Initially the victims were killed with gas vans or by firing squad, but these methods proved impracticable for an operation of this scale.

Initially a supporter of Joseph Stalin after Vladimir Lenin's death, he came to oppose a large number of Stalin's policies and was one of Stalin's most prominent victims during the " Moscow Trials " and purges of the Old Bolsheviks in the late 1930s.

Initially inaugurated as the (" Forest of the Departed "), on the first anniversary of the devastating attack, on 11 March 2005, the site was renamed the following year at the request of the victims.

Initially the song was played at the funeral of 42 military plane crash victims.

Initially the Italians coexisted peacefully with their neighbors, but during World War II they were the victims of prejudice and discrimination to the point that even today Italians in Calgary feel that Canadian society does not reward those who maintain their ethnicity.

Initially calling for " abusers to have but a taste of the fear and anguish their victims suffer on a daily basis ", activists established a separate idea from adhering to the Animal Liberation Front's ( ALF ) guidelines of non-violent resistance, similar to that of the Animal Rights Militia ( ARM ).

Initially some of the victims refused to cooperate with the police because he had warned them that police would be double agents or MI5 agents performing another " loyalty test ".

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

Initially Saint Ludmila was buried at St. Michael's at Tetín.

Initially they were nothing more than a buried high explosive shell or mortar bomb with its fuze upright.

Initially it was to be buried below ground, but problems with the local London Clay on the site meant it was eventually built by Sir Robert McAlpine at a depth of, although it was still able to withstand being hit by a bomb.

) Initially, he would refuse to allow Grand Empress Dowager Guo to be buried with Emperor Xianzong or to be enshrined in Emperor Xianzong's temple, but eventually allowed her to be buried with Emperor Xianzong.

Initially buried on the spot, in 1952 his body was exhumated and moved to Warsaw's Powązki Military Cemetery.

Initially, the dead were buried where they fell, but by 1874 the remains had been removed to the San Diego Military Reservation.

Initially, the first two bodies to be recovered were buried in the Linda Cemetery, however when the final victim ( John Bourke ) was recovered, the pair were buried at Queenstown at the same time as Bourke.

" Initially she was buried in an unmarked grave behind Mount Vernon Baptist Church.

Initially, western ballistic missiles could not even reach such targets, which would be located deep within interior of the Sino-Soviet land mass in Asia.

Initially, it was thought that the EPROM would be too expensive for mass production use and that it would be confined to development only.

Initially the Polish intelligentsia was targeted by harsh German racial and cultural policies and hundreds of people from the area, most notably priests, teachers and artists, were murdered in mass executions.

* Initially during startup of a vibrator, some force is necessary to lift and lower the entire load mass of the system.

Initially both factions agreed that the GMP ought to stay intact and that it would be spared from the split for the sake of unity of the mass organization movement, but soon competition over control over the organization started.

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 the party had been under the sway of the Japanese theorist Yamakawa Hitoshi, who advocated uniting the workers, peasants, and the petty bourgeoisie to form a mass party.

Initially IPF had been projected as a united front of different revolutionary groups, but most other factions dropped out in the formation process and IPF effectively became a mass organisation of CPI ( ML ) Liberation.

Initially, they attempted to organize a mass movement to South Carolina and later Idaho.

Initially, Hamas and Islamic Jihad unilaterally declared a 45-day temporary ceasefire (" hudna "), conditional on Israel ceasing its assassinations of Palestinian leaders and a mass release of thousands of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons without trial or charges.

Initially, when these models were being developed and tested, it seemed that the mathematics behind those models, which were satisfactory in areas already tested, would also forbid elementary particles from having any mass, which showed clearly that these initial models were incomplete.

Initially, at small molecular density on the surface, adsorbate molecules form either a disordered mass of molecules or form an ordered two dimensional " lying down phase ", and at higher molecular coverage, over a period of minutes to hours, begin to form three dimensional crystalline or semicrystalline structures on the substrate surface.

Initially, The Slow Clothing Movement was intended to reject all mass produced clothing referring only to clothing made by hand, but has broadened to include many interpretations and is practiced in various ways.

Initially, the mass floats, but sinks up to 12 hours after laying, or when disturbed.