11.   They take the initiative, come up with technological and organizational innovations, devise new solutions to old problems.

12.   Un thinking, I took an initiative.

13.   We must take the initiative in the struggle to end the war.

14.   Women frequently say that they feel awkward taking the initiative in sex.

15.   His call for the Israeli government to take the initiative for peace was interpreted as an appeal for a freeze on Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories.

16.   Alternatively, taking the initiative might entail making the manager or employer aware of his or her responsibility.

17.   Engineers should take the initiative and look for opportunities to encourage greater awareness of risk issues within their organisation.

18.   It was, therefore, open to misrepresentation and special pleading, to accepting what it was told by the party that secured or took the initiative.

19.   Taking the initiative BMK is revamping its products with the launch of new ranges and major changes to its established products.

20.   But Downes, at least for the moment, had taken the initiative.