1.   At a personal level, their relationship reflected their implicit agreement that the political initiative should rest with Paris rather than Bonn.

2.   I have already mentioned the failure of the paramilitaries to create and sustain a political initiative.

3.   This unanimity encouraged local leaders to abstain from political initiatives and to concentrate on local and day-to-day issues.

4.   To provide jobs she started a small jam factory and she sponsored left-wing republican political initiatives.

5.   Without a political initiative, however, it was hard to see how economic progress could be made.

6.   ...a political initiative which would prepare the ground for war.

7.   The communiqu also supported the political initiative declared by the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein which linked the Gulf crisis to the Middle East conflict.

8.   Pakistan had recently been under some pressure from the USA to formulate a fresh political initiative on Afghanistan.

9.   This extension of army powers, regarded as a blow to the authority of the government, came amid moves by the PPP to regain the political initiative.

10.   Approval of the draft constitution came amid renewed political initiatives by the government.