Remarkably little initiative to improve their lot seems to have emerged from the sailors themselves.

The chances of success do not look good; the European initiative has had minimal results and seems to be losing ground.

Rather, entrepreneurial initiative seems to have been an important stimulus.

Second, the major initiatives discussed here seem to have been poorly designed.

The initiative in Iraq seemed to slip away from the Americans last week.

Yet even with the unremitting pressures, their energy and initiative do not seem to have flagged.

So, private initiative seems to be dying off slowly but surely.

The bold initiative seems to be paying off in some imaginative new approaches to organizing schools.

In this light, an initiative for the European Union to coordinate investment policy seems just as normal.

The government's new anti-smoking initiative seems to be a success.