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• s  serving to set in motion
  an initiatory step toward a treaty

• Dienst ans Deutschland sneered: "German quarters consider the supposition not unfounded that the English leadership at the present initiatory stages .
• The EEOC has made little use of its "initiatory capabilities," opting instead for processing individual complaints when they are received.
• Aside from dancing, he is required only to be sexyin other words, himselfas he conducts an initiatory affair with Leslie Browne, and that he manages with aplomb.

• inaugural
• initiative
• first
• maiden