Costain noted in his foreword that he initially intended the book to be about Bayan and Edward I, but became caught up in the legend of Thomas a Becket's parents: an English knight married to an Eastern girl.

The British were initially caught off-guard and were thus slow to react, but eventually responded with force.

A battle against the latter turned out to be initially successful, until the young king was caught in a melee and killed by an Arab soldier.

Although he was initially ruled as being out of bounds when he caught the ball, it was determined that Porter had both feet in the end zone.

Fred managed the new store, and while sales were initially poor, the store soon caught on.

Though not initially appointed to ministerial office, a brilliant Commons performance in March 1952 against Aneurin Bevan in a debate on health caught Churchill's attention, and six weeks later, on 7 May, Macleod was appointed Minister of Health.

In 16, Wang commissioned two generals, Lian Dan ( 廉丹 ) and Shi Xiong ( 史熊 ), who were initially successful against Juting, but soon became caught in problems with food supply and plagues.

Most likely born in Athens, he supported the Athenian cause and wanted to help ; however, he caught the Plague " sometime between 430 and 427 BC and initially was prevented from joining the war effort.

The player initially takes the role of Sword, a character caught in a world made of many worlds.

He also labelled the mockingbirds he caught, and initially thought these were varieties but while arranging these bird specimens on the last lap of the voyage he began wondering if they could be species, a possibility which would " undermine the stability of Species ".

After being caught red-handed by security, Jinxo initially is tried for picking Gajic's pocket, but during the trial Gajic requests that Jinxo be released into his remedial custody.

One boat with over a dozen wounded men initially escaped, but later grounded, was caught by mutineers and pushed back down the river towards the carnage at Cawnpore.

Although he manages to defeat Captain America, Falcon, and Iron Man, he is caught off-guard when he is attacked by the Red Hulk, initially assuming that the Red Hulk is " Talbot ," a foe from the future, before the Red Hulk informs him with grim satisfaction that he is actually someone who Cable has never fought before.

Some of the steamboats were initially delayed due to high water on the river, which prevented the tall ships from passing under bridges, but they soon caught up with the other boats.

A recent example of this was in the 2007 Lord's test match between England and India when Kevin Pietersen was initially given out caught behind, but was recalled when television replays showed that the ball had bounced before being taken by Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

Charley initially was expected to hit further north in Tampa, and caught many Floridians off-guard due to a sudden change in the storm's track as it approached the state.

JK saw it initially as an experiment, but his performance caught the attention of Oasis Records in Korea.

Beginning on Friday August 21 and into September 2009, Susan Page of USA Today filled-in for the sidelined host, initially reporting that Rehm “ caught her heel in the hem of her slacks while she was dashing across the street yesterday afternoon, and she cracked her pelvis when she fell.

Carragher, young and caught up with the negative media reputations of that squad initially, learned to shun the spotlight and focus on football as new coach Gérard Houllier used him consistently in a new continental side focused on discipline and a new era.

In 2011, Key was caught up in a controversy over the purchase of government limousines which he denied knowledge of initially but later reports surfaced his office was aware.

The firm initially raised three rounds of venture capital but got caught in the " dot com bomb " and had to close down when it was unable to secure additional funding.

Leclerc had initially guaranteed that slavery, abolished by the Jacobin republic in 1794, would stay proscribed, however, the inhabitants caught wind of its re-establishment in another French-conlony, neighbouring Guadeloupe, in July.

Snively initially can't see Josh due to a stack of beer cans on his windowsill until it falls and Josh is caught infiltrating his backyard.

The smuggler is then warned initially, but if caught again faces punishment if a Zapatista or is turned over to the authorities if not.

Although the Nationalists had an advantage in numbers of men and weapons, initially controlled a much larger territory and population than their adversaries, and enjoyed considerable international support, they were exhausted by the long war with Japan and the attendant internal responsibilities.

Although it initially received widespread support from the diving community, the FINA requirement that international competitors had to be registered with their National Governing Body was a major factor in the abandonment of this ambition a few years later.

Zamenhof initially called his language " Lingvo internacia " ( international language ), but those who learned it began to call it Esperanto after his pseudonym, and this soon became the official name for the language.

Created in 1922 ( although the idea of an international court was several centuries old ), the Court was initially met with a good reaction from states and academics alike, with many cases submitted to it for its first decade of operation.

The idea for a router ( called " gateways " at the time ) initially came about through an international group of computer networking researchers called the International Network Working Group ( INWG ).

It initially attracted low viewing figures however after a concerted publicity drive Ten managed to transform the series into a major success, turning several of its actors into major international stars.

On 2 August 1990, Saddam invaded Kuwait, initially claiming assistance to " Kuwaiti revolutionaries ," thus sparking an international crisis.

In 2001, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad proposed a new currency that would be used initially for international trade among Muslim nations.

GMT either by that name or as ' mean time at Greenwich ' used to be an international time standard, but is no longer so ; it was initially renamed in 1928 as Universal Time ( UT ) ( partly as a result of ambiguities arising from the changed practice of starting the astronomical day at midnight instead of at noon, adopted as from 1 January 1925 ).

Reflecting international events dangerous to humankind, the clock's hands have been adjusted twenty times since its inception in 1947, when the clock was initially set to seven minutes to midnight ( 11: 53pm ).

The show was initially funded by government and private foundations but has become somewhat self-supporting due to revenues from licensing arrangements, international sales, and other media.

Immigration of international LDS members, mining booms, and the construction of the first transcontinental railroad initially brought economic growth, and the city was nicknamed the Crossroads of the West.

Over the last 50 years, since its establishment as the capital of Bhutan, Thimphu city has witnessed expansion, initially at a slow pace and rapidly after the country was opened up to the outside world in 1974 during the Coronation of the fourth King, Jigme Singye Wangchuck when international media were present, and which marked Bhutan's " debut appearance on the world stage.

The ATLAS language was initially developed by an international committee made up of representatives from the airline industries, military services, avionics manufacturers, and Automatic Test Equipment manufacturers.

Optus was initially allowed to enter the Australian telecommunications marketplace for national long distance and international telephone calls, with other players prevented from entering the general telephone market until 1997 and ' pro-competition ' mechanisms under the Trade Practices Act 1974-such as guaranteed access to Telecom's existing infrastructure on reasonable terms-meant to ensure its viability.

APRA initially espoused anti-imperialism, Pan-Americanism, international solidarity and economic nationalism.

Virgin will initially lease Airbus A319s for three daily flights between the airports, providing a link for international passengers flying to London.

It also appeared that Nagant was the first to apply for the international patent protection over the " interrupter ", although he borrowed it from Mosin's design initially.

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, initially called the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope ( GLAST ), is an international and multi-agency space observatory used to study the cosmos It was launched June 11, 2008, with a design life of 5 years and the goal of 10 years.

Produced by Milt Gabler, the recording was initially only moderately successful, but when it was used as the theme song for the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle, it became the first international rock and roll hit, and the first such recording to go to No. 1 on the American musical charts.

He initially insisted on reparations for the damages caused by American Indian raids, but agreed to let an international tribunal resolve this.

Having initially been designated Zivilinterniertenlager (" civilian internment camp "), in June 1943 it was redesignated Aufenthaltslager (" holding camp "), since the Geneva Conventions stipulated that the former type of facility must be open to inspection by international committees.

Gold's conclusion was initially not well received by the scientific community ; in fact, he was refused permission to present his theory at the first international conference on pulsars.

The band initially polarized audiences within the hardcore punk scene of California's Inland Empire before finding wider acceptance and, eventually, an international audience.

In early 2011 the government in Egypt blocked ( initially international, later all ) internet-access in the hope to stop protesters using the internet to organize protests against the government and also to control the news leaving the country.