Initially viewed with prejudice and discrimination because it had black roots, the samba, because of its hypnotic rhythms and melodic intonations in addition to its playful lyrics, eventually conquered the white middle class as well.

Initially, running live sport games was viewed with skepticism as it was believed that fans would rather stay at home if they could watch for free.

Initially, the Nation of Gods and Earths was viewed as little more than an off-shoot of the Nation of Islam ( NOI ).

Initially viewed as a suspicious provisional procedure by some of its originators, renormalization eventually was embraced as an important and self-consistent tool in several fields of physics and mathematics.

Initially, the British government viewed the conferences as little more than “ Communist front gatherings ”.

Initially, Groo viewed Rufferto as a potential meal but eventually came to regard him as his faithful companion.

Initially many on both sides of the Channel thought the French would follow the pattern of the English Glorious Revolution of a century before, and the Revolution was viewed positively by a large portion of the British public.

Initially, such rulers of Europe as Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, viewed the revolution in France as an event between the French king and his subjects, and not something in which they should interfere.

Initially, Eaton's victory in Derne was viewed by both parties as the motivating factor for Tripoli in the settlement of the war.

Initially, the rulers of Europe, such Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, viewed the revolution in France as an event between the French king and his subjects, and not something in which they should interfere.

Initially, the main attractions of BBC Choice were multi-broadcast TV shows, with the option to choose which programme you viewed.

Initially viewed as an unlikely prospect to win his party's nomination, Clinton did so and went on to defeat incumbent President George H. W. Bush, who had been viewed as politically invincible just a year earlier.

Initially hip hop was viewed with suspicion, not just by the government, but by many in the community as well.

Initially viewed by his coach to be too scrawny to play football, Kerney eventually became team captain and was selected Most Valuable Player while recording three sacks, one blocked punt, one interception and 84 tackles in just eight games as a junior.

Initially viewed as an uneducated, eccentric old man, Dersu earns the respect of the soldiers through his great intelligence, accurate instincts, keen powers of observation, and deep compassion.

Initially rotating in a counter-clockwise direction when viewed from Marina Centre, its direction was changed on 4 August 2008 under the advice of Feng shui masters.

Initially focusing on the small-end of the computer market allowed DEC to grow without its potential competitors making serious efforts to compete with them.

: Initially code-named " Cougar ", HTML 4. 0 adopted many browser-specific element types and attributes, but at the same time sought to phase out Netscape's visual markup features by marking them as deprecated in favor of style sheets.

Initially the party of the Malaysian Chinese Association was pro-ROC and mainly consisted of Kuomintang members who joined as an alternative and were also in opposition to the Malayan Communist Party, supporting the Kuomintang in China by funding them with the intention of reclaiming the Chinese mainland from the communists.

Initially, concerns for secrecy kept their military designation from being known by the soldiers who operated them.

Initially rejected from the most important commercial show of the time, the government-sponsored Paris Salon, the Impressionists organized yearly group exhibitions in commercial venues during the 1870s and 1880s, timing them to coincide with the official Salon.

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, the perpetrators ' plan was to go to Riem, which was the international airport near Munich at the time, but the negotiators convinced them that Fürstenfeldbruck would be more practical.

Initially they found it difficult to score the series as the plot itself was still being reworked around the new concept, but the plot changes were finished in time for them to prepare the score and give the film the desired final " epic touch.

Initially mostly Ruthenian and Orthodox, with time most of them became polonized.

Initially, Moore observes them from a distance, but eventually — while researching and writing From Hell — he joins them.

Initially these were small scale attacks launched by refugees often motivated by economic reasons, but they were quickly adopted by the military of the neighboring Arab states, who organized them into semi-formal brigades which mounted larger scale operations from 1954 onwards.

Initially, the trio were wary about performing, until encouraging words from Robbie Robertson inspired them to try.

Initially, the United States supported these remnants and the Central Intelligence Agency provided them with aid.

Initially, there were thousands of fumaroles in the cooling ash from the eruption, but over time most of them have become extinct.

Initially, many of them don't understand, or refuse to, stubbornly insisting on still going to Mecca.

Initially a vassal of Poland-Lithuania, the increasing social and religious pressure from the Commonwealth caused them to proclaim an independent Cossack Hetmanate, initiated by a rebellion under Bohdan Khmelnytsky in the mid-17th century.

Initially, the Siamese paid little attention to them.

Initially the Choctaws were to be transported by wagon but floods halted them.

Initially, the Naskapis lived in tiny shacks that they built for themselves, but by 1962 Indian and Northern Affairs had built 30 houses for them, and a further four were under construction at a cost of 5, 000 $ each.

Initially, they believe the planet is uninhabited, due to the difference in scale between them and human beings.

Initially, the Tokugawa regarded them as potentially rebellious, but for most of the Edo period, marriages between the Tokugawa and the tozama, as well as control policies such as sankin kōtai, resulted in peaceful relations.

Initially, the similarities between their voices made it difficult for listeners ( as opposed to stage audiences ) to tell them apart due to their rapid-fire repartee.

Initially, they were welcomed, and their excellent views made them popular living places.

Initially, Troska refuses to have any part in the fighting and rebukes them because he wants to put the combat behind and also believes that any resistance will take many of the inexperienced soldiers ' lives.

Initially thriving in North America during the first half of the 1920s, by 1927 competition between acts demanded more and more dangerous tricks and a rash of highly publicized accidents forced the implementation of new safety regulations that resulted in the demise of barnstorming.

Initially, the new Seon schools were regarded by the established doctrinal schools as radical and dangerous upstarts.

Initially, transport was done by barge from the Wahweap Creek gravel deposits shortly upstream, but this was dangerous and was replaced by a vertical cable system when a barge capsized, spilling tons of machinery into the river.

Initially Priestley wanted to return and deliver a sermon on the Bible verse " Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do ," but he was dissuaded by friends convinced that it was too dangerous.

Initially these tended to be oilfield supply ships or fishing vessels ; however, keeping this kind of ship ' on station ', particularly during uncertain weather, made the diving dangerous, problematic and seasonal.

Initially this is based on the explanation of the character Doc Daneeka as to why any pilot requesting a psych evaluation hoping to be found not sane enough to fly, and thereby escape dangerous missions, would thereby demonstrate his sanity:

Initially, the Sterlings are unclear as to why Admiral Gloval wanted them to bring Dana along on such a dangerous mission.

Initially he pursued stories such as the reconstruction of the marshlands drained by Saddam Hussein, but in the process of meeting and speaking to locals on all levels, from people in the street to government officials, he uncovered and began investigating reports of Iran's growing logistical and financial support for the local insurgency and the unchecked movement over the border of Iranian agents, drug smuggling to support the area's militias, the killing of Basra's Christian populace, increasing corruption and violence in the local police force and the inexplicable unwillingness of the British forces stationed there to address such dangerous issues.