Initiated

Examples

• Thus, there has been initiated the development of a new and important industry whose possible ultimate proportions are beyond the range of present calculation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I accepted the invitation; was initiated; attended a meeting just one week later, and never went to another afterwards. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• By gradual steps, initiated in Starley’s Rover in 1880, (see Fig. 183), the high front wheel was reduced in size, until the proportions of the modern Safety (Fig. 184) have been obtained. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In reality we are witnessing a change of conscience, initiated by cranks and fanatics, sustained for a long time by minorities, which has at last infected the mass of the people. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The guests had been selected with a boldness and discrimination in which the initiated recognised the firm hand of Catherine the Great. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Once initiated there were but few public men who would have the courage to oppose it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The character and good faith of Nicholas II, who initiated these Hague gatherings, we will not discuss at any length here. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It no longer monopolized knowledge nor initiated fresh ideas. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The problems dealt with may be only problems of science: problems, that is, which would occur to one already initiated in the science of the subject. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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