A notable piece of initiative earned drew the attention General Allenby, and a mention in C-in-C's dispatches, following which he was recruited to be the head of Military Intelligence " B " Division, with responsibility for the entire Middle Eastern region.

The desire to impose order on the medieval street pattern of London dates back to the Great Fire of London ( 1666 ) when Sir Christopher Wren drew up plans for rebuilding the city on the classical formal model, but that initiative was lost.

The initiative drew international attention to Central America's conflicts and pressured for a softening of the militarist stance of the United States in the region.

White was chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, which drew up the Indian Removal Act of 1830, a major initiative of Jackson.

Participants in this conference included Joyce Hall, comedian Bob Hope, and Walt Disney, who became one of the founding directors of People to People and later drew inspiration from the initiative to create the " It's a Small World " attraction in 1964.

He is also known for his initially hostile response to the Harvard Living Wage Campaign of 1998-2001, an initiative that drew the active support of thousands of students, faculty, and alumni including the late Senator Ted Kennedy.

This initiative drew international publicity to the plight of the Haitian boat-people and U. S. discrimination against them.

He drew with rare facility, and determined to become an artist, practiced his work, on his own initiative, for more than a year in the sculpture galleries of the British Museum.

For a time the UDA looked to this spirit of Ulster nationalism for its own policy, with Glenn Barr, Andy Tyrie, Tommy Lyttle and Harry Chicken spearheaded an initiative in this direction which culminated in the production of the 1979 New Ulster Political Research Group document Beyond the Religious Divide, which drew up a blueprint for a negotiated independence for Northern Ireland, as well as a framework constitution for the new state.

Competing proposals and broad interest in the initiative led to strong disagreement over which technology to standardize.

The Svinhufvud Senate and the Parliament decided on 12 January 1918 to create a strong police authority, an initiative which the Red Guards saw as a step towards legalizing the White Guards.

The Southern Whigs hoped that by seizing the initiative on this issue that they would be identified as strong defenders of slavery.

Weinberger pushed for dramatic increases in the United States ' nuclear weapons arsenal and was a strong advocate of the controversial Strategic Defense Initiative, an initiative which proposed a space and ground-based missile defense shield.

The submarine telegraph cable received its definitive form through Newall's initiative, involving the use of gutta percha surrounded by strong wires.

Saionji held the strong opinion that the nobles of the Imperial Court should seize the initiative and take part in the war.

Possibly inspired by the earlier example of the American Tennessee Valley Authority initiative of the New Deal administration of President Franklin D Roosevelt, but undoubtedly determined to address the very strong popular sentiment of the immediate post-war period for a more equitable distribution of the resources and benefits of a modern economy, Johnston strove hard and successfully to win over all interested parties, including generally reluctant landowners, to the goal of harnessing the ( then ) scarcely developed but naturally well-suited geography and climate of the Scottish Highlands to the generation of electricity by water power.

The mission of the United States Coast Guard Academy is to graduate young men and women with sound bodies, stout hearts and alert minds, with a liking for the sea and its lore, and with that high sense of Honor, Loyalty and Obedience which goes with trained initiative and leadership ; well-grounded in seamanship, the sciences and the amenities, and strong in the resolve to be worthy of the traditions of commissioned officers in the United States Coast Guard, in the service of their country and humanity.

It is a major initiative of Guronasyon Foundation, Inc. with Dr. Gilberto M. Duavit and a priority project of the Province of Rizal Education Development Advisory Council ( PREDAC ) together with the strong support of Governor Casimiro A. Ynares, III and the University of Rizal System.

He argued that parliament represented a strong cross-section of Canada's population, saying that parliamentary initiative on constitutional reform could save millions of dollars on " needless commissions ".

Kasparov rose to the challenge with an excellent move picked from alternatives which would have let the World Team take a strong initiative.

A strong backlash against any initiative associated with family planning followed the highly controversial program, which continues into the 21st century.

0-0 ( 6. Ng5 is an interesting alternative: after 6 ... 0-0 7. Bxf7 + Rxf7 8. Ne6 Qe8 9. Nxc7 Qd8 10. Nxa8, White is material up, but Black can develop a strong initiative after, for example, 10 ... b5 11. Nxb5 Qa5 +) 6 ... 0-0 7. a4 ( to prevent ... b5 ) 7 ... c6 ( see diagram ).

This was played in the famous " Opera Box game ", when Paul Morphy as White declined to win the pawn but retained a strong initiative after 7 ... Qe7 8. Nc3.

The initiative was met with strong opposition from the communist administration of the country.

Potter advocated for a change to that system, advocating for a " strong mayor " initiative in the May 2007 election.

This initiative met with strong opposition from Hillary Clinton.

The initiative first produced results in the Millwall ward in October 1992 when a strong canvassing effort by local activists saw BNP candidate Barry Osborne capture 20 % of the vote in a by-election.

The push with 4 ... e3 is often used by strong players to avoid the complications arising from 4 ... exf3 5. Nxf3, but it is one of Black's weaker options against the Blackmar-Diemer as returning the pawn in this way does not significantly slow down White's initiative, and thus Black struggles to fully equalize in this line.

Rommel continued to hold the initiative, building up his strength in the Cauldron and sending out thrusts at the various opposing strong points.

A strong backlash against any initiative associated with family planning followed the highly controversial program, which continues ( in part ) into the 21st century.

Rather than fighting a defensive battle from a strong position because he was outnumbered 2 to 1, giving time for the rest of Pope's army to arrive, he decided to take the initiative and attack Jackson before he could fully form his lines.

During the beginning of the 20th century some production companies tried to maintain a level of constant production but lack of government support and a strong international industry ended up diminishing initiative.

Envisaging that Operation Wilfred would provoke a furious enemy response notwithstanding the preparations already underway in their Baltic ports, a parallel initiative called Plan R4 was ordered to prevent German landings by sending strong British and French forces to occupy the key Norwegian ports of Narvik, Stavanger, Bergen and Trondheim before marching to the Swedish frontier and taking control of the iron ore sites.

The State Council acts by virtue of the NPC's authority and there has been at least one case where the NPC has outright rejected an initiative of the State Council and a few cases where the State Council has withdrawn or greatly modified a proposal in response to NPC opposition.

The term was first widely used in the United States by advocates of the American Medical Association in opposition to President Harry S. Truman's 1947 health-care initiative.

The initiative met with opposition from local and environmental groups, who were concerned that the plant would release cancer-causing toxins into nearby residential neighborhoods.

" She voiced her opposition to Proposition 8, the successful ballot initiative, which defined marriage in California as a union between one man and one woman.

A similar initiative, but also including Holstein, had been attempted in 1855, but proved a failure because of the opposition of the people in Schleswig and their support in German states.

In May 1997, the " Society for German Spelling and Language Cultivation – initiative against the spelling reform " ( Verein für deutsche Rechtschreibung und Sprachpflege e. V. ( VRS ) – Initiative gegen die Rechtschreibreform ) was founded in opposition to the German spelling reform.

However, it was not on the platform of either the Stanley Bruce-led Nationalist / Country party coalition government or the Matthew Charlton-led Labor opposition to introduce this requirement ; rather, the initiative was taken by a backbench Tasmanian senator from the Nationalists, Herbert Payne, who introduced a Private Senator's Bill, the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1924, on 16 July 1924.

During Negroponte's tour as US Ambassador to Mexico, he was instrumental in persuading the Bush administration to respond to a Mexican initiative by negotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement despite initial opposition by the U. S. Office of Trade Representative.

This support, as well as that of the United Nations and a number of other international bodies, failed to compensate for President Reagan's opposition to the initiative, however.

The several months leading to the May elections saw several presidential scandals, Arroyo reversing her earlier decision not to run for president, the sudden but not unexpected candidacy of Fernando Poe, Jr., defection of key political figures from the Arroyo camp to the opposition, the controversial automated elections initiative of the COMELEC, and the split of the dominant opposition party, Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino, between Poe and Panfilo Lacson.

" This approach, made at the height of German expansion and nadir of anti-Hitler opposition, represented the first initiative to come from the front and from the Army, as Ulrich von Hassell noted in his diary.

Also in 1986, the " Prevent AIDS Now Initiative Committee " ( PANIC ) got an initiative on the California ballot, Proposition 64 ( also known as the " LaRouche Initiative "), which attracted widespread opposition and was defeated that November.

He banned naxalite organisations in Chattisgarh in 2005 under the " Salwa Judum " initiative, a move supported by the opposition party as well, led by Mahendra Karma which has also been criticised. In August 2012, the CAG ( comptroller and auditor general ) of India reported a huge coal allocation scam in chattisgarh.

Conway's grandfather, Thomas Murray, had championed a similar initiative in the 1930s, and was disappointed when Mitchell Hepburn backed away from a previous commitment in the face of Protestant opposition.

* In early 2005, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed a ballot initiative to require new public employees to join a 401 ( k )- like plan, but dropped the proposal after opposition to a provision in the initiative to " reduce benefits for widows of officers and firefighters killed in the line of duty ".

Soon, the initiative grew into a mass campaign widely supported by students and opposition activists.

* 21 March The Inkatha Freedom Party rejects an initiative by President De Klerk to bring it into the election and starts planning a campaign of opposition to the Interim Constitution and April's election

The camp at Berg was founded upon an initiative in the fall of 1941 from Norwegian officials Nasjonal Samling and with some opposition from the German occupying authorities, Wilhelm Rediess in particular.

Despite the support of over half of the Members of the United Nations, a number of major international powers have expressed opposition to the initiative, including India, China, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

The initiative then floundered in face of opposition from Lord John Russell and Robert Vernon Smith in the Commons, and from Tories, with widespread indifference.