Initially a joke designed to fill up blank space in the magazine, the weekly strip, detailing the mishaps and madcap ideas and inventions of a terminally idle office boy working at the Spirou offices, took off and became one of Franquin's best-known creations.

Initially, neither Lenin nor his ideas had widespread support, even among Bolsheviks.

Initially, Schumacher's ideas were rejected by both the Indian government and leading development economists.

Initially dismissed as an extremist, his ideas began to find more favour after the Young Turk Revolution and founding of the Second Meşrutiyet ( limited form of democracy ).

Initially, his ideas had involved running a school in the midst of ' life-conditions ' in Kingston with two dozen students, but contact with a young representative of the New Age Movement in the USA persuaded him to think in terms of larger numbers and a relatively isolated locale in the countryside.

Turbonegro playing at the Southside Festival in 2005. Initially the band had two running ideas for band names: Nazipenis and Turbonegro.

Initially a student of Martha Graham and a soloist in her company, he is considered the first choreographer to “ develop an independent attitude towards modern dance ” and defy the ideas that were established by it.

Initially only available as a two-door saloon when launched in April 1971, a three-door hatchback, using an identical body profile but with a full-depth rear door and folding rear seat, was launched the following year This was Fiat's first super-mini-sized hatchback, along with a state-of-the-art transverse-engine / front-wheel-drive layout, with the transmission mounted on the end of the engine, both design ideas had been fully trialled since 1964, by Fiat's Autobianchi subsidiary with the Autobianchi Primula and 1969 Autobianchi A112.

Initially Marxist-Zionist, the movement was influenced by the ideas of Ber Borochov and Gustav Wyneken as well as Baden-Powell and the German Wandervogel movement.

Initially the ideas of Scouting were implemented by Andrzej Małkowski and his wife Olga.

Initially, Akhenaten presented Aten to the Egyptian people as a variant of the familiar supreme deity Amun-Ra ( itself the result of an earlier rise to prominence of the cult of Amun, resulting in Amun becoming merged with the sun god Ra ), in an attempt to put his ideas in a familiar religious context.

Initially a socialist, he became an anarchist after 1880 and a popularizer of Peter Kropotkin's ideas.

Initially influenced by Jackson Pollock and Robert Rauschenberg-Rauschenberg's exhibition of grass seeds, Growing Painting, 1954, left ' a significant impression on him ' - he began to formulate ideas about ' chance method schemes ' that would eventually be printed as a booklet by the Something Else Press as Chance Imagery ( 1957 / 66 ).

Initially his ideas were not taken seriously by Indian mathematicians, and his results were published largely in low-level mathematics journals or privately published, but international fame arrived when Martin Gardner wrote about Kaprekar in his March 1975 column of Mathematical Games for Scientific American.

Initially, Holmes was not very enthusiastic, since she " couldn't imagine coming up with enough ideas ".

Initially, he shared the conservative views of the majority of his class, but by degrees his ideas changed and became increasingly radical.

Initially Grosvenor was, like his father, a Tory, but later he came to support the ideas of William Pitt the elder.

Initially the owner of the LEGO Company, Mr. Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, was hesitant, but presented with the early findings he became convinced that Roos and Victor ’ s ideas had value and decided to encourage and sponsor a commercial application under the auspices of the LEGO Company.

Initially he experimented with individual cells in series, each cell being a wine goblet filled with brine into which the two dissimilar electrodes were dipped.

Initially an innovation to aid the recovery of downed pilots, they were sidelined when the front became static.

Initially, balls of wool referred as ball badminton were preferred by the upper classes in windy or wet conditions, but ultimately the shuttlecock stuck.

Initially, there were 25 franchises, but the number of different operating companies is smaller as some firms, including First Group, National Express Group and Stagecoach Group, run more than one franchise.

Initially grateful, Jonah's anger returns the next day, when God sends a worm to eat the plant, withering it, and he tells God that it would be better if he were dead.

Initially, the Cossacks were commanded by Colonel Filon Dzhalalii, but after a few days he was replaced by Ivan Bohun.

Initially, some problems were experienced when it was commanded to track the Sun, but a series of software fixes were made and the problem was corrected.

Initially, it was suspected that the killings were committed by a Satanic cult ; later more killings were reported around the island, and many farms reported loss of animal life.

Initially in the production, the ethnic groups were not solidly established.

Initially, on 1 July 1867, there were four provinces in confederation as " One dominion under the name of Canada ": Canada West ( former Upper Canada, now Ontario ), Canada East ( former Lower Canada, now Quebec ), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick.

Initially however, these groups were small and conducted little active raiding into Nicaragua.

Initially these were uncommon events, but since WWII, these have been made by most presidents.

Initially, the idea of having Ball and the distinctly Latino Arnaz portray a married couple encountered resistance as they were told that Desi's Cuban accent and Latin style would not be agreeable to American viewers.

Initially the owners of AOI were the governments of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, before the latter governments gave their shares back to Egypt in 1993, valued at $ 1. 8 billion.

Initially, it was believed that low frequency fields that were too weak to cause significant heating could not possibly have any biological effect.

Initially, Brick and Click companies were skeptical whether or not to add an online e-commerce channel for fear that selling their products might produce channel conflict with their off-line retailers, agents, or their own stores.

Initially, most known exoplanets were massive planets that orbited very close to their parent stars.

Initially registers were limited to an accumulator and a multiplier register.

Initially, a number of nationwide systems were set up, such as Interlink, which were limited to participating correspondent banking relationships, not being linked to each other.

Initially, the victims ' corpses were buried in mass graves, but later were cremated.

Initially, many mathematicians did not accept this form of proof, but it has become more widely accepted in recent years.

Initially, its expense restricted it to wealthy consumers, but the price gradually dropped, until the 19th century, when tea became as widely consumed as it is today.

Initially based on the old 5x86 technology and running at 120 or 133 MHz, its performance was widely criticized but its low price made it successful.

Initially tasked " to connect military planning with research and development decisions ," RAND widely expanded in its scope beyond its original mission.

Initially popular with military officers, the Deringer became widely popular among civilians who wished to own a small and easily concealable pistol for self defense.

Initially using short " hillbilly " boy's names such as " Pete ", " Jake " and " Rufe ", the system was later extended to include girl's names and names of trees and birds, and became widely used by the Allies throughout the Pacific theater of war.

Initially a source of pride, the airport became an embarrassment, widely regarded in Canada as being a boondoggle and a white elephant.

Initially widely popular, the code would later assume secondary popularity in Sydney, when in 1907, the New South Wales Rugby League was established and would grow to be the favourite football code of the city.

Initially, they were sometimes used in applications requiring tamper-resistance, since the drive systems and screwdrivers were not widely available ; as drivers became more common, tamper-resistant variants, as described below, were developed.

Initially the devices were not widely used because of their expense, and the fact that valves were being made smaller, and performed better.

Initially kept under wraps as a secret weapon, it became widely used in battle by French artillery during the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 71 ).

Initially widely condemned in view of the heavy Irish war losses on the Western Front and in the disastrous Gallipoli V beach landing at Cape Helles ( the main nationalist newspaper, the Irish Independent, demanded the execution of the rebels ), the British government's mishandling of the aftermath of the Rising, including the protracted executions of the Rising's leaders by General Maxwell, led to the rise of an Irish republican movement in Sinn Féin, a small previously separatist monarchist party taken over by the rebellion's survivors, after it had been wrongly blamed for the rebellion by the British.

Initially popular, he too came to be widely detested by the 1780s.

Initially, the camera was used widely by fiction, documentary, and news cameramen throughout the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

Initially their acts were widely condemned by nationalists, who had suffered severe losses in the war as their sons fought at Gallipoli during the Landing at Cape Helles, and on the Western Front.

Initially, the SPSF covered a limited range of State public sector employees because of Constitutional limitations ; it was unclear until the 1980s how widely the SPSF was able to operate, particularly as a party to industrial disputes.

Initially greeted with scorn by critics and newspaper editors in the city of its gaze ( The Chicago Daily News famously called it a " Case for Ra ( n ) t Control "), it is now widely regarded by scholars as the definitive prose portrait of the city of Chicago, although it has never rivaled the literary status of Carl Sandburg's 1916 poem " Chicago.

Initially ARROW will be tested in four consortium partner institutions, prior to it being offered more widely across the higher-education sector.

Initially released by Czech publishers followed by western publishers Paul Hamlyn and Thames & Hudson with translated texts, Burian's work was later widely reproduced ( often as teaching material ) by European and American authors ( including Edwin Colbert ).

Initially developed for the automotive and aerospace industries, freeform surfacing is now widely used in all engineering design disciplines from consumer goods products to ships.

Initially popular, he too came to be widely detested by the 1780s.

Initially there was considerable resistance against these reforms, but the resulting standard is now widely accepted.