Initially, the President was merely a symbolic figure with the Reichstag dominant ; however, persistent political instability, in which governments often lasted only a few months, led to a change in the power structure of the republic, with the president's emergency powers called increasingly into use to prop up governments challenged by critical or even hostile Reichstag votes.

Initially U. S. President Eisenhower was not surprised by " Sputnik.

Initially, it was unclear whether the Vice President actually became the new President or merely an acting President.

Initially denying the existence of a so-called " Category I " admissions program, university President B. Joseph " Joe " White and Chancellor Richard Herman later admitted that there were instances of preferential treatment.

Initially, the basic policies outlined by President Kennedy in a message to Congress on March 28, 1961, guided McNamara in the reorientation of the defense program.

Initially, President Eisenhower was worried that a satellite passing above a nation at over, might be construed as violating that nation's sovereign airspace.

Initially, the program lost audience from Swayze's program, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower let it be known that he was displeased by the switch.

Initially, as the Irish senate had not been constituted and elected, the seat on the Presidential Commission intended for the Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann was filled by the President of the High Court under the Transitory Provisions of the Constitution.

Initially, the hijackers were granted safe passage to Tunisia, but U. S. President Ronald Reagan ordered a U. S. fighter plane to force the get-away plane to land at Naval Air Station Sigonella in Italy.

Initially the President of the Board of Trade, she was later the Leader of the House of Commons and Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Initially known as " Mysterious Yokum " ( there was even an Ideal doll marketed under this name ) due to a debate regarding his gender ( he was stuck in a pants-shaped stovepipe for the first six weeks ), he was renamed " Honest Abe " ( after President Abraham Lincoln ) to thwart his early tendency to steal.

Initially, the office was styled President of the Council of Ministers (), when the term " Government " included more than the Cabinet, and the Cabinet was called The Council of Ministers ( Consiliul de Miniştri ).

Initially, President Chen Shui-bian appointed to the premiership Tang Fei, who was a member of the Kuomintang, but this arrangement proved unworkable and subsequent appointments were from the Democratic Progressive Party.

Initially, the White House claimed to have fired Ruckelshaus, but as The Washington Post article written the next day pointed out, " The letter from the President to Bork also said Ruckelshaus resigned.

Initially, as commander of the army, Walker ruled Nicaragua through provisional President Patricio Rivas.

Initially tolerated by the newly installed President Karimov, Adolat became increasingly assertive, culminating in a demand that Karimov impose Sharia throughout Uzbekistan.

Initially Mexico closes its US border, but President Blake negotiates to open the border.

Initially rejected by Warner Brothers, Senat showed the project to the President of Time Warner International Broadcasting, Tom McGrath, himself a former classical musician and conductor.

Initially Brigham Young, President of the Church, intended to apply for status as a territory, and sent John Milton Bernhisel eastward to Washington, D. C. with the petition for territorial status.

Initially it was styled as President.

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 the editor of the Batman titles, Giordano was named the company's new managing editor in 1981, and promoted to Vice President / Executive Editor in 1983 ( a position he held until 1993 ).

Initially opposed to secession, he travelled to Washington, D. C. to meet with President Lincoln.

Initially, support for the United States was high, but by the end of the Bush administration, after seven years of war, anti-Americanism was high and criticism of the Bush Doctrine was widespread ; nonetheless the doctrine still had support among some United States political leaders.

Initially, Bush inherited an economy that continued the strong rally that had begun in the final months of 1982.

Initially viewed as an unlikely prospect to win his party's nomination, Clinton did so and went on to defeat incumbent President George H. W. Bush, who had been viewed as politically invincible just a year earlier.

Initially announced by President Bush in 2002, the Clear Skies Initiative was aimed at amending the Clean Air Act to further reduce air pollution and expanded the emissions trading programs to include new pollutants such as mercury.

Initially, as the subject of one of his manuscripts, the primary focus was on the drug wars, but because of Pete Brewton's January 1990 newspaper series about the Houston S & L scandal, in which Brewton alleged that the Bush family, CIA members, and Mafia members took part in a de facto conspiracy to steal vast sums of money, Lombardi shifted his emphasis to investigating the laundering of the stolen money.

Initially trying to emulate his heroes, Billy Bragg, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Neil Young, Kate Bush, U2, he began to write his own songs and develop his own style.

Initially working at Bush House, he then transferred to Broadcasting House.

Initially the Bush Presidency asserted that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to any captives apprehended in the " war on terror ", and that these individuals could be held indefinitely without any open review of their status.

Initially the Bush administration asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives from the war on terror.

Initially, the language program emphasized spoken Spanish and lipreading, and the use of signs by teachers was limited to fingerspelling ( using simple signs to sign the alphabet ).

Initially, it emphasized contemporary American writers with whom Laughlin had personal connections, such as William Carlos Williams and Pound.

Initially, Wood and publisher Larry Young emphasized the single-issue aspect of Demo, suggesting that the series would probably not be collected into a trade paperback.

Initially, in order to specialize the new company, a corporate direction was selected that emphasized the creation of development platforms for multi-user, multimedia applications.

Initially, the Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin rejected Kim's requests for permission to invade the South, but in late 1949 the Communist victory in China and the development of Soviet nuclear weapons made him re-consider Kim's proposal.

Initially none of the record companies agreed to the PTA's proposal.

Initially, the proposal was for two television channels, one in English and Afrikaans, aimed at white audiences, and another, known as TV Bantu, aimed at black viewers., but when television was finally introduced, there was only one channel.

Initially, Bellamy's proposal to record the Ballads was vetoed by Kipling's daughter, and he had to wait until her death in 1976 before permission was finally granted by the Kipling Society.

Initially titled Happy New Year, Panahi developed the original story with Parviz Shahbazi and attempted to get funding from IRIB's Channel 1 with the expectation that it would be a short film, but his proposal was rejected.

Initially starting as a Nick Fury proposal for Marvel Comics, Morrison adapted it as a 13 part series for Vertigo.

Initially they sided together, successfully fighting a proposal that Western Australia accept female convicts.

Initially, it appeared that the amendment would pass, but it was defeated on the Senate floor on May 15, 1934 by a vote of 42-23, mostly because the clause added to the communications bill that called for the FCC to study the viability of the Wagner-Hatfield proposal and report to Congress the following year.