Initially there was considerable debate amongst linguists as to whether Vedda is a dialect of Sinhalese or an independent language.

Initially, this dialect was used to represent crooks and uncouth characters as, to quote film critic Shoma A. Chatterji, " Indian films have the unique quality of different characters speaking different varieties of Hindi according to their social status, their caste, communal identity, education, profession, financial status, etc.

Initially they wore it loose, held in place with a band around the brow and covered with a snood, kerchief or veil.

Initially, ten regional reliability councils were created by groups of interconnected power systems, which collectively covered the entire footprints of the major North American interconnections, and NERC was then formed as a more formalized successor to NAPSIC to spearhead reliability efforts and assist the regional councils by developing common operating policies and procedures as well as training resources and requirements.

Initially the gate could not be closed as it was covered in a thick layer of gravel.

Initially, Ibestad municipality covered a large area from the Vågsfjorden to the border with Sweden ( the old Astafjord church parish ).

Initially his command covered India and Iraq so that within a month of taking charge he launched Iraqforce to invade Persia in co-operation with the Russians in order to secure the oilfields and secure lines of communication to the Soviet Union.

Initially these covered the period just before his X-Wing novels.

Initially when the dreamer sees the Cross, he notes how it is covered with gems.

Initially, the paid fire service only covered New York City ( present day Manhattan ), until the act of 1865 which united Brooklyn with New York to form the Metropolitan District.

Initially, WISPs were only found in rural areas not covered by cable or DSL.

Initially, ERISA restricted IRAs to workers who were not covered by a qualified employment-based retirement plan.

Initially, products that fall under the covered scope must provide markings and disclosure as to the presence of certain substances, while the substances themselves are not ( yet ) prohibited.

Initially this covered swimming but was extended to other sports for the Atlanta and Sydney Olympics.

Initially this covered only elected trades, such as building, engineering and shipbuilding.

Initially, prodrazvyorstka covered the collection of bread and fodder.

Initially published monthly between November 1981 ( magazine launch date was 14 October 1981 ) and October 2004 and solely web-based from 2004 onwards, the magazine was one of the first publications to capitalise on the growing home computing market, although it also covered arcade games.

Initially, Ross was apprehensive, as she had previously covered the song as a member of the Supremes in a duet with The Temptations ( see below ).

Initially it covered all of Rutland and Melton Borough and part of Charnwood.

Initially the map is covered with fog of war, but the player may remove the fog from tiles by clicking on them.

Initially, players used the same sticks as they had for colf, with bails made of tightly-wound wool, covered with leather.

Initially, the SPSF covered a limited range of State public sector employees because of Constitutional limitations ; it was unclear until the 1980s how widely the SPSF was able to operate, particularly as a party to industrial disputes.

Initially, most of the island was covered by rainforest, but as a result of human activity its area gradually declined and by the end of the 20th century was not more than 10 % of the island.

Initially, it only included final year exams but since 1997 has covered all exams for which grades are allocated.

Initially, Michael Tozzi hosted middays, Teri Webb ( who left the new station in August 2007 ) covered evenings and weekend shifts and bassist Gerald Veasley did weekend afternoons.

Initially, it mostly covered science fiction, but branched out to cover other drama and comedy series.

Initially, half of Connecticut was a part of the Dutch colony, New Netherland, which included much of the land between the Connecticut and Delaware rivers.

Initially dubbed Living Pictures Theatre, it gained much popularity and by the end of the next decade there were cinemas in almost every major town of Poland.

Initially, Lauda did not want Prost to become his teammate, as he presented a much faster rival.

Initially, the young are blind and helpless, much like the young of many other cats, and weigh from.

Initially Babylon was a small nation which did not control much territory, and was overshadowed by much older, powerful, and more established kingdoms like Isin, Larsa, Assyria and Elam.

Initially, Sun Quan mourned his brother's death so much that he could do nothing, but at Zhang Zhao's behest, he dressed himself in military uniform and set out to visit the commanderies under his brother's control.

Initially, it seemed unlikely that a man that was the source of so much mockery could ever hope to compete against the confident and intellectual Pierre Trudeau.

Initially, the crossing was not used as much as expected, probably because of the high tolls.

Initially a gathering of traders from the entire region the market has long since grown to be more than a simple gathering of traders and is now a week long cultural event with lectures, music recitals and much more.

Initially there was much confusion among republicans on the ground, Martin McGuinness for example, joined the Official IRA in 1970, unaware that there had been a split and only later joined the Provisionals.

Initially there was much resistance to lawyers in colonial North America because of the role they had played in hierarchical England, but slowly the colonial governments started using the services of professionals trained in the Inns of Court in London, and by the end of the American Revolution there was a functional bar in each state.

Initially published from 1970 to 1973 by the magazine Pif gadget, it brought him much popular and critical success.

Initially, not much of the klezmer tradition was maintained by U. S. Jews ; there were only a few Yiddish folk singers.

Initially, gamma radiation from the fission products of an equivalent size fission-fusion-fission bomb are much more intense than Co-60: 15, 000 times more intense at 1 hour ; 35 times more intense at 1 week ; 5 times more intense at 1 month ; and about equal at 6 months.

Initially, there was much resistance within the movement against the founding of a political party, motivated by Robert Michels ' iron law of oligarchy, which claims that movements inevitably degenerate into oligarchies when they create a formal organization.

Initially intended to be a much larger set light rail network, with branches to Leiderdorp, the district Ridderfeld in Alphen and Schiphol.

Initially on the outskirts, it is now in the heart of the much grown town of Puttaparthi.

Initially ignored by the state media, bards like Vladimir Vysotsky, Bulat Okudzhava, Alexander Galich gained so much popularity that they finished being distributed by the state owned Melodiya record company.

Initially, this process, too, required a very long exposure to produce a distinct image, but Daguerre made the crucial discovery that an invisibly faint " latent " image created by a much shorter exposure could be chemically " developed " into a visible image.

Initially higly critical of the calling of the second Lambeth Conference ( 1878 ) he was won over by the experience, writing in his biography that, ' I feel I have learned much from the Pananglican and I see, too, that it is really an institution which will root itself and will ... exercise a powerful influence in the future of the Anglican Communion.

Initially there was much resistance and hostility to the plan from locals, especially when it was revealed that any development would be carried out not by the local council but by a newly appointed government body, the Hemel Hempstead Development Corporation ( later amalgamated with similar bodies to form the Commission for New Towns ).

Initially assigned to B-29 escort duties, however, the straight-winged F-84E was much too slow to match the swept-wing MiG-15, and MiGs were often able to slip through the escort screen and make successful attacks on B-29s.

Initially the stemming ski has relatively little pressure applied — much less than half the skier's weight.

Initially Baldwin IV vested much authority in Guy, appointing him his regent during times of his own incapacitation.