Troops were expected to have a high degree of self-initiative and reliance.

The phrase "God helps those who help themselves" is a popular motto that emphasizes the importance of self-initiative and agency.

Younger people are encouraged to take part in sports, festivals and exhibitions that promote self-initiative and positive thinking.

Experiential learning requires self-initiative, an "intention to learn" and an "active phase of learning".

Promotion of creativity, self-initiative and sole responsibility.

Indians and bison have returned by self-initiative and free enterprise, helped by the success of casinos.

Conscientiousness is demonstrated through employee industriousness, self-initiative, self-discipline, orderliness, and time management.

This patronizing attitude sometimes gets accepted by its victims and is central to the stifling of self-initiative and to creating a dependency mentality among Africans.

The Croat Theatre of Pécs is the first self-initiative institution of Croats in Hungary.

And once the company has those people, it "will see a building of 'self-initiative' behavior"-one of the important characteristics of people working in high commitment workplaces.

Despite the added barriers and obstacles faced by community college students, research has found that these same students possess high aspirations, and have shown self-initiative, and resilience.

The framework of the evaluation enables participants to address the actual realisation of the project: aims, objectives, motivation, expectations, actual activities, self-initiative, own project development, learning aspects - very much the volunteer’s contribution to the "action" in the host organisation.

No Way Out But Democracy Mr. Kostin envisages Soviet Moldavia's self-initiative helping Mr. Gorbachev in his task of "showing the conservatives there is no way out but to go forward with democratization."

"When you turn community service into a requirement, you drain it of the very values you want to instill: self-initiative, actual volunteering, going out and making the choice," said Scott G. Bullock, a lawyer at the Institute for Justice, a non-profit libertarian group in Washington.