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, 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, their proof was not accepted by all mathematicians because the computer-assisted proof was infeasible for a human to check by hand.

Initially successful, the colonists were driven out by local forces commanded by Murdoch and Neil MacLeod, who based their forces on Bearasaigh in Loch Ròg.

Initially calling their venture Dramatic Oil ( later renaming it Fuller Farm Oil ), the partners invested in a site along the Allegheny River at Franklin, Pennsylvania, in late 1863 for drilling.

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

Initially, the AMD K6 processors used a Pentium II-based performance rating ( PR2 ) to designate their speed.

Initially the division of the Arabic-speaking areas of the Ottoman Empire were to be divided by the Sykes-Picot Agreement ; however, the final disposition was at the San Remo conference of 1920, whose determinations on the mandates, their boundaries, purposes and organization was ratified by the League in 1921 and put into effect in 1922.

Initially invited by the Liberals in 1855 to join their struggle against the Conservatives, a United States adventurer named William Walker declared himself king in 1856.

Initially, the Rotarran's crew were beaten and fatalistic, a fact that was made worse by Martok's apparent reluctance to engage Jem ' Hadar forces on their first mission.

Initially their method was to cruise the coast, conducting quick kidnapping raids when opportunities presented themselves.

Initially the settlers were without a market nearby or a way to get their crops to market.

Initially, the thermodynamics of heat engines concerned mainly the thermal properties of their ' working materials ', such as steam.

Initially, German Enigma messages were the main source, with those of the German airforce predominating, as they used radio more, and their operators were particularly ill-disciplined.

Initially they met annually, but according to a UN press release from their session in 2004:

Initially the Network Walkman was a series of digital music players that used flash memory to hold their data.

Initially the label released recordings made by their television stars whether they could sing or not and records based on the soundtracks of favourite Warner Bros. Television shows.

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

Initially homes were considered worthy of saving because of their associations with important individuals, usually of the elite classes, like former presidents, authors, or businessmen.

Initially, the numbers corresponded to the alphabetical order of the names of the departments, but several changed their names, so the correspondence became less exact.

Initially, there was no commercially available software, and computer manufacturers considered it the customer ’ s responsibility to develop their own.

) Initially, a key group of software companies used DocBook since their representatives were involved in its initial design.

Initially, two additional levels of representation were introduced ( LF — Logical Form, and PF — Phonetic Form ), and then in the 1990s Chomsky sketched out a new program of research known as Minimalism, in which Deep Structure and Surface Structure no longer featured and PF and LF remained as the only levels of representation.

Initially, it was recorded that 57 lives were lost ; however, after extensive research by local historians, the figure has been revised upwards to 98.

Initially, he was interested in writing a biography, and began research on a biography of Manuel I of Portugal, which he believed was badly treated by other historians.

Initially tasked " to connect military planning with research and development decisions ," RAND widely expanded in its scope beyond its original mission.

Initially the competing electronic calculators were no cheaper nor smaller than the ANITA, but Bell Punch responded by opening a new research and development building on its Uxbridge site, and electronics research was increased for the calculators and the other Bell Punch products.

Initially, the institute was formed with the stated goal of basic research including trying to understand, in Hughes ' words, " the genesis of life itself.

Initially, hallucinogens were thought to blockade these serotonin neurotransmitters, but persistent research led to this agonist effect conclusion.

Initially, research focused upon their role in human disease: antithrombin deficiency results in thrombosis and antitrypsin deficiency causes emphysema.

Initially they were considered by Dr Martha Hardman ( on very limited data at the time ) to be different languages, but all subsequent fieldwork and research has contradicted this and demonstrated that they are mutually intelligible but divergent dialects of a single language.

Initially the classifiers or rules were binary, but recent research has expanded this representation to include real-valued,

Initially a holding company will be set up by the council which will own 100 % of the shares, thereafter the council intends to do market research to seek the level of interest in private sector investors.

Initially focusing on the study of immune disorders under the leadership of Frank J. Dixon, over the following 25 years the faculty grew and diversified its research interests, precipitating another name change in 1977, to The Research Institute of Scripps Clinic.

Initially, the regiment was called the " King's Fusiliers "; however in the third season of Soldier Soldier, which took place during the Options for Change military reforms, the King's Fusiliers was forced to amalgamate with another regiment, " The Cumbrians ( Duke of Rutland's Own )"; although attempts were made by the Cumbrians to keep the new regiment as an ordinary infantry regiment, rather than a fusilier regiment, the regimental commander of the King's Fusiliers found in his research that, at some point during their history, the Cumbrians had served as fusiliers.

Initially the activities were confined to providing legal aid to women, but gradually these activities increased to including legal awareness, education, protection from exploitation, legal research, counseling and providing legal assistance as well.

Initially this class included a Comp IV ( research writing ) element, although this is not included at this time.

Initially his research was in semiconductor device electronics, leading him to write a book on differential amplifiers.

Initially he taught Government Studies at Cornell, and continued his research on modern Chinese history.

Initially from Canada, the two brothers moved to Hong Kong to form the company in 1982 as an independent research & development and manufacturing outfit.

Initially he worked in a sales role but later in research and development.

Initially he tried to hire some of his former workers from Bell Labs, but none of them wanted to leave the east coast, then the center of most high-tech research.

Initially this was strongly biased towards scientific research that supported the industrial and commercial development of the dominions and colonies.

Initially sceptical of Liébeault's theories, methods and clinical results, the French neurologist, Hippolyte Bernheim eventually joined Liébeault in 1882, and they conducted a clinic and further research together.

Initially intending to study dolphin communication, she was instead tossed out of Scripps for doing " forbidden research " on dolphin communication.