At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.

At first I thought he had missed.

At first Matilda could not believe her own eyes.

At the first restaurant he sensibly pulled up to go in for his dinner, and as a consequence did not see Cobb strike the open range at the mouth of the canyon and head straight across the swells for Antler.

At the first shot Russ had hurled his mount to the left toward the side of the winding draw.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

At first it had been just a romantic dream of his, the same as the idea of finishing Oxford after the war.

At first glance, this hero seems to be more rather than less of an individualist than any of his predecessors.

At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??

At this point Mrs. Frances Cupply, one of Wright's handsome daughters by his first wife, came from the house and tried to calm Miriam as she tore down a no visitors sign and smashed the glass pane on another sign with a rock.

At this point a working definition of idea is in order, although our first definition will have to be qualified somewhat as we proceed.

At the height of the first snowstorm we had, it was impossible for me to get medical attention needed during an emergency.

At two thirty he sent Fujimoto to the top of the wall at the northeast corner of the mission to keep an eye on the ridge road and give a signal when he first glimpsed the approach of Kayabashi's party.

At that time consideration will be given to whether in the light of the United States supplies of rice available for Title 1, disposal, India's production, consumption and stocks of food grains, other imports from the United States and countries friendly to the United States, India's storage capacity, and other related factors, any increase would be possible in the portion of the total rice programmed which is currently planned for procurement during the first year.

At first each child should do a kick-up by himself so that the teacher can determine those ready to work alone, and those who need help.

At first Barco was evasive and shifty.

At first the patient felt stronger, and the hemoglobin rose to 13.8 gm., but on Oct. 20, 1958, he complained of `` caving in '' in his knees.

At first I did not know what she meant ; ;

At any rate, Manchester did not lag far behind the first commercial system which was set up in 1844 between Baltimore and Washington.

At the very first, then, Brumidi was required, by the classically pyramidal shape of his central group, to fill in the triangular space above the seated girl on Liberty's right, before starting on the allegorical figures themselves.

At first the kitchen help was tolerant, but ordered their own supply of white bread for themselves.

At the end of the performance, Dave and Max came out into the brilliantly lit foyer among a surge of gowned and tuxedoed first nighters.

At the Fifteenth Anniversary ( 1896 ) as already quoted, Miss Upton projected with force and eloquence the Spelman of the Future as a college of first rank, with expanding and unlimited horizons.

At first glance, not much of a motive for a man of his standing ; ;

At first the Belgian royal family administered the Congo as its own private property.

At the start of a game, play is more or less random, the only strategy is to avoid adding the third side to any box.

At DAIMI, the CS department at Aarhus University, three CS students, avid players of XPilot and of Sid Meier's Civilization, which was a stand-alone PC game for DOS, decided to find out whether the two could be fused into an X-based multiplayer Civilization-like strategy game.

At the same time, the English were adopting a different strategy.

At the beginning of the Cold War, SAC was effectively powerless in shaping the American nuclear strategy it was tasked with carrying out.

At this point, politics entered into the formation of nuclear strategy in the form of President Harry S. Truman.

At the center of this strategy was Iraq's oil.

At this time, turn-based strategy computer games still had a decent amount of popularity, and many started explicitly supporting the sending of saved-game files through email ( instead of needing to find the file to send to the opponent by hand ).

At the most extreme end of this is the branch of strategy games in which the player assumes the role of an entire nation-state's government where not conducting war is a possibility.

At liftoff the engine typically burns both fuels, gradually changing the mixture over altitude in order to keep the exhaust plume " tuned " ( a strategy similar in concept to the plug nozzle but using a normal bell ), eventually switching entirely to LH2 once the kerosene is burned off.

At every stage the British strategy assumed a large base of Loyalist supporters who would rally to the King given some military support.

At the Spa circuit he nearly registered his first win while using a one stop race strategy, until Jos Verstappen's accident allowed all other cars to pit under the safety car.

At least one source considers Intellivision's Utopia by Don Daglow ( 1982 ) to be an early real-time strategy game.

At that time ( 1993 – 96 ) Hamas enjoyed rapidly rising popularity in the wake of their successful strategy of suicide bombings devised by Yahya Ayyash (" the Engineer ").

At a meeting of the 19-member Rio group in May 2003, Toledo proposed developing a joint strategy to deal with drug trafficking, but pressure from Washington, which preferred bilateral efforts, helped kill the notion.

At the same time, The Byrds began using the same strategy to promote their singles in the United Kingdom, starting with the 1965 single " Set You Free This Time ".

At a time when industrialisation was reaping major advances in naval technology, one American strategist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, almost single-handedly brought the field of naval strategy up to date.

At the start of World War I strategy was dominated by the offensive thinking that had been in vogue since 1870, despite the more recent experiences of the Second Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 ) and Russo-Japanese War ( 1904 – 05 ), where the machine gun demonstrated its defensive capabilities.

At the Tehran Conference Allied strategy adopted its final major component with the acceptance of Soviet conditions for a sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, to include eastern Germany and Berlin.

At this point, the Belizean and British governments, frustrated at dealing with the military-dominated regimes in Guatemala, agreed on a new strategy that would take the case for self-determination to various international forums.

At Marathon in 490 BC the strategoi debated and voted on strategy, but Callimachus the polemarch had a casting vote, and he was the leader ; it is disputed whether that means he was the real, or merely the titular commander-in-chief.

At the time, Pontiac's advertising and marketing approach was heavily based on performance, and racing was an important component of that strategy.

At the, a bad choice of strategy and a mistake from Räikkönen in qualifying ( 8th ) saw the McLarens get caught in traffic in the early part of the race allowing Michael Schumacher and Alonso to get away at the front.

At this stage the marketing manager adapts the list above to the needs of his strategy.

At the Battle of Red Cliffs in 208, Huang Gai suggested to Zhou Yu that a fire attack would be the best strategy to use in order to defeat Cao Cao's gigantic fleet and overwhelming numbers.

At Monza, he qualified 5th, despite carrying more fuel to try a different strategy with only one stop.