taken the initiative

Proper worship would have been impossible if God had not taken the initiative to make himself known.

It is good that China has taken the initiative in proposing that this matter be discussed at our ASEM summit tomorrow.

But executives said it was the first time the government had taken the initiative to start such a dialogue.

The people have taken the initiative as well, launching websites to track bribery, though government censors have been blocking them.

Yet over the past few weeks it has taken the initiative, scoring what amounts to a hat trick.

The employee has taken the initiative in relation to termination of the hotel.

It appears that Sun believes this too, since they have taken the initiative to redesign the plug-in and to create JavaFx.

The good news is, these days many vendors have taken the initiative to provide reentrant versions of the standard C library.

But where other nations have declined to take risks in investing in unstable or fragile regimes, China has taken the initiative.

Some women have taken the initiative to protect themselves before marriage.

In 1902, President Roosevelt had taken the initiative to activate the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague.

Understand that God has already taken the initiative.

A tribe by itself, they've already taken the initiative to plant.

Burdened with no fardel of the past, he has boldly taken the initiative.

Although I have in front of you unhappy . . . but, since the teacher that you have taken the initiative step back.

he has taken the initiative to eliminate or lessen the harmful consequences occasioned by his illegal act;