen, began the attack on the plays and the actors for what they called `` the abuses of the art '', but by 1582 some of them began to denounce the whole idea of acting.

In the afternoon, defense attorneys began the presentation of their cases with opening statements, some of which had been deferred until after the government had called witnesses and presented its case.

They borrowed a typewriter, raised about $2,000 in contributions, hired a secretary, persuaded a couple of young men to join them for almost no pay and began mailing out a collection of unstapled leaflets that they called Guideposts.

The French Revolution ( 1787 – 99 ) that began during his youth was also influential: Ampère ’ s father was called into public service by the new revolutionary government, becoming a justice of the peace in a small town near Lyon.

When blacks began singing adapted versions of these hymns, they were called Negro spirituals.

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, footy or Aussie rules However, late in the century the code began to decline in New South Wales and Queensland largely due to competition with other more popular football codes, as well as interstate rivalries and the lack of strong local governing bodies.

In 1600 he was called to Parma by Duke Ranuccio I Farnese to began the decoration of the Palazzo del Giardino, but he died before it was finished.

Stroustrup began developing C ++ in 1979 ( then called " C with Classes "), and, in his own words, " invented C ++, wrote its early definitions, and produced its first implementation ... chose and formulated the design criteria for C ++, designed all its major facilities, and was responsible for the processing of extension proposals in the C ++ standards committee.

In 1904, William Randolph Hearst began publishing his own newspaper in Boston called The American.

By the early 20th century the Liberals stance began to shift towards " New Liberalism ", what would today be called social liberalism: a belief in personal liberty with a support for government intervention to provide minimum levels of welfare.

Technically, five bit codes began in the 16th century, when Francis Bacon developed the cipher now called Bacon's cipher.

However, after 1998, it began to describe the drink as Cuba Libre – literally translated as " Free Cuba " which is the original name of the drink and how it's mostly called in Latin America.

Chaplin quickly began work in another role, touring with his brother — who was also pursuing an acting career — in a comedy sketch called Repairs.

In 1927, the Belgian Roman Catholic priest Georges Lemaître independently derived the Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker equations and proposed, on the basis of the recession of spiral nebulae, that the universe began with the " explosion " of a " primeval atom "— which was later called the Big Bang.

Thereafter, he began a massive program of monumental construction, paradigmatic for which was the state temple called the Bayon.

Love performing in London, England on her 43rd birthday ( 2007 ). With Hole in disarray, Love began a " punk rock femme supergroup " called Bastard during autumn 2001, enlisting Schemel, Veruca Salt co-frontwoman Louise Post, and bassist Gina Crosley, whom Post recommended.

She claimed that she was able to heal others and began to be called out to the bedsides of those whom the medical faculty had not been able to help.

Tramlink ( originally and sometimes still called Croydon Tramlink ) is a tramway system in south London in the United Kingdom which began operation in May 2000.

In 1974, it began a method of evangelism called Flirty Fishing, using sex to " show God's love " and win converts.

During November 1999, Compaq began to work with Microsoft to create the first in a line of small-scale, web-based computer systems called MSN Companions.

( Jitsuyo Jidosha began producing a three-wheeled vehicle with an enclosed cab called the Gorham in 1920, and the following year produced a four-wheeled version.

Kevin began playing a form of Frisbee golf in 1959 called Street Frisbee Golf.

An institution called Dartmouth University occupied the College buildings and began operating in Hanover in 1817, though the College continued teaching classes in rented rooms nearby.