Initially on the advice of his mother, he attempted to buy the German tribes off, so as to gain time.

Initially signifying only a small coalition of Tiele tribes in Northern China, Mongolia, and the Altay Mountains, it later denoted citizenship in the Uyghur Khaganate.

Initially, the tribes were moved to the present state of Kansas, and later to Oklahoma in the Land administered by the Quapaw Indian Agency.

Initially, some Plains Indian tribes were agrarian and others were hunter-gathers.

Initially relations between participants in the Pike's Peak gold rush and the Native American tribes of the Front Range and the Platte valley were friendly.

Initially, the Virginia tribes ' efforts to gain federal recognition encountered resistance due to federal legislators ' concerns over whether gambling would be established on their lands if recognition were granted.

Initially, David was king over the Tribe of Judah only and ruled from Hebron, but after seven years the other Israelite tribes chose him to be their king as well:

Initially Caesar met with little Gallic resistance: the 60 or so tribes that made up Gaul were unable to unite and defeat the Roman army, something Caesar exploited by pitting one tribe against another.

Initially the native tribes of the area were friendly towards the settlers while still at war with one another.

Initially the local tribes resisted the restrictions of the new religion and soon deposed their ruler but he was later asked to return and assume power again.

Initially there were twelve tribes of Dhangar, and they had a division of labour amongst brothers of one family.

Initially ordered to take his command to the Rhineland for rest and reinforcements, Chill disregarded the order and moved his forces to the Albert Canal, linking up with the 719th ; he also had ' reception centres ' set up at the bridges crossing the Albert Canal, where small groups of retreating troops were picked up and turned into ' ad hoc ' units.

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

Initially erected at Samjeondo, near the Sambatnaru crossing point of the Han River, it was thereafter buried and erected again several times.

Initially, nine locks were used in a temporary arrangement to lower and raise the canal for the crossing of the River Great Ouse at Wolverton at the river's water level.

Initially, Hurricane Iris was forecast to remain a tropical cyclone while crossing Central America and for it to re-intensify in the eastern Pacific Ocean ; had it done so, it would have retained the name Iris.

Initially the First Red Army, with its baggage of top communist officials, records, currency reserves and other trapping of the exiled Chinese Soviet Republic, fought through several lightly defended Kuomintang checkpoints, crossing the Xinfeng River and through the province of Guangdong, south of Hunan and into Guangxi.

Initially crossed by ferries, the first bridge crossing Lennox Passage to connect with Isle Madame was constructed beginning in 1916 and opening in 1919.

Initially fighting on the Rhine with Max Emmanuel – receiving a slight head wound at the Siege of Mainz in 1689 – Eugene subsequently transferred himself to Piedmont after Victor Amadeus joined the Alliance against France in 1690.

Initially based on the Rhine foot, a more accurate national standard was adopted in 1698.

Initially Marshal Humières commanded French forces in this theatre but in 1689, while the French concentrated on the Rhine, it produced little more than a stand-off – the most significant engagement occurred when William's second-in-command, the Prince of Waldeck, defeated Humières in a skirmish at the Battle of Walcourt on 25 August.

Initially the men hoped to be able to wait for the British 2nd Army to resume their advance and thus relieve them, but when it became clear that the Allies would not cross the Rhine that year the men decided to escape back to Allied territory.

Initially the blue edge stripe was wavy, to signify the Rhine River, but that proved impractical to mass produce and was changed to a straight line.

Initially, treatment is similar to that for patients with thermal burns, and continued care can only be supportive ( e. g. intravenous fluids and nasogastric or parenteral feeding ) and symptomatic ( e. g., analgesic mouth rinse for mouth ulcer ).

Initially, the Swedish and Finnish settlers continued to enjoy local autonomy, retaining their own militia, religion, court, and lands.

Initially, most of its members were dissidents within Fatah who had been close to Abu Ali Iyad, the commander of Fatah forces in northern Jordan who continued to fight the Jordanian Army after the PLO leadership withdrew.

Initially a dispute between formerly Spanish Guatemala and the United Kingdom's colony of British Honduras, Guatemala continued its claim after Belizean independence in 1981 ; it recognized its neighbour's independence one decade later, in 1991.

Initially, he continued working in real estate, but later took a promotions job with the sporting goods retailer Mick Simmons Ltd.

Initially sensors were optical and acoustic devices developed during the First World War and continued into the 1930s, but were quickly superseded by radar, which in turn was supplemented by optronics in the 1980s.

Initially these systems were unwieldy and development of IR systems continued.

Initially Key had planned Puppy to be a side project while he continued his work in Images, however, when Images in Vogue relocated to Toronto, Key made Skinny Puppy his full-time project.

Initially, Dixon continued in the same role as in the film The Blue Lamp, a constable based at the fictitious Dock Green police station in the East End of London, which replaced Paddington Green police station from the film.

Initially Ballard continued to sing a spotlight solo number, " People " from the Broadway musical Funny Girl, for the Supremes ' stage show.

Initially Cumann na nGaedheal had been popular as the party that had established the state, but by 1932, their economic conservatism and continued repression of anti-Treaty Republicans was becoming unpopular.

Initially the Sassanid dynasty continued the cavalry traditions of the Parthians, fielding units of super-heavy cavalry.

( Initially, Air France continued serving Tegel twice daily from Orly, with one service routing via Frankfurt and the other operating non-stop.

Initially, all British Airways services from Tegel – with the exception of the daily non-stop service to London Heathrow – continued to be operated by BAC One-Eleven 500s.

Initially, Bush inherited an economy that continued the strong rally that had begun in the final months of 1982.

Initially called El Camino Nuevo ( the New Road ), it was later named the Chatsworth Grade Road, which continued in use until Santa Susana Pass Road ( now Old Santa Susana Pass Road ) was built in 1917.

Initially the coins and banknotes of the various predecessor currencies, such as the Thaler, the Kreuzer, and the Guilder, continued to circulate, and were treated as fixed multiples of the new unit of account.

Initially the economy was supported by war booty taken from occupied countries ; this continued to some extent until 1944.

Initially it carried horse-drawn trams, but shortly after the bridge's opening it was converted to carry the electric trams of London County Council Tramways ; it continued to carry trams until the ending of tram services in 1951.

Initially known as the " Liberal-Conservative Party ", it dropped " Liberal " from its name in 1873, although many of its candidates continued to use this name.

Initially, a handful of other private equity firms and hedge funds had planned to follow KKR's lead but shelved those plans when KPE's performance continued to falter after its IPO.

Initially this did occur for a short time ( 1976 – 1977 ), however the institutions had all degrees conferred by the National Council for Educational Awards after 1977, this continued until university status was achieved.

Initially aviators who had destroyed eight Allied aircraft received this distinction, as time went by, the qualification for the Pour le Mérite was progressively raised, but German fighter pilots continued to be officially hailed as national heroes for the remainder of the war,

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