While encouraging, these initiatives only represent first steps.

But Treasury's environmental initiatives represent just a few of the steps we've taken to cut waste and improve efficiency.

An initiative represents an enterprise's readiness to embark on a new venture.

These initiatives represent important visions, but they may be a distraction in the debate about what needs to be done to modernise the Russian economy.

The initiative also represents a unique instance where the public directly decided to fund scientific research.

Yet, initiatives and referenda, in the final analysis, represent a much needed safeguard in a democracy.

The initiative represents the largest commitment of private money ever made to neighborhood renewal.

Ortega's initiative thus represented the birth of the crocodile industry in the Philippines.

These specific initiatives, however, represent neither the only nor the main use which the unemployed make of the Institute's resources.

The disease centers' initiative represents a sharp swing to civilian leadership in a field the military pioneered and once dominated.