initiative

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Both initiatives were designed to support replanting the hundreds of thousands of trees across Aberdeenshire lost to Storms Arwen and Corrie.

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"A local government's tabling or rejecting of such a measure doesn't by any means mean the initiative is dead," he told the BBC.

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"So we've run lots of initiatives to try and break down barriers to music."

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Its director Rachel Watson is quoted by the Sunday Times as saying she was willing to use the watchdog's "power of initiative" given the "sensitivities" of the case.

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"At present, no one has seriously discussed this initiative, and to my knowledge, it is not in preparation," Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov told reporters, according to Russian news agencies.

From Barron's