11.   Riordan hailed the decision and predicted that the City Council will comply with the order and the voters will approve the initiative.

12.   Sudbay also pointed out that voters in Colorado and Oregon approved ballot initiatives to require background checks at gun shows.

13.   Still, a close alliance between the National Action Party and the then-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, meant that presidential initiatives were usually approved.

14.   That danger was underscored when the upper house of parliament on Friday approved a Hashimoto initiative to eliminate almost all major restrictions on foreign-exchange transactions next year.

15.   The Border Environment Cooperation Commission, which is headquartered in Juarez, Mexico, has been slow to approve initiatives.

16.   The next step will be getting the initiative approved in the Senate.

17.   They are also planning marches and demonstrations to try to convince voters not to approve the initiative.

18.   Twenty-three states had approved ballot initiatives limiting terms of federal lawmakers.

19.   Washington state voters approved an initiative that all but eliminates a motor-vehicle tax.

20.   Whether the initiative is approved this fall or not, its practical effects are inevitable.