Initially, the October 2010 SDSR outlined a reduction of the Regular British Army by 7, 000 to a trained strength of 95, 000 personnel by 2015.

Initially he trained for a career in music and became so proficient on the tuba that he won a musical scholarship to the New York Military Academy.

Initially paramedics were mainly trained internally, with experienced ambulance technicians often progressing to the role of paramedic.

Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s.

Initially there was much resistance to lawyers in colonial North America because of the role they had played in hierarchical England, but slowly the colonial governments started using the services of professionals trained in the Inns of Court in London, and by the end of the American Revolution there was a functional bar in each state.

Initially in the United States the legal professionals were trained and imported from England.

Initially, he was trained by Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, who had taken Gallant Fox to the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.

Initially David trained on his own, however later he found other people ( including his cousins ) who had similar desires and they began to train together.

Initially the wide obi was used ; as practitioners trained in kimono, only white and black obi were used.

Initially trained as an engineer, Moyer was introduced to the philosophy and practice of nonviolence by Quaker friends, and completed a degree in social work.

Initially, he trained as backup to the ISS Expedition 3 crew.

Initially trained in mathematics and the classics, he became a well-known phonetician of his time.

Initially newly-established bomber groups were trained at Pyote, then it was switched to training replacement aircrew members that were deployed to combat units overseas.

Initially he trained as an architect at Berwick before taking to the stage under the name Henry Travers.

Initially trained as a classical pianist, Bjørnstad discovered jazz at an early age and has embraced the emergence of " European jazz ".

Initially discovered, trained and managed by Joseph Tolley at Tolley's famous Rochdale Boxing Club, reference the Rochdale thunder bolt.

Initially the regiment was trained on the Valentine DD, until it was re-equipped with the M4A4 Sherman DD and Sherman Vc " Firefly " in April 1944.

Initially trained in Argentina, Maestro traveled to Berlin to develop a vocal repertoire of the works of Kurt Weill and Hans Eisler.

Initially, both King and Parliament attempted to make use of the existing Militia or Trained bands, but except for the London Trained Bands which Parliament could usually count upon as an important trained reserve, these pre-existing organisations were superseded by regiments raised and organised on the pattern of the Dutch or Swedish military system as used in the Thirty Years War on the Continent.

Initially, he trained to be a boxer and eventually sparred with greats such as Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, but he was always fascinated by wrestling.

Initially, physicians were trained alongside surgeons.

Initially trained as an electrical engineer, Merkel spent twelve years designing industrial and military systems.

Initially, black women were segregated, but in keeping with Army policies, integrating officer training, and with pressure from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ), by November 1942, they were being trained in integrated units.

Initially, Cigoli trained in Florence under the fervid mannerist Alessandro Allori.

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 the party of the Malaysian Chinese Association was pro-ROC and mainly consisted of Kuomintang members who joined as an alternative and were also in opposition to the Malayan Communist Party, supporting the Kuomintang in China by funding them with the intention of reclaiming the Chinese mainland from the communists.

Initially Wade's government had the support of a broad section of groups opposed to the socialist government, but gradually individual parties have disassociated themselves from the government and joined the opposition efforts led by PS.

Initially a " rancho carnavalesco ", then a Carnival's Block, and finally a samba school, the Deixa Falar was the first to Rio Carnival parade in the sound of an orchestra made up of percussion surdos, tambourines, and cuícas, who joined pandeiro and shakers.

Initially there was much confusion among republicans on the ground, Martin McGuinness for example, joined the Official IRA in 1970, unaware that there had been a split and only later joined the Provisionals.

Initially, a volunteer project, the library became its own department and joined the Dallas County Library System shortly after WWII.

Initially known as " Front des Petits Peuples " from 1946 to 1960, the group later took the designation " Front de Libération des Hauts plateaux " and joined, with the FLC, the " Front unifié pour la Libération des Races opprimées " ( FULRO ) at some point in the 1960s.

Initially it was developed by Alexey Nadezhin ( by whose name the system is named ) and later also by Sergey Kamnev, who joined the project.

Initially, this army was composed primarily of volunteers and Tsarist supporters but were later joined by the Cossacks ( including Don Kalmyks ), many of whom resisted the Bolshevik policy of de-Cossackization.

Initially the Catholic Church tolerated the Flagellants and individual monks and priests joined in the early movements.

Initially light cavalry companies formed by Polish Tatars ( the very word ulan came from Lithuanian Tartar surname that might have come from an honorific name for a young, skilled warrior known as oglan ) for one of the magantes, Sapieha, the uhlans joined the forces of Augustus der Starke, the king of Poland-Lithuania-Saxony, and in early 1740s 18th century the first uhlan ' pulks ' ( regiments )-known as uhlans-were formed for his son, king Augustus III.

Initially gains were made from the ranks of the reformist workers organisations and in late 1920 a left opposition from the PPS, led by Stanislaw Lancucki and Jerzy Czeszejko-Sochacki, joined giving the party representation in the Diet.

Initially, Browning joined the 4th Battalion, Grenadier Guards, which was training at Bovington Camp.

Initially working alone, he was later joined in the studio by ex-The Stairs frontman Edgar Summertyme, Lee Garnett and Neil Mavers.

Initially a member of the Free Soil Party, he joined the Republican Party shortly after its founding, and was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives ( 1852 ), and the Massachusetts Senate ( 1857 ).

Initially a member of the Labour Party, he joined the newly formed ACT New Zealand party under Roger Douglas in 1996.

Initially, in 1867, it joined the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway at Hyde Junction, running into Manchester London Road, but in 1875 a more direct route was built through Bredbury.

Initially, he joined the Swaraj Party, a group within the Indian National Congress, and became an ardent follower of Chittaranjan Das.

Initially, Reform BC, the Social Credit, the British Columbia Party, and the Family Coalition Party had joined under the " BC Unity " umbrella.

Initially involved with The Kids in the Hall film Brain Candy project, he left the troupe in the middle of the writing, dissatisfied with the internal strife and the quality of the script, and joined the NewsRadio cast instead.

Initially, ' TRIUMF ' stood for TRI-University Meson Facility, but after the University of Alberta joined the TRIUMF consortium, the acronym was dropped and is no longer used.

Initially an inside forward, Hunter was moulded by Leeds into a central defender who made the No. 6 shirt his own in 14 years with the club he joined at the age of 15, giving up a job as an electrical fitter in the process.

Initially a pseudo-rival to Samantha for Dave ( she always wore sunglasses ala Dave, shedding them only when she got married ), she was eventually accepted into the group and joined everyone at Havens University as a creative film major.