What's the difference between approach and initiative?

Approach


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.
  • (v. i.) To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.
  • (v. t.) To bring near; to cause to draw near; to advance.
  • (v. t.) To come near to in place, time, or character; to draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood.
  • (v. t.) To take approaches to.
  • (v. i.) The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.
  • (v. i.) A access, or opportunity of drawing near.
  • (v. i.) Movements to gain favor; advances.
  • (v. i.) A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access.
  • (v. i.) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.
  • (v. i.) See Approaching.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
  • (2) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
  • (3) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: β€œTo effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
  • (4) Other approaches to the diagnosis of pancreatic pseudocysts are reviewed.
  • (5) These authors, therefore, conclude that this modified surgical approach is a viable alternative to the previously described procedures for resistant metatarsus adductus.
  • (6) By drawing from the pathophysiology, this article discusses a multidimensional approach to the treatment of these difficult patients.
  • (7) In the second approach, attachment sites of DTPA groups were directed away from the active region of the molecule by having fragment E1,2 bound in complex, with its active sites protected during the derivatization.
  • (8) Community involvement is a key element of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach, and thus an essential topic on a course for managers of Primary Health Care programmes.
  • (9) Thus, mechanical restitution of the ventricle is a dynamic process that can be assessed using an elastance-based approach in the in situ heart.
  • (10) This approach is suitable for the quantitative detection of proteins.
  • (11) Differentiation between these two types of lesions is of utmost importance since the surgical approach will be different.
  • (12) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
  • (13) Such an approach to investigations into subclinical mastitis is not feasible by means of either single- or double-parameter techniques.
  • (14) The clinical aspects, the modality of onset and diffusion of the lymphoma, its macroscopic and histopathological features and the different therapeutic approaches are discussed.
  • (15) Instead, the White House opted for a low-key approach, publishing a blogpost profiling Trinace Edwards, a brain-tumour victim who recently discovered she was eligible for Medicaid coverage.
  • (16) The in vivo approach consisted of interspecies grafting between quail and chick embryos.
  • (17) It is time to start over with an approach to promoting wellbeing in foreign countries that is empirical rather than ideological.
  • (18) The stepped approach is cost-effective and provides an objective basis for decisions and priority setting.
  • (19) The approach was to determine the relative importance of predisposing, enabling, and medical need factors in explaining utilization rates among younger and older enrollees of an HMO.
  • (20) These data, compared with literature findings, support the idea that intratumoral BCG instillation of bladder cancer permits a longer disease-free period than other therapeutical approaches.

Initiative


Definition:

  • (a.) Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.
  • (n.) An introductory step or movement; an act which originates or begins.
  • (n.) The right or power to introduce a new measure or course of action, as in legislation; as, the initiative in respect to revenue bills is in the House of Representatives.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
  • (2) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
  • (3) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
  • (4) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
  • (5) Needle acupuncture did, however, increase the pain threshold compared with the initial value (alpha = 0.1%).
  • (6) Sixteen patients in whom schizophrenia was initially diagnosed and who were treated with fluphenazine enanthate or decanoate developed severe depression for a short period after the injection.
  • (7) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
  • (8) Errors in the initial direction of response were fewer in binocular viewing in comparison with monocular viewing.
  • (9) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
  • (10) An initial complex-soma inflection was observed on the rising phase of the action potential of some cells.
  • (11) In the past 6 years 26 patients underwent operation for recurrent duodenal ulcer after what was considered to be an "adequate" initial operation.
  • (12) Plain radiographs should be the initial screening modality for a suspected foreign body.
  • (13) In the 153 women to whom iron supplements were given during pregnancy, the initial fall in haemoglobin concentration was less, was arrested by 28 weeks gestation and then rose to a level equivalent to the booking level.
  • (14) The degree of increase in Meth responsiveness elicited by the initial provocation is a major factor in determining the airway response to a subsequent HS challenge.
  • (15) At low concentrations of TFIC there is a more or less direct relationship between the amount of the factor and the number of initiated complexes formed.
  • (16) During the 1st h after induction of the sporulation process, the rate of protein synthesis increased to two times the initial value.
  • (17) Benefits increase with an individual's initial cholesterol level and decrease with the age at which an intervention is initiated.
  • (18) Charge data from the target hospital showed a statistically significant reduction in laboratory charges per patient in the quarter following program initiation (P = 0.02) and no evidence for change in a group of five comparison hospitals.
  • (19) The most pronounced changes occurred during the initial hours of nutrient and energy deprivation.
  • (20) Damage to this innervation is often initiated by childbirth, but appears to progress during a period of many years so that the functional disorder usually presents in middle life.