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, a newspaper page included only a single daily strip, usually either at the top or the bottom of the page.

Initially undifferentiated, the tubercle develops into either a penis or a clitoris, depending on the presence or absence of the protein tdf, which is codified by a single gene on the Y chromosome.

Initially a joke, the company was incorporated after the show expanded from a single station to national syndication.

Initially, most IRC servers formed a single IRC network, to which new servers could join without restriction, but this was soon abused by people who set up servers to sabotage other users, channels, or servers.

Initially, Descartes arrives at only a single principle: thought exists.

Initially, Folken and Dilandau were a single enemy commander, but as the story fleshed out, the creators felt the series would be more interesting if there were two with very different personalities.

Initially another double album was planned, comprising live material from this tour plus new studio tracks, but a single album, Goodbye was released instead with three live tracks taken from their performance at The Forum in Los Angeles on 19 October 1968, and three studio tracks, one written by each of the band members.

Initially only airing a single game weekly, the modern incarnation airs a weekly double-header, various segments during the intermissions and between games ( such as Don Cherry's Coach's Corner ), and pre and post-game coverage of the night's games.

Initially only a single Zenith player was available, along with 19 titles.

Initially, the commingled recyclates are removed from the collection vehicle and placed on a conveyor belt spread out in a single layer.

Initially Julf was asked to turn over the identities of all users of his remailer ( which numbered over 300, 000 at the time ), but he managed a compromise and revealed only the single user being sought by the Church of Scientology.

Initially, the county had a single courthouse at Ozark.

Initially dismissed in the music press as a " teeny bob sensation " were Norwegian band a-ha, whose use of guitars and real drums produced an accessible form of synthpop, which, along with a MTV friendly video, took single " Take on Me " ( 1985 ) to number two in the UK and number one in the US.

Initially, " Singlish " and " Manglish " were essentially the same language, when Singapore and Malaysia were a single political entity: Malaya.

Initially, the band went by the name Chunk ( original drummer Chuck Garrison's name was misspelled as " Chunk " Garrison in the phone book, and the moniker stuck ), and they released their first single as Chunk.

Initially, the band's music featured a free, extended improvisational method ( similar to Miles Davis's Bitches Brew-period work ), but by the mid-1970s this had moved towards more groove-orientated and pre-structured music ( as epitomized by their hit single " Birdland ").

Initially, the storylines of the daily strips and Sunday pages were different, but on August 26, 1936 they merged into a single storyline.

Initially ' the Games ' consisted of a single event, a sprint along the length of the stadium.

Initially this was from a single branch from Farnham, but in 1865 a new fast line from the SWML at Brookwood through Aldershot.

Initially a single shop, it later expanded into a major supermarket chain after the Second World War with most retail outlets located in Shizuoka prefecture, south of Tokyo.

Initially introduced as a single sedan body style, the range expanded in 1979 to include a station wagon, with utility and long-wheelbase Statesman / Caprice derivatives following in 1990.

" Initially, the therapy consists simply of blood replacement ( using new blood grown in vitro ), but according to Time Enough for Love, this single therapy was eventually expanded to include the gradual replacement of nearly all body parts as well as emotional therapy.

Initially canal and railway shared the tunnel, with the single track built on timber supports, but by 1847 canal use was abandoned and a double track laid.

Initially, the school seems to have consisted of a single room, but early in the twentieth century an infant classroom and cloakrooms were added to the west, and the main entrance appears to have been moved from the north to the south side.