Initially, McElwee thought the film would be a " synthesis of Backyard and Space Coast ," but the day after filming the Scottish games, his sister " said — somewhat seriously, somewhat joking —' You should use the camera as a way to meet women.

Initially, it was only somewhat beneficial in certain situations in a few OpenGL-based 3D first-person shooter titles, most notably Quake III Arena.

Initially, hotel manager Barnard Thompson ( Hector Elizondo ) is also somewhat taken aback.

Initially, recurring characters included the absent-minded inventor Gyro Gearloose, the heroic but not too bright pilot Launchpad McQuack and the loyal but somewhat foolish Doofus Drake.

Initially Schaumburg-Lippe's position was somewhat precarious: it had to share a wide variety of institutions and facilities with the County of Schaumburg ( which belonged to Hesse-Kassel ), including the representative assembly and the highly productive Bückeberg mines, and the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel retained some feudal rights over it.

Initially expected by Malcolm Wilson to maintain a somewhat lower profile, Solberg actually became a nominated points-scorer for Ford on, of all events, the gruelling test that was the Safari Rally in early 1999, after usual understudy to the team's star driver Colin McRae, Thomas Rådström, suffered an injury and was subsequently ruled out from taking part.

Initially, the two had a somewhat combative association.

Initially somewhat large, subsequent issues kept the same basic design but were smaller each year, with the last appearing in 1878.

Initially this was based on somewhat tenuous trends in graphical plots ; this induced a measure of skepticism in J. W. S. Cassels ( Birch's Ph. D. advisor ).

Initially, the Midland concentrated on maintaining and improving the somewhat varied fleet that it had inherited, with the assistance of The Railway Foundry in Leeds.

Initially, she turned them down, but Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan convinced her that her role would be somewhat collaborative in nature, and she agreed to the tour.

Initially the model was planned to have a 3-litre V6 engine as standard, but for economical reasons GAZ instead opted for a new stratified charge ZMZ-4022 I4 with ( somewhat similar to Honda CVCC design ); GAZ started development of stratified charge, or, in original terms, " fore-chambered ", petrol engines as early as in the early 1950-s, but designs ready for serial production appeared only in late 1970s.

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, the Daily News was somewhat more liberal than the Tribune.

Initially, Russian policy towards the Jews of Poland was confused, alternating between harsh rules and somewhat more enlightened policies.

Initially a college of Theology and the Arts, St Salvator's was created to revitalize and focus the university after its somewhat disorderly foundation.

Initially, Trey Parker intended for God to look like somewhat a mixture of a cat and a hippo.

Initially shocked, Liz is relieved to have back-up she can trust but is determined to keep things professional ; she has become a clear-sighted and capable leader, somewhat to Kit's dismay.

Initially SA-FM was somewhat of a fringe operation, hampered largely by the fact that many houses, and more importantly most contemporary cars, did not have the ability to receive FM radio broadcasts.

Initially disdainful of Chise's behavior, and bitter because of her body's inability to use Chise's advanced system, Mizuki began to have second thoughts after seeing what the new system was doing to Chise.

Initially the festival was held in October, but due to the inclement weather and local heavy clay soil ( like the battle ) making the festival difficult it was moved to July.

Initially the march was mired by heavy rain.

Initially a center of coal mining, Sharon's economy transitioned to steelmaking and other heavy industry following the Industrial Revolution.

Initially the airfield was used as a relief landing ground for heavy bombers stationed at Rufforth and Marston Moor.

Initially, all models were issued in free-rolling form, or with friction drive motors, with the exception of the heavy commercials which would have been too bulky and the sports cars whose low slung bodies would not be able to accommodate the motors.

Initially the attacks were successful, but hard fought and some units took heavy casualties.

Initially, Famicom controllers were manufactured with square-shaped A and B buttons, but these were discontinued and recalled in 1984 due to being prone to heavy wear.

Initially heavy bronze or brass bodies were used, and the wires soldered, but later much lighter copper vessels were used, and the wire glued on before firing.

Initially, the water was cold, but the deeper workings cut into parts of the vein where there were heavy flows of hot water.

Initially widely condemned in view of the heavy Irish war losses on the Western Front and in the disastrous Gallipoli V beach landing at Cape Helles ( the main nationalist newspaper, the Irish Independent, demanded the execution of the rebels ), the British government's mishandling of the aftermath of the Rising, including the protracted executions of the Rising's leaders by General Maxwell, led to the rise of an Irish republican movement in Sinn Féin, a small previously separatist monarchist party taken over by the rebellion's survivors, after it had been wrongly blamed for the rebellion by the British.

Initially the Port Erin line had been planned to terminate at Castletown however the construction of deep water docking facilities at Port Erin caused an extension to the line-a few years after completion, the dock was destroyed by heavy seas and the idea of deep water vessels abandoned there, the remains of the breakwater are still visible at low tide in the village.

Initially on the end of some heavy defeats, the side has grown in competitiveness, recording a fourth place finish in 2007, and even in defeat, lop-sided losses are less frequent.

Initially the resolute Italian defenders prevailed with heavy casualties on both sides.

Initially, Southern Lord specialized in what could broadly be classified as experimental heavy metal, particularly the slow-moving doom metal, stoner rock, and drone metal sub-genres.

Initially this was by fitting heavy wooden wheels with solid rubber tyres, the carriages becoming Mks IIITR, IVR and VR.

Initially, he received reports that the Liao army was suffering heavy casualties.

Initially a trio of O ' Hare, his ( now ex ) wife Cerwyss ( bass ) and Russell McEwan ( drums-left to concentrate on his other band, Black Sun ), they were latterly a quartet adding Keith Beacom ( drums ) and Gordon Brady ( guitar ), both of whom were former members of heavy psyche outfit Bangtwister.

Initially pleasant weather ahead of the northeast-bound storm can lull the unwary into dressing lightly and then being surprised by heavy snow accompanied by howling easterly and northerly winds as the low traverses south to east of their location.

Initially the major wartime contract to manufacture Avro Lancaster heavy bombers was to go to the National Steel Car Ltd. headquartered in Hamilton, utilizing the Malton, Ontario factory ( near today's Toronto Pearson International Airport ).

Initially, before 1877, Russia did not wish to cooperate with Romania, since they did not wish Romania to participate in the peace treaties after the war, but the Russians encountered a very strong Turkish army of 50, 000 soldiers led by Osman Pasha at the Siege of Plevna ( Pleven ) where the Russian troops led by Russian generals suferred very heavy losses and were routed in several battles.

Initially, John Romero gave him a couple of heavy metal records and told him to create something similar for Doom.

Initially, when SOES was mandatory, it was met with heavy pessimism from NASDAQ member firms because it forced them to execute all SOES trades that met the market maker's advertised price.

Initially formed as a free theater group in Lund in 1968, Nationalteatern moved to Gothenburg and started to put heavy emphasis on the musical part of the plays.

* Initially one heavy machine gun of unknown make, several more added to the arsenal during the campaign