Initially supported by Democrats, the law, critics say, has failed to address adequately the achievement gap between whites and minorities and there are problems with implementation and inflexible provisions.

Initially a sounding board for the fans ( and critics ) of the festival, the boards have become an integral part of the festival organization with regular contributions from Festival Director John Probyn and Promoter Andy Copping.

Initially branded a hardcore band, their most recent albums Venom and Tears and Deathless have taken a sharp direction towards metal, with critics likening the band's sound to that of Pantera, Sepultura, and Crowbar.

Initially, it was a box office failure and was panned by some critics but has since acquired a cult following.

Initially critics expressed concern that Strawberry 100 % would be a traditional harem comedy.

Initially dividing critics upon its release, the record runs the gamut from blues-styled guitar workouts (" Birthday Carol ", " Broke Down and Busted ") to power pop (" Devil's Bite ", " Don't Tie My Hands ") to Laura Nyro-styled piano pop (" We Gotta Get You a Woman ", " Baby Let's Swing ", " The Last Thing You Said ") to rock ' n ' roll (" Who's That Man ") to piano ballads (" Believe in Me ", " Once Burned ", the middle section of " Birthday Carol "), as well as including more experimental numbers ( the sarcastic, prog-rock tinged " I'm in the Clique ", " There Are No Words ").

Initially, some music critics wrote the Berlin concert off as a failure when the original line-up was announced, with several complaining there were too many bands singing in German to appeal to the world.

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 released with great fanfare and to much anticipation, All Star Batman has consistently received bad reviews from critics.

Initially, most of the company's films were mostly critically panned, however recently their films have garner critical acclaim, including RocknRolla, Orphan, Splice and Unknown.

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, 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, Folken and Dilandau were a single enemy commander, but as the story fleshed out, the creators felt the series would be more interesting if there were two with very different personalities.

Initially, the series was planned at thirty-nine episodes, with Yasuhiro Imagawa brought on board to direct.

Initially they found it difficult to score the series as the plot itself was still being reworked around the new concept, but the plot changes were finished in time for them to prepare the score and give the film the desired final " epic touch.

Initially the Network Walkman was a series of digital music players that used flash memory to hold their data.

Initially achieving a series of victories, by 1943 the Japanese forces were driven back towards the home islands.

Initially just a computer, it has gradually developed more of a personality over the course of the series.

Initially, the mystery of Dawn's sudden existence is not acknowledged in the series, with the other characters accepting her as a part of the status quo.

Initially referred to as " Little Big Mac ", it was codenamed " Milwaukee " after Dhuey's hometown, and later went through a series of new names, including " Reno ", " Uzi " and " Paris " ( after Jean-Louis Gassee, Apple's then products manager, who protected the semi-clandestine project from cancellation ).

Initially, Messina also wanted to shoot the plays in chronological order of how they were written, but this was rejected because it was felt that doing so would necessitate the series beginning with a run of relatively little known plays.

Initially intended as a relaunch of the Bond book series following the death in 1964 of the character's creator, Ian Fleming, Colonel Sun instead ends up being the final book of the series ( discounting a " biography " of Bond and a pair of film script adaptations ) until John Gardner revives the literary James Bond in 1981.

Initially perceived as another role-playing game ( RPG ), it began to attract the interest of language teachers with the launch of the first of the series of SLanguages conferences in 2007.

Initially portrayed as a small-time thief, supplying Del with dubious goods, Trigger's place in the series changed over time.

Initially in New Zealand a 6th series of the Garbage Pail Kids was released as a market test ( this version was a mix of the United States series 6 and 7 ).

Initially a resident in the Shady Pines Retirement Home after having a stroke prior to the start of the series, she moved in with Blanche, Rose and Dorothy following a fire at the institution.

Initially without transport he relied on friends for lifts but by series 2 he has bought a red BMW 520.

Initially the car everyone wanted in a Continuation was a 427 S / C model which was represented in the CSX4000 series.

Initially, only Gai Daigoji and Akito Tenkawa are depicted as enjoying the series.

Initially Lasker wanted to play for US $ 5, 000 a side and a match was agreed at stakes of $ 3, 000 a side, but Steinitz agreed to a series of reductions when Lasker found it difficult to raise the money.

Initially conceived as a sixteen episode stand-alone series, the storylines primarily concentrated on the lives of the prisoners and, to a lesser extent, the officers and other prison staff.

Initially introduced solely for the storyline concerning Sharon ( and serving as an opponent for Bea during her stay ), Judy was received well enough by viewers for her to remain in the series as a regular, and stayed as part of the core group of prisoners ( and becoming Bea's unofficial " second in command " in the process ), and eventually became the show's longest serving inmate ( with a few spells on the outside ), and the second longest running character behind Elspeth Ballantyne's portrayal of Meg Jackson, later Morris.

Initially a one-off series, the title was revived in 2005.

Initially, Daimler-Chrysler predicted annual sales of 2, 000 global units with 50 % coming from the United States ; however, such lofty sales expectations never materialized.

Initially, forecasters believed Alex would remain weak, and on the first advisory the storm was predicted to make landfall as a minimal tropical storm.

Initially, forecasters at the Miami Weather Bureau predicted the storm to turn northward again.

Initially, the hurricane was predicted to move near or through the Cayman Islands, Jamaica, and Cuba.

Initially, Anita was predicted to continue tracking west-northwestward and make landfall near the Texas / Louisiana border.

Initially, the storm was predicted to continue northwestward and make landfall on Guam, though it turned to the west early on October 9, passing about south of the island.

Initially no sensor manufacturer was prepared to produce the sensor for Nikon, believing that the predicted sales volumes were completely unrealistic.

Initially, the wastewater would be entirely from the shopping center with the domestic sewage from the houses increasing over an 18-month period.

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 designed to run on AT & T Hobbit-based hardware, BeOS was later modified to run on PowerPC-based processors: first Be's own systems, later Apple Inc .' s PowerPC Reference Platform and Common Hardware Reference Platform, with the hope that Apple would purchase or license BeOS as a replacement for its then aging Mac OS.

Initially limited frequency space meant that Channel 4 could not be broadcast alongside S4C, though some English Channel 4 programmes would be aired at less popular times on the Welsh variant, a practice that carried on up until the closure of S4C's analogue transmissions in 2010.

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 only calling points would be Rotterdam on the way to Amsterdam, and Cologne on the way to Frankfurt.

Initially a kingdom, the Roman Republic was founded in 509 BC, and would grow steadily over the next several centuries until it had supplanted Greek culture as the dominant Mediterranean civilization.

Initially used mainly for war services, this new class of people would form the basis for the later knights, another basis of imperial power.

Initially, interpreted languages were compiled line-by-line ; that is, each line was compiled as it was about to be executed, and if a loop or subroutine caused certain lines to be executed multiple times, they would be recompiled every time.

Initially, the perpetrators ' plan was to go to Riem, which was the international airport near Munich at the time, but the negotiators convinced them that Fürstenfeldbruck would be more practical.

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

Initially, the companies agreed that IBM would take over maintenance of OS / 2 1. 0 and development of OS / 2 2. 0, while Microsoft would continue development of OS / 2 3. 0.

Initially, western ballistic missiles could not even reach such targets, which would be located deep within interior of the Sino-Soviet land mass in Asia.

Initially he resisted, because he was determined to write the full score for his next project ( Saturday Night had been aborted ), but Oscar Hammerstein convinced him that he would benefit from the experience, and he accepted.

Initially, Sony believed that it would take a decade for CD-R prices to become affordable ( starting at about $ 12 per blank CD-R disk in 1994 ).

Initially believing the film would be shot in Spain, Valentino was upset to learn that the studio planned on shooting on a Hollywood back lot.

Initially it would have been a motte and bailey castle, later rebuilt in stone, and refortified and developed over time.

Initially, they focused on cognitive goals, while addressing affective goals indirectly, in the belief that doing so would increase children's self-esteem and feelings of competency.

Initially, those closest to the lords and knights adopted arms, such as persons employed as squires that would be in common contact with the armorial devices.

Initially, Warner Bros. was reluctant to fund the film, but with Prince's assurances it would be a sequel to Purple Rain as well as the involvement of the original members of The Time, the studio greenlit the project.

Initially the Italian government had offered to let the pope keep the Leonine City, but the Pope rejected the offer because acceptance would have been an implied endorsement of the legitimacy of the Italian kingdom's rule over his former domain.

Initially Luns stood alone and he was afraid that French-German cooperation would result in anti-Atlantic and anti-American policies which harmed the interests of the West.

Initially they hoped the American slang name would obscure any reference to the study of nuclear structure ; eventually, the word became a standard unit in particle physics.