Object

• proceeding: He was of the opinion that the Council should not initiate legal proceedings on behalf of landowners.

• discussion: Parents can use the site to initiate discussion about drugs.

• dialog: The EU will initiate a dialog with the biotech industry in Europe, on inter alia control of dangerous pathogens.

• conversation: She is unable also to make the decision to finish a task and will seldom initiate conversations.

• prosecution: That the ability to initiate a private prosecution should remain unchanged.

Modifying Another Word

• formally: However, only the European Commission can formally initiate legislation so the ETUC has vowed to add to the pressure on them.

Preposition: into

• secret: You will be entertained and then initiated into the secrets of ancient India as you have never before seen it.

Modifying Another Word

• manually: Scanning can be initiated manually or automatically in accordance with a defined schedule.

• promptly: If treatment is not initiated promptly, a chronic course becomes very likely and the illness may become intractable.

• centrally: All respondents stated that networked learning had been centrally initiated and affected the whole of the institution.

• locally: Secondly, privatization does not seem to have been initiated locally but was influenced by the new global ideological orientation.

Used with why or when

• when: Operational Prevention ( OP ) OP refers to strategies and tactics initiated when violence appears imminent.

• that: A collaborative project with Dr. W Graham on merging of aircraft trailing vortices has also been initiated that involves experiments and numerical simulations.

Infinitive complement

• empower: Various projects have been initiated to empower more people to get involved with radical video production and screening.

Preposition: by

• elder: Marriages, initiated by elders, were arranged with the help of an ' aunt ' or the ' priest ' .

• government: German law was derived almost entirely from legislation initiated by the government.