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, he used an electric Jacobaeus thoracolaparoscope for his diagnostic procedures, which produced a dim view of the joint.

Initially, Catherine attempted to rationalize government procedures through law.

Initially, the decryption was mainly of Luftwaffe and a few Army messages, as the German Navy employed much more secure procedures for using Enigma.

Initially he experimented with individual cells in series, each cell being a wine goblet filled with brine into which the two dissimilar electrodes were dipped.

Initially an innovation to aid the recovery of downed pilots, they were sidelined when the front became static.

Initially, balls of wool referred as ball badminton were preferred by the upper classes in windy or wet conditions, but ultimately the shuttlecock stuck.

Initially, there were 25 franchises, but the number of different operating companies is smaller as some firms, including First Group, National Express Group and Stagecoach Group, run more than one franchise.

Initially grateful, Jonah's anger returns the next day, when God sends a worm to eat the plant, withering it, and he tells God that it would be better if he were dead.

Initially, the Cossacks were commanded by Colonel Filon Dzhalalii, but after a few days he was replaced by Ivan Bohun.

Initially, some problems were experienced when it was commanded to track the Sun, but a series of software fixes were made and the problem was corrected.

Initially, it was suspected that the killings were committed by a Satanic cult ; later more killings were reported around the island, and many farms reported loss of animal life.

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 in the production, the ethnic groups were not solidly established.

Initially, on 1 July 1867, there were four provinces in confederation as " One dominion under the name of Canada ": Canada West ( former Upper Canada, now Ontario ), Canada East ( former Lower Canada, now Quebec ), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick.

Initially however, these groups were small and conducted little active raiding into Nicaragua.

Initially these were uncommon events, but since WWII, these have been made by most presidents.

Initially, the idea of having Ball and the distinctly Latino Arnaz portray a married couple encountered resistance as they were told that Desi's Cuban accent and Latin style would not be agreeable to American viewers.

Initially the owners of AOI were the governments of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, before the latter governments gave their shares back to Egypt in 1993, valued at $ 1. 8 billion.

Initially, it was believed that low frequency fields that were too weak to cause significant heating could not possibly have any biological effect.

Initially, Brick and Click companies were skeptical whether or not to add an online e-commerce channel for fear that selling their products might produce channel conflict with their off-line retailers, agents, or their own stores.

Initially, most known exoplanets were massive planets that orbited very close to their parent stars.

Initially registers were limited to an accumulator and a multiplier register.

Initially, a number of nationwide systems were set up, such as Interlink, which were limited to participating correspondent banking relationships, not being linked to each other.

Initially, the victims ' corpses were buried in mass graves, but later were cremated.

Initially a drummerless duo, Ballew and Dederer performed a half-dozen or so shows in 1993 as " The Lo-Fis ", " The Dynamic Duo ", and " Pure Frosting.

Initially, as an armed guerrilla organization, the PLO was responsible for terrorist activities performed against Israel in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Initially participating in genderfuck-style performances, RuPaul performed solo and in collaboration with other bands at several New York nightclubs, most notably the Pyramid Club.

Initially, Rice and his peers performed only in relatively disreputable venues, but as blackface gained popularity they gained opportunities to perform as entr ' actes in theatrical venues of a higher class.

Initially unable to play his bass, he rebuilt his strength with intense woodshedding and practice as well as live club gigs where he performed sets of Stooges covers with Hellride in California and with J Mascis and Dinosaur Jr. drummer Murph in New York under the name Hellride East.

Initially, he performed duty as a motorcycle despatch rider, before transferring to the Royal Flying Corps, earning his pilot's wings in 1917.

Initially, PM was based on Windows GUI code, and often had developments performed in advance, like the support for proportional fonts ( which appeared in Windows only in 1990 ).

Initially he appears to have been an actor, perhaps a sharer, in the Admiral's Men, who performed at the Rose Theatre.

Initially, similarity based on alignments of whole sequences was performed.

Initially Pokryshkin dived to escape, but realizing that the heavier and faster Gustavs would catch him sooner, he performed a chandelle and a barrel roll later.

Initially, all executions were performed by hanging ; lethal gas was adopted as the method after 1931.

Initially, partial callosotomies are performed ; if this operation does not succeed, a complete callosotomy is performed to mitigate the risk of accidental physical injury by reducing the severity and violence of epileptic seizures.

Initially the devices were not widely used because of their expense, and the fact that valves were being made smaller, and performed better.

Initially, the works performed in Hamburg had all been on religious themes in an attempt to ward off criticisms by Pietist church authorities that the theatre was immoral, but Keiser and fellow composers such as Johann Mattheson broadened the range of subject matter to include the historical and the mythological.

Initially, Clouseau only performed at local venues.

Initially active until 1996, Los Tres Gusanos regrouped in 2002, then again in 2005, and has performed together many times since.

Initially named Scollay Square Station, it was made famous in 1959 when The Kingston Trio performed a cover of a 1948 Boston protest song, originally known as " Charlie On the MTA " but became a national hit as " M. T. A .," about a man who is trapped to ride on the subway forever due to exit fares, an unpopular fare-collection method that survived until 2007 on some MBTA extensions.

Initially he lived and performed primarily in Washington D. C., but in winter 1987 he moved to New York City.

Initially the SGI geometry hardware performed simple model space to screen space viewing transformations with all the lighting and shading handled by a separate hardware implementation stage, but in later, much higher performance applications such as the RealityEngine, they began to be applied to perform part of the rendering support as well.

Initially he stayed in Florence where he was introduced to Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti, and where his first Italian opera was composed and performed.

Initially they performed together under their own names, and as such released their first album, Silly Sisters, later taking this name as the name of their duo.

Initially it was difficult for Robas to sing these songs himself, and they were performed by a military band.