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 in the United States, there was a market separation between " music " CD-Rs and " data " CD-Rs, the former being several times more expensive than the latter due to industry copyright arrangements with the RIAA.

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, there are solution | solute molecules on the left side of a barrier ( purple line ) and none on the right.

Initially, there were technical difficulties in synchronizing images with sound.

Initially dubbed Living Pictures Theatre, it gained much popularity and by the end of the next decade there were cinemas in almost every major town of Poland.

Initially, there was some uncertainty whether any

Initially, there are Solution | solute molecules on the left side of a barrier ( purple line ) and none on the right.

Initially, his parents lived there, but, after his mother's death in 1851, he made the Villa Verdi at Sant ' Agata in Villanova sull ' Arda his home until his death.

Initially being near the Caspian Sea in 91 AD, the Huns migrated to the southeastern area of the Caucasus by about 150 AD and into Europe by 370 AD, where they established a vast Hunnic Empire there.

Initially there are three cups available – the Mushroom Cup, Flower Cup and Star Cup – at two difficulty levels, 50cc and 100cc.

Initially, only a handful of wounded people were found at the site, and in the weeks that followed it became evident that there weren't any survivors to be found.

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, there was outcry by national newspapers and some viewers regarding the UK licence fee being used to fund such a potentially high jackpot prize.

Initially there was considerable debate amongst linguists as to whether Vedda is a dialect of Sinhalese or an independent language.

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

Initially there were five schools: four scientific ( civil engineering, mechanical engineering, mining and metallurgy, and analytical chemistry ) and one of general literature.

Initially four girls, today there are sixty.

Initially, whole milk was shipped to the butter factories, and the cream separation took place there.

Initially, the exposition was offered to Toronto but politicians there rejected the idea.

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

Initially, there was tension between the people of the Mission and those in the nearby Pueblo de San Jose over disputed ownership rights of land and water.

Initially denying the existence of a so-called " Category I " admissions program, university President B. Joseph " Joe " White and Chancellor Richard Herman later admitted that there were instances of preferential treatment.

Initially many Greek city-states seem to have been petty kingdoms ; there was often a city official carrying some residual, ceremonial functions of the king ( basileus ), e. g. the archon basileus in Athens.

Initially intimidated, he asks for time to reflect before answering and is given a stay of one day.

Initially, it was " Thürer ," meaning doormaker, which is " ajtós " in Hungarian ( from " ajtó ", meaning door ).

Initially used as an anticonvulsant, sodium valproate has become a commonly prescribed treatment, and is effective in treating manic episodes.

Initially you think it is your own train accelerating, but then notice with surprise that you feel no force.

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, Dylan used a Scheme-like prefix syntax, which is based on s-expressions:

Initially the law was formulated as pV < sub > m </ sub > = R ( T < sub > C </ sub > + 267 ) ( with temperature expressed in degrees Celsius ), where R is the gas constant.

Initially positive and negative " electrical charge " is distributed amongst the vertices so that the total is positive.

Initially the RTL description in VHDL or Verilog is simulated by creating test benches to simulate the system and observe results.

Initially Sorel had officially been a revisionist of Marxism, but by 1910 announced his abandonment of socialist literature and claimed in 1914, using an aphorism of Benedetto Croce that " socialism is dead " because of the " decomposition of Marxism ".

Initially, the server is in pre-game phase ; in this phase, clients can connect and game configuration parameters can be changed.

Initially, the waste valve is open, and the delivery valve is closed.

Initially, interpreted languages were compiled line-by-line ; that is, each line was compiled as it was about to be executed, and if a loop or subroutine caused certain lines to be executed multiple times, they would be recompiled every time.

Initially, Torvalds wanted to call the kernel he developed Freax ( a combination of " free ", " freak ", and the letter X to indicate that it is a Unix-like system ), but his friend Ari Lemmke, who administered the FTP server where the kernel was first hosted for downloading, named Torvalds ' directory linux.

Initially Bryce resists helping track down the attacker, seeing it as harmless experimentation, even though an innocent man is framed for the crime ( which is punishable by death ).

Initially it is impossible to find any mention of specific bugs on Microsoft's website, but later he notices that Microsoft has instated a system similar to the Debian one, though sugar-coated so as to not ruin the vision demanded by its customers.

Initially, the effect of friction is ignored.

Initially nitric oxide is oxidized again to yield nitrogen dioxide: This gas is then readily absorbed by the water, yielding the desired product ( nitric acid, albeit in a dilute form ), while reducing a portion of it back to nitric oxide:

This is obtained as follows: Initially, the only matching clause-head for the query is the first one, so proving the query is equivalent to proving the body of that clause with the appropriate variable bindings in place, i. e., the conjunction.