Initially, the director of civil status refused to permit the change on the grounds that a male could not bear a female name.

Initially, he had planned to hand over power to the former director of police, General Roderico Anzueto, whom he felt he could control.

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

Initially, he had planned to hand over power to the former director of police, General Roderico Anzueto, who he felt he could control.

Initially, Bruno Mégret was the chairman, with Serge Martinez vice-chairman, Jean-Yves Le Gallou, executive director and Franck Timmermans secretary-general.

Initially, he had no money and no command of French, but was nevertheless able to obtain a job at the famous Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, whose director, Pierre Janssen ( one of the co-founders of astrophysics ), saw Štefánik ’ s talent.

Initially two candidates entered the race: campaign director Dominic Cardy and former provincial candidate Pierre Cyr.

* Initially, Saluri Rajeswara Rao was the music director for the film.

Initially, Marsden continued as director of operations, and as executive producer of the CASBY Awards, but left CFNY a year later.

Initially he shot mainly for the companies such as West Coast Productions and director Spunky.

Initially, the radio and television stations shared staff such as Andy Steven ( who was CHEK's first news director ) and Kieth MacKenzie ( sports director ).

Initially, the WAAF used the ATS ranking system, although the director held the rank of " Senior Controller " ( equivalent to Brigadier in the British Army, Air Commodore in the RAF ) instead of " Chief Controller " ( equivalent to Major-General, Air Vice-Marshal ) as in the ATS.

Initially TSU was seen as a trade school, and its origin as such could be traced to as early as 1906, when the director of public instruction mandated the offering of intermediate grades and selected areas in the country to cater to industrial and vocational courses.

Initially he enjoyed success at the club despite an ongoing power struggle between chairman William McKeag ( who had installed Mitten and gave him full control over the team ) and director and former manager Stan Seymour ( who felt the board should be able to veto Mitten's tactics and team selections ), and steered the club to a pair of solid mid-table finishes.

Initially he was given the title " director ", but in July 2003 he was made a permanent director by the University of California without any further search.

Initially appearing in Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, the character was created by a team of storywriters at Crystal Dynamics, notably series director Amy Hennig, and conceptualized by various Crystal Dynamics artists, with his in-game appearance directed and designed by Daniel Cabuco.

Initially he was requested to write an emergency chart for the following day, but he was hired as a score writer and continued writing and conducting on the show, before replacing Tommy Oliver as music director.

Initially named the Special Events Arena in when it opened in 1994, the arena was later named after the late Stan Sheriff, a former UH athletic director who lobbied for its construction.

Initially the club's director of hockey operations, he soon accepted the team's head coaching position and guided the Sabres for the next four seasons.

Initially, he worked for four years in advertising with the agency J Walter Thompson, then for 14 years as a director of Accrep Ltd, a property investment firm.

Initially receiving only bit parts, she was soon spotted by Lois Weber, a highly regarded and influential director and producer of silent films for Paramount Pictures.

Initially considered for the part of Dudley Dursley, after an audition at Leavesden Studios in front of director Chris Columbus he was cast as Vincent Crabbe.

Initially the White House reaction was that the bitter exchanges with Moscow over Cuba and the conflict in Laos had dampened prospects for a meeting.

Initially, she encountered similar problems as she had experienced at Blake Hall.

Initially, Raimi invited Scott Spiegel to co-write Army of Darkness because he had done a good job on Evil Dead II, but he was busy on rewrites for the Clint Eastwood film The Rookie.

Initially, ice on the wings was blamed, but a later inquiry declared that slush on the runway had made a safe take-off almost impossible.

Initially the frigate squadron was mistaken for French warships and chased away by Swiftsure, returning the following day once the error had been realised.

Initially, the M-19 attracted a degree of attention and sympathy from mainstream Colombians that the FARC and National Liberation Army ( ELN ) had found largely elusive earlier due to extravagant and daring operations, such as stealing a sword that had belonged to Colombia's Independence hero Simon Bolívar.

Initially it was a supporting material publication for White Bear and Red Moon but for its 11th issue, in 1981, it had become the official RuneQuest magazine.

Initially formed to fight against counter-revolutionaries and saboteurs, as well as financial speculators, Cheka had its own classifications.

Initially he sought to avoid the kind of sectarianism he had seen in England.

Initially, the systems brought American stations to viewers in Canada who had no Canadian stations to watch ; broadcast television, though begun late in 1952 in Toronto and Montreal, did not reach a majority of cities until 1954.

Initially the Court took a restrictive view on what consisted of torture, preferring to find that states had inflicted inhuman and degrading treatment.

Initially Sorel had officially been a revisionist of Marxism, but by 1910 announced his abandonment of socialist literature and claimed in 1914, using an aphorism of Benedetto Croce that " socialism is dead " because of the " decomposition of Marxism ".

Initially, little drastic change in government policy had occurred and repressive police actions were limited.

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 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, Luther and Calvin had mutual respect for each other.

Initially, Germany hoped to transform Poland into a satellite state, but by March 1939 German demands had been rejected by the Poles three times, which led Hitler to decide, with enthusiastic support from Ribbentrop, upon the destruction of Poland as the main German foreign policy goal of 1939.

Initially Britain had supported the anti-communist factions in those countries, but due to its dire economic condition it decided to pull out and in February 1947 requested the U. S. to continue its efforts.

Initially its spread was confined to PARC and a few universities to which Xerox had donated some Altos.

Initially, Henry refused to see Beatrice, but eventually he had her imprisoned in rough conditions ; the young Frederick was treated more appropriately, but he died in Henry's custody nonetheless ( the rumours that he was murdered are baseless ).

Initially this was done because it was easier to provide good insulation for the secondary winding of an external coil than it was in a coil buried in the construction of the magneto ( early magnetos had the coil assembly externally to the rotating parts to make them easier to insulate — at the expense of efficiency ).

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

Initially, Saturn probably had a tilt closer to that of Jupiter ( 3. 1 °).

Initially, the FBI had three hypotheses regarding who might have been responsible for the bombing.