initiate a proceeding

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• initiate — Verb: To start a movement. To commence something, for example a proceeding. To propose for approval. Idaho Power Co. v Thompson (DC Idaho) 19 F2d 547. To bring a person into an activity, a fraternal order, association, or social club. Noun: One… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

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• procure — To initiate a proceeding; to cause a thing to be done; to instigate; to contrive, bring about, effect, or cause. To persuade, induce, prevail upon, or cause a person to do something. Rose v. Hunter, 155 Cal.App.2d 319, 317 P.2d 1027, 1030. To… …   Black's law dictionary

• education — /ej oo kay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. 2. the act or process of… …   Universalium

• sue — vb sued, su·ing [Anglo French suer suire, literally, to follow, pursue, from Old French sivre, ultimately from Latin sequi to follow] vt: to bring an action against: seek justice from by legal process vi: to bring an action in court Merriam… …   Law dictionary

• HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

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• France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …   Universalium

• nuclear weapon — an explosive device whose destructive potential derives from the release of energy that accompanies the splitting or combining of atomic nuclei. [1945 50] * * * or atomic weapon or thermonuclear weapon Bomb or other warhead that derives its force …   Universalium