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

Initially settled by sedentarized Gitanos and Mercheros, they became known after the 1980s as selling points for heroin and other drugs.

Initially discovered by Ferdinand Magellan's expedition in 1520, the islands were not settled by people of European descent until the second half of the 19th century at the height of the sheep farming and gold rush booms.

Initially, bus implementations were proprietary ( such as the Apple II and Macintosh ), but by the late 1970s manufacturers of Intel 8080 / Zilog Z80-based computers running CP / M had settled around the S-100 standard.

Initially Daubigny painted in a traditional style, but this changed after 1843 when he settled in Barbizon to work outside in nature.

Initially called Bookworm, the script was turned down by Harrison Ford and Dustin Hoffman before Alec Baldwin settled on the role of Green.

Initially, director Jane Howell wanted to set the play in present day Northern Ireland, but she ultimately settled on a more conventional approach.

Initially the Brownlow family settled near the lough at Annaloist, but by 1619, on a nearby ridge, they had established a castle and bawn for their own accommodation, and " a fair Town, consisting of 42 Houses, all of which are inhabited with English Families, and the streets all paved clean through also to water Mills, and a Wind Mill, all for corn.

) Initially, delivery of the paper beyond settled areas was problematic, but the growth and development of the rural railway system in the early 1900s facilitated wider circulation.

Initially, Phil played in a number of positions including fullback and centre, but settled in the fly-half position in 1972.

Initially, the Gauls settled an oppidum at the site of what is now the Puy St Clair because it was a site surrounded by cliffs and so easy to get off.

Initially, Mani ' and his clan, known as the Mrudah, settled in Ghusaybah and Al-Mulaybeed.

Initially the Memon traders resided in Sri Lanka temporarily for business purposes, however after independence of India and Pakistan in 1947, many settled in Sri Lanka along with their families.

Initially purchased in 1888 and settled in 1892, the North Campus is also known as the Main Street campus, as it is physically larger and is the site of the majority of the College's buildings, academic departments, administration, and student residences.

Initially, the Germans who settled the northern regions predominantly came from Lower Saxony, while the Germans who settled the southern areas ( mittelpommerscher Keil ) predominantly came from Altmark and Westphalia.

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, British and Russian observers considered the implantation of railroads as the ultimate solution to the immense transportation problems Iran faced due to sparsely settled population, the lack of rivers, high mountains, and inhospitable desert regions of the country.

Initially moving away from the Clash and Wire influenced punk of Mittagspause to experiment with ska, Fehlfarben settled into a sound perhaps most comparable to their English contemporaries Gang of Four.

Initially he settled well at the London club, garnering good notices as a tough-tackling midfielder with an eye for a spectacular goal.

Initially, Huaxia seems to have been a somewhat elastic cultural marker, referring neither to race nor ethnicity nor any particular country but rather to a " civilized ", settled, literate, agricultural population adhering to common ritual standards, in contrast to " barbarians.

Initially, Parker and his wife were intimidated by the occasional bomb attacks in the city, but they soon settled in and Parker was able to focus on his basketball career.

Initially published as a monthly, the magazine soon settled into a more realistic publishing schedule, coming out every other month, six times per year.

Initially, the family settled at Wainui Beach near Gisborne, but in 1945 moved to a farmlet in Mangapapa Road, Gisborne.

Initially called Collège Royal, and later Collège des Trois Langues ( Latin: Collegium Trilingue ), Collège National, Collège Impérial, it was named Collège de France in 1870.

Initially she concentrated on religious subjects like The Magnificat ( 1872 ), but upon going to Paris in 1870 she was exposed to battle scenes from Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier and Édouard Detaille, and switched her focus to war paintings.

Initially kept under wraps as a secret weapon, it became widely used in battle by French artillery during the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 71 ).

Initially the conflict was waged through educational and religious propaganda, with a fierce rivalry developing between supporters of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, who generally identified as Greek, and supporters of the Bulgarian Exarchate, which had been established by the Ottomans in 1870.

Initially these were militias in support of British regulars, but when military support for the colonies ended in 1870, the colonies assumed their own defence responsibilities.

These engines were numbered in various series over time: Initially they took an ' A ' suffix to the original number, then from 1862 they were renumbered above 1100, from 1870 above 1800, and from 1886 in the 3xxx series.

Initially it had very little embellishment and no descriptive title until 1870, when the London and North Western Railway incised " Euston " on the architrave in letters of gold.

Initially changes in fashion led to a fragmentation of what had previously been very similar styles of dressing across the upper classes of Europe, and the development of distinctive national styles.

Initially the components required for kernel and development were written: editors, shell, compiler and all the others.

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, 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, the company offered motor vehicle development work and consulting, but did not build any cars under its own name.

Initially the development was fairly piecemeal, but in 1828 this area just to the west of Potsdamer Platz, sandwiched between the Tiergarten and the north bank of the future Landwehrkanal, received Royal approval for a more orderly and purposeful metamorphosis into a residential colony of the affluent, and gradually filled with houses and villas of a particularly palatial nature.

Initially a laboratory instrument relying on the Earth's own magnetic field to provide restoring force for the pointer, galvanometers were developed into compact, rugged, sensitive portable instruments that were essential to the development of electrotechnology.

Initially the major interest has been in the evidence of homology in the cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate body plan and organ development.

Initially, it was thought that the EPROM would be too expensive for mass production use and that it would be confined to development only.

Initially home appliances were standalone or portable devices in a kitchen, along with other sinks and the water heater, but with the development of the wall-to-wall countertop and standardized height cabinets, dishwashers evolved into standardized size and shape appliances first integrated with the sink, and then underneath the kitchen countertop as a modular unit.

Initially no Creative X-Fi based sound cards supported DDL ( 2005 ~ 2007 ) but a collaboration of Creative and Auzentech resulted in the development of the Auzentech Prelude, the first X-Fi card to support DDL.

Initially, the initiative has been involved in the development of a technological framework and interoperability standards specifically for enhancing access to e-print archives, in order to increase the availability of scholarly communication ; OAI is, therefore, closely related to the Open access publishing movement.

Initially, Woolley naively sees his job as the disinterested implementation of the Minister's policies, but gradually finds that this conflicts with his institutional duty to the department and sometimes ( since Sir Humphrey is responsible for formally assessing Woolley's performance ) his own potential career development.

Initially, visitors focused their attention on the Manasquan River, cedar groves and farmhouses, but their interest in the ocean led to development on the waterfront, beginning with the first beachfront pavilion on Atlantic Avenue in 1880.

Initially these systems were unwieldy and development of IR systems continued.

Initially it replaced a development environment consisting of tools added onto Visual C ++ 6. 0. eMbedded Visual C ++ was replaced as a separate development environment by Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

Initially he thought that the extra limb was inducing proliferation of motor neurons, but he and his colleagues later showed that there was a great deal of motor neuron death during normal development, and the extra limb prevented this cell death.

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

Initially, both the US and USSR were interested in the development of the dam, but this occurred in the increasingly tense readings of Cold War happenings, as well as growing intra-Arab rivalries.

Initially tasked " to connect military planning with research and development decisions ," RAND widely expanded in its scope beyond its original mission.

Initially the competing electronic calculators were no cheaper nor smaller than the ANITA, but Bell Punch responded by opening a new research and development building on its Uxbridge site, and electronics research was increased for the calculators and the other Bell Punch products.

Initially this development was as a consequence of the extension of the railway to the town in the 1880s, subsequently the promotion of Metroland during the 1920s and the electrification of the Metropolitan Line in the 1960s.