on one's own initiative
Example Sentences
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On the other hand, to render him forever silent without the lady's assent and confidence is to act on one's own initiative and assumes a knowledge of everything with nothing for a basis.
From Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux
If undertaken on one's own initiative it might be risky, and certainly always is a highly expensive affair.
From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by John M. Garvan
It is never permissible to wait until driven into action by superior commands, but one must always endeavour to reap, on one's own initiative, the utmost possibilities the situation holds out.
From Cavalry in Future Wars by Charles Sydney Goldman
