proactive

Investigators have moved from being perpetually on the back foot to being more proactive, with the result that many exchanges have responded with new rules and controls that simply did not exist before.

Take a bank like M&T — they say they are being proactive, but from the outside, you really have no idea.

I don’t have the same implicit sense of how my team and colleagues are doing, so I need to be more proactive to check in.

It has a lot to do with very specific, proactive efforts taken by the generation of women above me who launched the Women in Topology network.

To do that, employers and hiring managers need to look at who is in their networks — if everyone looks like or acts like them, they need to take proactive steps to expand their reach.

These are reactive, not proactive, stances, and they do little to offer substantive solutions.

There seems to be a proactive disregard for knowing or caring about their lives and plight.

Without a dedicated and proactive rescue force, campaigners fear, the death toll in the Mediterranean will skyrocket.

Just as there are clear upsides to these types of proactive efforts in the corporate sector, there are downsides to not doing so.

The reality is something less proactive than reactive, not an initiative but a condition—a matter of identity.

So one cannot say that law, as opposed to politics, is not proactive.