Initially, Holden ran the drawing office and worked as the senior design architect under the three principal architects in France and Belgium ( Edwin Lutyens, Reginald Blomfield and Herbert Baker ).

Initially intended to be built in white marble, then in yellow sandstone, the architect and committee finally settled on red Seneca sandstone from the vicinity of Seneca Creek in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Initially, Israeli architects strongly objected to non-Israeli architects ' having been chosen through nepotism and to Kiesler's having never completed his architectural studies in Vienna and Berlin ( though licensed as an architect in New York ) and having never built anything.

Initially he trained as an architect at Berwick before taking to the stage under the name Henry Travers.

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 a supporter of Joseph Stalin after Vladimir Lenin's death, he came to oppose a large number of Stalin's policies and was one of Stalin's most prominent victims during the " Moscow Trials " and purges of the Old Bolsheviks in the late 1930s.

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, Wanger considered Gig Young, Dick Powell, Joseph Cotten and several others for the role of Miles.

Initially, Franz Joseph Gall ( 1758 – 1828 ) claimed his very popular theory of Phrenology and localization of function in the brain, but it was attacked by Pierre Flourens ( 1794 – 1867 ) who claimed that, by careful ablation of various brain regions, he had disproved Gall's hypotheses.

Initially, after the church's formation on April 6, 1830, Joseph Smith referred to himself as merely " an apostle of Jesus Christ, and elder of the church.

Initially, such rulers of Europe as Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, viewed the revolution in France as an event between the French king and his subjects, and not something in which they should interfere.

Initially, Eastman had supported Senator Joseph McCarthy, but he soon came to believe that the anti-Communist movement was " taken over by reactionary forces.

Initially, Napoleon ’ s brother Joseph Bonaparte ruled Naples.

Initially, the rulers of Europe, such Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, viewed the revolution in France as an event between the French king and his subjects, and not something in which they should interfere.

Initially conceived as an adjunct to the Jagd-Kommando units and placed under the command of Otto Skorzeny, the idea was later appropriated by Joseph Goebbels to represent the general rising up of the German people to defend against foreign invasion.

Initially popular among high-ranking statesmen and even the royal court, the sect was persecuted by hegumen Joseph Volotsky and Archbishop Gennady of Novgorod.

Initially discovered, trained and managed by Joseph Tolley at Tolley's famous Rochdale Boxing Club, reference the Rochdale thunder bolt.

Initially homsechooled, he was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Joseph Brunault on June 12, 1927 after attending the Seminary of Quebec from 1915 to 1923.

Initially, he had a favourable opinion of the reforms of the Emperor Joseph II, but he was critical of his centralist policies as well as of his neglection of the various regional languages in the Habsburg Empire.

Initially, SJA was an all-male elementary school ; and in 1926 a three-story building was constructed, known as the " Old Saint Joseph ," where the International Bank of Commerce now stands in downtown.

Initially a milita, under the instruction of Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Henry Banks they formed the core of the New Zealand Army following successful service in the Boer Wars.

Initially the engineer for the line was George Stephenson, but he was replaced by Joseph Locke, Stephenson's pupil and assistant.

Initially called Joseph Lucas & Son from 1882 it was based in Little King Street, later Great King Street Birmingham.

* Hehalutz: 1918 – Initially established in Russia under Joseph Trumpeldor to prepare potential olim for labour and pioneering work.

Initially reluctant, Joseph drives Lewis to Bodega Bay to talk to Juan Bautista who was the last cyborg to see Mendoza.

Initially, the London business comprised the accounts and goodwill transferred to it from an old family friend, Nathaniel Paice, a London merchant who was retiring, but also much business came from John and Charles Baring & Co. and other Exeter merchants who required a London agent.

Initially the frigate squadron was mistaken for French warships and chased away by Swiftsure, returning the following day once the error had been realised.

Initially, in May 1940, 16, 700 people went to French Morocco.

Initially producing illustrations for Belgian Scouting magazines, in 1927 he began working for the conservative newspaper Le XXe Siècle, where he adopted the pen name " Hergé ", based upon the French pronunciation of " RG ", his initials reversed.

Initially, the majority of the province was French, which demanded " rep-by-pop " ( representation by population ), which the Anglophones opposed.

Initially, a version of SECAM for the French 819-line television standard was devised and tested, but not introduced.

Initially, British subjects from Australia made up the majority, but the establishment of the Caledonian Company of the New Hebrides in 1882 soon tipped the balance in favour of French subjects.

Initially the groupe comprised a group of French fighter pilots sent to aid Soviet forces on the Eastern Front at the suggestion of Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French Forces, who felt it important that French servicemen serve on all fronts in the war.

Initially named CATI ( Conception Assistée Tridimensionnelle Interactive — French for Interactive Aided Three-dimensional Design ) — it was renamed CATIA in 1981, when Dassault created a subsidiary to develop and sell the software, and signed a non-exclusive distribution agreement with IBM.

Initially charmed by her personality and beauty, the French people generally came to dislike her, accusing " L ' Autrichienne " ( meaning the Austrian ( woman ) in French ) of being profligate, promiscuous, and of harboring sympathies for France's enemies, particularly Austria, her country of origin.

Initially, the eastern building served as the French Naval Ministry.

Initially imitating the lyrics of the French troubadours and trouvères, Minnesang soon established a distinctive tradition.

Initially, the Vietnamese guerrilla forces, the Viet Minh, were unsuccessful in dealing with the better-trained and-equipped French forces.

Initially, their two assaults across the Fontanone stream near Marengo village were repelled, and General Jean Lannes reinforced the French right.

The first purpose-designed fighter aircraft included the British Vickers F. B. 5-machine gun armament was also fitted to several French types, such as the Morane-Saulnier L and N. Initially the German Air Service lagged behind the Allies in this respect with no purpose built fighting aircraft.

Initially the victorious French army only lightly occupied the old core of the Canton of Schwyz, but plundered the Einseideln Abbey.

Initially, the war on land went badly for the French and their allies, with German forces invading France and an urgent need to gather all possible troops to send to France to resist them.

Initially Marshal Humières commanded French forces in this theatre but in 1689, while the French concentrated on the Rhine, it produced little more than a stand-off – the most significant engagement occurred when William's second-in-command, the Prince of Waldeck, defeated Humières in a skirmish at the Battle of Walcourt on 25 August.

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, the French general Ferdinand Foch refused to recognize the Independent Air Force which caused some logistical difficulties.

Initially, the chief operational objective of Operation Dragoon was the capture of the important French ports of Marseilles and Toulon, which were considered as essential to supply the growing Allied forces in France.

Initially it was just one of the many dances, but it soon became popular throughout society, as theatres and street barrel organs spread it from the suburbs to the working-class slums, which were packed with hundreds of thousands of European immigrants, primarily Italians, Spanish and French.