What Butler has done is to bring the matter to the fore in order to initiate a public debate about it.

Simmons also helped initiate community conversations about the role of race and class in contemporary Cambridge society.

Matthew has said that he did not initiate any of the classroom conversations about religion.

They initiated that dream about the nature of sexual arousal.

Indeed, in mid-1952 she initiated a discussion with an announcement about the death of the helix.

In Serbia, he initiated discussion about previously little known subjects (such as the question of cultural patterns).

In Argentina, the film set attendance records and initiated a debate about the country's past.

The government initiated the plans about the Kuttiady project after the publication of that report.

Players will be asked to initiate discussions about any symptoms.

I think that the discussion process with Jordan can be a way of initiating talks about these issues too.