A controversy arose about the plinth, Initially, it was found to fit perfectly as part of the statue, but after its inscription was translated and dated, in order to save face, the embarrassed experts who had publicized the statue as a possible original work by the artist Praxiteles dismissed the plinth as a later addition to the statue.

Initially dismissed in the music press as a " teeny bob sensation " were Norwegian band a-ha, whose use of guitars and real drums produced an accessible form of synthpop, which, along with a MTV friendly video, took single " Take on Me " ( 1985 ) to number two in the UK and number one in the US.

Initially, Stempel was dismissed as a sore loser and it wasn't until August 1958 that his credibility was bolstered.

Initially dismissed by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V as an inconsequential argument between monks, the idea of a religious reformation accentuated controversies and problems in many of the territories of the Holy Roman Empire, which became engulfed in the ensuing controversy.

Initially, Toeplitz was able to retain his position due to an exception for those who had been appointed before 1914, but he was nonetheless dismissed in 1935.

Initially, Sloane dismissed Rambaldi and his works.

Initially awarded to Sergio Musmeci ( with the collaboration of Pier Luigi Nervi ), the winning plan was briefly dismissed as considered too futuristic for the time.

Initially, the regency of the young emperor was placed in the hand of the chancellor ( Vietnamese: thái sư ) Lý Đạo Thành and the Empress Mother Thượng Dương but she was soon dismissed by Lý Nhân Tông after the influence from the emperor's natural mother Ỷ Lan.

Initially dismissed by Machel as a group of " armed bandits ", RENAMO's war of destabilization developed into a full-scale national threat by 1981.

According to Prof. Hannibal Travis: " Initially, U. S. courts dismissed claims by Holocaust survivors on the grounds that international law only gave rise to claims between states and was not self-executing in the absence of implementing legislation in Congress.

Initially, in the years immediately after World War II, contributors to the magazine dismissed and rejected proposals for European institutions such as the European Coal and Steel Community, the European Defence Community, the European Economic Community, and European Atomic Energy Community.

Initially, Berry notes, Adevărul reported claims of extremist Hungarians in Transylvania committing vandalism against national monuments while acknowledging that the UDMR was not endorsing such acts, but slowly became a tribune for encouraging ethnic Romanians to take action, exclusively presenting its public with politicized and unmitigated information provided by the official agency Rompres and by the Romanian ultra-nationalist group Vatra Românească.

Initially Barringer's ideas were not widely accepted, and even when the origin of Meteor Crater was finally acknowledged, the wider implications for impact cratering as a significant geological process on Earth were not.

Initially a joke designed to fill up blank space in the magazine, the weekly strip, detailing the mishaps and madcap ideas and inventions of a terminally idle office boy working at the Spirou offices, took off and became one of Franquin's best-known creations.

Initially, neither Lenin nor his ideas had widespread support, even among Bolsheviks.

Initially, Schumacher's ideas were rejected by both the Indian government and leading development economists.

Initially, his ideas had involved running a school in the midst of ' life-conditions ' in Kingston with two dozen students, but contact with a young representative of the New Age Movement in the USA persuaded him to think in terms of larger numbers and a relatively isolated locale in the countryside.

Turbonegro playing at the Southside Festival in 2005. Initially the band had two running ideas for band names: Nazipenis and Turbonegro.

Initially a student of Martha Graham and a soloist in her company, he is considered the first choreographer to “ develop an independent attitude towards modern dance ” and defy the ideas that were established by it.

Initially only available as a two-door saloon when launched in April 1971, a three-door hatchback, using an identical body profile but with a full-depth rear door and folding rear seat, was launched the following year This was Fiat's first super-mini-sized hatchback, along with a state-of-the-art transverse-engine / front-wheel-drive layout, with the transmission mounted on the end of the engine, both design ideas had been fully trialled since 1964, by Fiat's Autobianchi subsidiary with the Autobianchi Primula and 1969 Autobianchi A112.

Initially Marxist-Zionist, the movement was influenced by the ideas of Ber Borochov and Gustav Wyneken as well as Baden-Powell and the German Wandervogel movement.

Initially the ideas of Scouting were implemented by Andrzej Małkowski and his wife Olga.

Initially, Akhenaten presented Aten to the Egyptian people as a variant of the familiar supreme deity Amun-Ra ( itself the result of an earlier rise to prominence of the cult of Amun, resulting in Amun becoming merged with the sun god Ra ), in an attempt to put his ideas in a familiar religious context.

Initially a socialist, he became an anarchist after 1880 and a popularizer of Peter Kropotkin's ideas.

Initially influenced by Jackson Pollock and Robert Rauschenberg-Rauschenberg's exhibition of grass seeds, Growing Painting, 1954, left ' a significant impression on him ' - he began to formulate ideas about ' chance method schemes ' that would eventually be printed as a booklet by the Something Else Press as Chance Imagery ( 1957 / 66 ).

Initially his ideas were not taken seriously by Indian mathematicians, and his results were published largely in low-level mathematics journals or privately published, but international fame arrived when Martin Gardner wrote about Kaprekar in his March 1975 column of Mathematical Games for Scientific American.

Initially, Holmes was not very enthusiastic, since she " couldn't imagine coming up with enough ideas ".

Initially, he shared the conservative views of the majority of his class, but by degrees his ideas changed and became increasingly radical.

Initially Grosvenor was, like his father, a Tory, but later he came to support the ideas of William Pitt the elder.

Initially the owner of the LEGO Company, Mr. Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, was hesitant, but presented with the early findings he became convinced that Roos and Victor ’ s ideas had value and decided to encourage and sponsor a commercial application under the auspices of the LEGO Company.

Initially his mother was reluctant to let him commit to an insecure football career, so he began an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer ; however he went on to turn professional in October 1954.

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 policy failed to induce any growth, but it eventually began to affect inflationary expectations.

Initially inhabited by Micronesian and Polynesian peoples, Nauru was annexed by Germany in the late 19th century, and extraction of the island's phosphate began in 1906.

Initially equipped with ex-RAF Hawker Hunters, the air force soon began expansion with six Dassault / Dornier Alpha Jets in 1979.

1 and pp. 179ff .</ ref > Initially, telephone exchanges were granted to private developers as concessions in the major cities, but in 1884 the government began to construct the first of its own exchanges and subsequently suspended the award of new concessions.

Initially Kekkonen had intended to retire at the end of this term, and the Centre Party already began to prepare his succession by Ahti Karjalainen.

Initially Schindler may have been motivated by money, as Jewish labour cost less, but later he began shielding his workers without regard for cost.

Initially verbal struggles among activist groups became even more violent, especially when activists began to seize weapons from the Army in 1967.

Initially frustrated by the size and quality of her parts, Crawford began a campaign of self-publicity and became nationally known as a flapper by the end of the 1920s.

Initially, the movie began as a comedy set in an artists cafe, with Purviance as a brightly dressed patron.

Initially, the network ran a mix of college and less watched professional sports similar to ESPN, when they began.

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, on the Friday ( 1 October ), the fourball competition began, but was suspended after around 2 hours due to torrential rain that caused the course to be waterlogged.

Initially the messages logged by the VIs were sent to Wormwood Scrubs, but as the volume became so great, and Wormwood began to suffer German air attacks, the decision was made to seek larger premises.

Initially, Tichenor was a businessman in Franklin ( Williamson County ), Tennessee when the American Civil War began.

Initially, UPA contracted with the United States government to produce its animation output, but the government contracts began to evaporate as the FBI began investigating Communist activities in Hollywood in the late 1940s.

Initially educated to be a minister, Rogers was displeased with the way television addressed children and made an effort to change this when he began to write for and perform on local Pittsburgh-area shows dedicated to youth.

Initially, Hay rejected the term " movement " when discussing the Radical Faeries, considering it to instead be a " way of life " for gay males, and he began referring to it as a " not-movement ".

Initially a " society of entitlement " in the University, Templeton College began admitting graduate students in 1984 and became a full graduate college of the University by Royal Charter in 1995.

Initially the band began work on an instrumental project called Aurora Borealis ( mostly written by Burchill and MacNeil ).

Initially the service was provided entirely by London to Brighton stopping services, but more trains began to call with the introduction of the summer timetable in June 1958.

Initially, he was interested in writing a biography, and began research on a biography of Manuel I of Portugal, which he believed was badly treated by other historians.

Initially, a textile trade began developing in the area and it was first mentioned in 1232 in a document, in which one merchant is described as a business partner to William de Bermingham and being in the ownership of four weavers, a smith, a tailor and a purveyor.