Initially equipped with Ferret, Saladin and later CVR ( W ) Fox armoured cars and CVR ( T ) armoured personnel carriers.

Initially on the advice of his mother, he attempted to buy the German tribes off, so as to gain time.

Initially, the Mononobe clan, a rival clan of the Sogas, allied with Prince Anahobe, another son of Kimmei, and attempted to have him installed as emperor.

Initially France attempted to work with other countries towards the adoption of a common set of units of measure.

Initially incarcerated in Utah in 1975 for aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault, Bundy became a suspect in a progressively longer list of unsolved homicides in multiple states.

Initially Grand Met attempted to bring the chain top profitability under newly minted CEO Barry Gibbons, the changes he initiated during his two-year tenure were hit or miss.

Initially, they attempted to send young Frédéric to a German boarding school, but he ran away.

Initially the surveyors attempted to fill the holes with rubble to prevent the foundations of the new road subsiding.

Initially, therefore, the CPGB attempted to work within the Labour Party, which at this time operated mainly as a federation of left-wing bodies, only having allowed individual membership since 1918.

Initially Bloch had been skeptical and had rejected him describing Antheil's compositions as " empty " and " pretentious "; however, the teacher was won over by Antheil's enthusiasm and energy, and helped him financially as he attempted to complete an aborted first symphony.

Initially, Arafat attempted to undermine the post of prime minister, but was eventually forced to give Abbas some degree of power.

Initially he pledged not to use force against the militants in the interest of avoiding a civil war, and attempted negotiation.

Initially an agrarian organization associated with the policies of the Grange, from 1878 the organization took the name Greenback Labor Party and attempted to forge a farmer-labor alliance, adding industrial reforms to its agenda, such as support of the 8-hour day and opposition to the use of state or private force to suppress union strikes.

Initially Software Projects attempted to pass this bug off as an intentional feature to make the game more difficult, claiming that the rooms in question were filled with poison gas.

Initially Guzmán attempted to win over the support of citizens by punishing corrupt government officials and other unpopular leaders.

Initially a supporter of Andrew Jackson, Harding attempted to simultaneously support Jackson while also defending the directors of the Bank of the United States, which Jackson fiercely opposed.

Initially, some blacks attempted to enlist in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, but most were rejected.

Initially, he was held in Maidstone barracks by the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, from which von Werra attempted his first escape.

Initially, Catherine attempted to rationalize government procedures through law.

Initially, Took attempted to rerecord as a single the song " Amanda " from the 1971 acoustic Shagrat session ( along with two other tracks, Blind Owl Blues and Mr Discrete ) with the assistance of the Pink Fairies rhythm section of Sanderson and Russell Hunter, whose band was temporarily defunct following the departure of Paul Rudolph.

Initially, amongst the astronomers of the time, “ scarcely anyone attempted a serious refutation in the light of the new principles ” and in fact astronomers “ were reluctant to give up the emotional satisfaction provided by a coherent and interrelated universe ”.

Initially, they attempted to organize a mass movement to South Carolina and later Idaho.

Initially, the airline attempted to renegotiate its aircraft purchase agreement with American, requesting a release from contractual obligations regarding the two remaining deliveries.

Initially, Saddam Hussein attempted to deter Coalition military action by threatening Kuwait's and Iraq's petroleum production and export.

Initially attempted to tie Miss Bae with Gong, but later changed his views to Hee-won.

Initially the Puja was organised by affluent families since they had the money to organize the festival.

Initially, indusium and scale morphology were used to organize the Cyatheaceae into taxonomic ranks.

Initially, the United States Army Air Corps 7th Ferrying Group, Ferrying Command ( later Air Transport Command ) at Great Falls Army Airfield was ordered to organize and develop an air route to send assistance to Russia though northwestern Canada, across Alaska and the Bering Sea to Siberia, and eventually over to the Eastern Front.

Initially a response to violence against women, a women's shelter may also serve as a place for women to organize for equality, which is an important distinction from standard government-funded service-based approaches to domestic violence.

Initially, 37 men were arrested, but the number quickly grew into hundreds.

Initially, the consuls possessed all of the king ’ s powers in the form of two men, elected for a one-year term, who could veto each others actions.

Initially, Leech refuses to accompany him, and the other men follow his lead.

Initially, in May 1965, New Zealand provided one 4 gun artillery battery ( 140 men ) with two rifle companies of infantry, designated Victor and Whiskey companies, and an SAS troop arriving later.

Initially they were composed of men who had escaped into the mountains to avoid conscription into Vichy France's Service du travail obligatoire ( STO ) to provide forced labour for Germany.

Initially perceived as food men shared while gaming and drinking at night, the sandwich slowly began appearing in polite society as a late-night meal among the aristocracy.

Initially, Custer had 208 officers and men under his command, with an additional 142 under Reno, just over a hundred under Benteen, 50 soldiers with Captain McDougall's rearguard, and 84 soldiers under 1st Lieutenant Edward Gustave Mathey with the pack train.

Initially in support of the Confederacy, soon the community became divided, with the men of Amity leaving to fight in both the Confederate Army and the Union Army.

Initially the canal appears to have been mainly used by small sailing barges with easily lowered masts, bow-hauled by gangs of men.

Initially, the LTTE gained prominence due to devastating attacks such as the Kent and Dollar Farm massacres of 1984, where hundreds of men, women and children were attacked during the night as they slept and were hacked to death with fatal blows to the head from axes ; and the Anuradhapura massacre of 1985, where they indiscriminately opened fire, killing and wounding 146 civilians within Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi Buddhist shrine.

Initially, Frieza leaves the dirty work to his men while sitting in his private hover-chair.

Initially numbering only about 4, 000 men, the rebel forces quickly grew to about 25, 000.

Initially the men hoped to be able to wait for the British 2nd Army to resume their advance and thus relieve them, but when it became clear that the Allies would not cross the Rhine that year the men decided to escape back to Allied territory.

Initially, the taxi driver said he was under the dashboard of his cab when the shooting started and could not see who shot first, although he contradicted his statement a few days later in an interview with the San Juan Star, a local newspaper, stating that he ducked under the dashboard of the car after the three men ( the two activists and the undercover agent ) left the car, and that he saw " 10 heavily armed men " approaching.

Initially the average regiment was made up of 500 to 600 men.

Initially, the Spanish government was prepared to send about 4, 000 men, but soon realized that there were more than enough volunteers to fill an entire division: 18, 104 men in all, with 2, 612 officers and 15, 492 soldiers.

Initially successful, the Austrians were soon driven back beyond Belfiore after Brabeck's troops accidentally fired on Gavasini's men, causing a panic.

Initially membership was restricted to men who had served with special distinction in the war.

Initially Tohan rejected it as they thought neither men nor women would be interested in such a magazine, but finally accepted it as Ito's other books for gay people had outsold their expectations.

Initially the Royal Navy sought to halt the progress of the Catalpa and recapture the men, but after being fired upon once, Anthony raised the American flag.

Initially, Campbell was declared the winner by 30 votes but Hunt refused to vacate the governor's office and both men took the oath of office on December 30, 1916.