He wasn't shy, but lacked initiative to stand up and take a lead.

Some parents will always lack information or initiative.

Some mothers answer all the time for the children, which makes the Committee think the child lacks initiative.

Even when a mother knows she is very depressed, she may lack the energy and initiative to seek help on her own.

His teammates appeared to lack the movement and initiative that was an important part of their success.

Such students may seem to lack initiative and may even be dismissed as dull.

There is no comprehensive studies programme, and the country lacks "environmental initiative".

"Women lack initiative; after one killing they're content," Holmes says.

But the rest of them lacked Colene's ready intelligence and initiative.

It is not that the heroine lacks intelligence or initiative.