Initially, he wanted to entrust Cao Fang to his uncle Cao Yu ( 曹宇 ), who would serve as a regent along with Xiahou Xian ( 夏侯獻 ), Cao Shuang, Cao Zhao ( 曹肇 ), and Qin Lang ( 秦朗 ).

Initially, Cao Shuang and Sima Yi shared power, but Cao Shuang quickly used a number of political maneuvers to honor Sima with honorific titles including Grand Tutor while stripping his actual power.

Initially, Zhang Lu had no hope of standing against Cao Cao's armies, and planned to surrender.

Initially the party of the Malaysian Chinese Association was pro-ROC and mainly consisted of Kuomintang members who joined as an alternative and were also in opposition to the Malayan Communist Party, supporting the Kuomintang in China by funding them with the intention of reclaiming the Chinese mainland from the communists.

Initially a small branch of the Sturmabteilung ( the " Brownshirts " or Stormtroopers, abbreviated in German as SA ), the SS grew in size and power due to its exclusive loyalty to Adolf Hitler, as opposed to the SA, which was seen as semi-independent and a threat to Adolf Hitler's hegemony over the party.

Initially, the party was known by the combination initials SED-PDS ; this practice was dropped on 4 February 1990, after which the party was known solely as the PDS.

Initially the SED had a branch in West Berlin, but in 1962 that branch became a separate party called the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin ( Sozialistische Einheitspartei Westberlins-SEW ).

Initially adopting a traditionalist Leninist party organization, together with a vanguard cadre from its labour-leaning faction in 1958, the PAP Executive later expelled the leftist faction, bringing the ideological basis of the party into the centre, and later in the 1960s, moving further to the right.

Initially, they encouraged party members to vote out their leaderships.

Initially cautious ( as enemies of the regime had been executed before ), Theramenes and his party were emboldened and galvanized into action by several events.

Initially the judge found in Spill's favour, but ultimately it was judged that neither party held an exclusive claim and the true inventor of celluloid / xylonite was Alexander Parkes, due to his mention of camphor in his earlier experiments and patents.

Initially a passionate supporter of Parnell, he became disenchanted with his leader after the first clash occurred in 1886 when Healy opposed Parnell's party nomination of Captain William O ’ Shea to stand for Galway City.

Initially, there was much resistance within the movement against the founding of a political party, motivated by Robert Michels ' iron law of oligarchy, which claims that movements inevitably degenerate into oligarchies when they create a formal organization.

Initially on 2 December, Benazir Bhutto formed a coalition government with MQM, a liberal party, as her ally.

Initially treated as a robbery, the case remained unsolved until a group of Hope students produced a documentary that uncovered a sex and drugs party atmosphere at the hotel, which had been occupied by dozens of Wackenhut security guards ( assigned to protect the facilities of local manufacturer Chemtron during a bitter strike ).

Initially, the Japanese believed that, due to his Nazi party membership and German ties, Sorge was an Abwehr agent.

Initially keeping the French version of the old party name ( Parti de la liberté et du progrès ), the party relaunched as the Party of Reforms and Freedom of Wallonia ( Parti des réformes et de la liberté de Wallonie, PRLW ) after taking over the Walloon Rally.

Initially Cumann na nGaedheal had been popular as the party that had established the state, but by 1932, their economic conservatism and continued repression of anti-Treaty Republicans was becoming unpopular.

Initially targeting leader of the opposition Vali Khan and his opposition National Awami Party ( NAP ), also a socialist party.

Initially the CDA preferred to continue its right-wing coalition with the VVD, but they did not have sufficient seats in the House of Representatives to continue in government without the support of a third party.

Initially, only Alexandra Kollontai rallied to Lenin's position within the Bolshevik party.

Initially the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) participated, but the then party leader Gordon Wilson, along with Jim Sillars, decided to withdraw the SNP from participation owing to the convention's unwillingness to discuss Scottish independence as a constitutional option.

Initially, Camejo was a member of the Socialist Workers Party, a Trotskyist party.

Initially the party was called Democrats-Shinui, but was soon changed to the Democratic Movement for Change and, as with many parties in Israel, became popularly known by its acronym, Dash.

Initially, Perrin ignored the court when he was summoned, but after receiving a letter from Calvin, he acquiesced and appeared quietly before the Consistory.

Initially, of course, it had appeared that the war would be a short one settled in Germany's favor.

Initially, Saddam Hussein appeared to take in this opinion as part of his cabinet democracy.

Initially, the new staff system appeared more ambitious on paper than in practice ; the increase in the size of the staff was quite modest at the start.

Initially published by JC Comics in JCP Features # 1, ( December 1981 ), in March 1983, the first issue of Mighty Crusaders appeared, leading to a procession of new titles under the Red Circle Comics banner, soon to be re-branded ( in February 1984 ) the Archie Adventure Series, before cancellation in September 1985.

Initially appeared as a henchman of " Badger " Courage (" I don't take bribes!

Initially all locomotives were powered by clockwork, but the first electric power appeared in autumn 1923.

Initially an average runtime of 5 minutes was achieved before hardware problems appeared.

Initially, the character of Saavik, who appeared in the second through fourth Star Trek films, was intended to be the traitor, but Gene Roddenberry objected to making a character loved by fans into a villain.

Initially the new Act appeared successful: in 1917 there were 5, 151 convictions for all crimes across Alberta, as compared to an annual average of 12, 706 over the preceding four years.

Initially, PM was based on Windows GUI code, and often had developments performed in advance, like the support for proportional fonts ( which appeared in Windows only in 1990 ).

In 1885 the Post Office established a Special Delivery service, issuing a ten-cent stamp depicting a running messenger, along with the wording “ secures immediate delivery at a special delivery office .” Initially, only 555 such offices existed but the following year all U. S. Post Offices were obliged to provide the service — an extension not, however, reflected on the Special Delivery stamp until 1888, when the words “ at any post office ” appeared on its reprint.

Initially he had appeared to favour the Māori, he became neutral and then began to support the claims of the New Zealand Company.

Initially The Leninist appeared to some to be a Stalinist publication in its politics, but over time it mutated into something very different.

Initially, he appeared on WWF shows with the " Big Gold Belt ," calling himself " The Real World Champion.

Initially searching for a bacterial cause for travertine deposition, scanning electron microscope examination of the mineral where no bacteria were detectable revealed extremely small objects which appeared to be biological.

Initially it appeared that he was safe in Etawah, which was not far from Meerut where the rebellion began.

Initially, Fox appeared to promote the show to its American audience as a massive practical joke played on some snobby European women, who were shown nursing champagne-induced hangovers and depicted as turning up their noses at assimilating the lifestyle of an American cowboy.

Initially they did not get on, as Hunt's interests, personality, and private life appeared to have little in common with Walker's.

Initially, after the Roman appeared, other authors who refer to the story, for example, Azalais d ' Altier in her poem Tanz salutz e tantas amors and Guido delle Colonne in his Historia destructionis Troiae, continue to use names derived from that of Briseis.

Initially, he appeared onstage in a choir robe and was accompanied solely by pre-recorded beats emanating from his MiniDisc player.

Initially, the US saw neither political nor economic threat from President Árbenz Guzmán, because he appeared to have “ no real sympathy for the lower classes ”.

Initially, it appeared they were there to help X-Pac, but Triple H quickly turned on him, delivering a pedigree to his former stablemate, costing him the match.

Initially, it looked more like a type II supernova ( a supernovae formed by the explosion of a giant star ) with strong hydrogen spectral line emission, but later the hydrogen lines faded and strong helium spectral lines appeared, making the supernova look more like a type Ib.