Initially the abuse was verbal, with obscenities and racial epithets.

Initially designed to identify the 0. 5 % of students from each academic year with the highest verbal, mathematical and spatial ability ( as determined by two rounds of tests ), the programme has now been expanded to 1 % of the students from each academic year.

Initially an outcry method of trading ( a method of trading that uses verbal bids and offers in the trading pits ) in shares was adopted which was replaced with the automated trading system ( a computerized system for matching orders in securities ) commonly called “ ISE-CTS ” in 1997.

Initially someone who struggles in the face of danger, Mickey nevertheless acts as an earth based ally to the Doctor and Rose.

Initially, Anderson was among the most conservative members of the Republican caucus.

Initially, Habyarimana abolished the quota system, winning him favour among Tutsi.

Initially, the favourite among Red Tories was Flora MacDonald ; however she did worse than expected while Clark placed a surprising third in a field of eleven on the first ballot of convention delegates, behind only Claude Wagner and Brian Mulroney.

Initially, the dragon was benevolent, wise and just but the Buddhists introduced the concept of malevolent influence among some dragons.

Initially perceived as food men shared while gaming and drinking at night, the sandwich slowly began appearing in polite society as a late-night meal among the aristocracy.

Initially, he tried to compete with the new medium, introducing gimmicks such as 3-D films, which soon lost their appeal among moviegoers.

Initially, support for the United States was high, but by the end of the Bush administration, after seven years of war, anti-Americanism was high and criticism of the Bush Doctrine was widespread ; nonetheless the doctrine still had support among some United States political leaders.

Initially planned as a once-off, the LiveDVD was updated to the latest package versions in 2011 due to its popularity among new users.

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, neither Lenin nor his ideas had widespread support, even among Bolsheviks.

Initially, it was a wholly owned subsidiary of the JNR Settlement Corporation ( JNRSC ), a special company created to hold the assets of the former JNR while they were shuffled among the new JR companies.

Initially only patricians were eligible to become magistrates and this, among other plebeian complaints was a source of discontent for plebeians.

Initially popular with military officers, the Deringer became widely popular among civilians who wished to own a small and easily concealable pistol for self defense.

Initially he had intended to go to Yale but was encouraged by William Rainey Harper, president of the University of Chicago, among others, to enter the Baptist-oriented Brown University instead.

Initially, he won favor among both Hutu and Tutsi groups given his administration ’ s reluctance to implement policies that catered to his primarily Hutu supporters.

Initially it attracted a wide following among Shi ’ a clergy.

Initially, Sheffield FC games were played among club members themselves and took the format of " Married v Singles " or " Professionals v the Rest ".

Initially, criticism of Maus showed a resistance to including comics in literary discourse, as when the New York Times " praised " the book by saying, " Art Spiegelman doesn't draw comic books ", but after its Pulitzer Prize win, it gradually won greater acceptance and interest among academics.

Initially, the streltsy were recruited from among the free tradespeople and from the rural population.

Initially built in a gothic style, it was later repaired and rebuilt featuring, among others, a baroque altar piece and paintings, a rococo pulpit, and 18th c. organ and bell tower.

Initially, it was a favorite name among the Greeks but it flourished in all of Europe after the First Crusade.

Initially wanting to make a film that was " intimate and small-scale " as he started writing, the script " kept blossoming " and the resulting film was the ensemble piece Magnolia ( 1999 ), which tells the story of the peculiar interaction among the lives of several individuals in the San Fernando Valley, California.

Initially there have been three Faculties-Workers, Medicine and Humanities with 1, 390 students among them.

Initially, spaniels in England were divided among land spaniels and water spaniels.

Initially it could find no lesbian lawyers who were willing or able to be openly associated with a gay activist organization.

Initially, upon news that Ceauşescu had been appointed general secretary, he considered renouncing his political career and focus on an office at the University, before being persuaded by Emil Bodnăraş to remain an activist.

Initially conceived of as a South African version of Greenpeace, the group began by playing a radical, anti-apartheid, activist role.

Initially presented as good-natured but rather vacuous, Josh develops a social conscience due to his relationship with activist Lily, and helps her with various causes.

Initially confronted by police for their unlicensed use of public land, the initial group of eight men and women had the benefit of a forceful voice in the person of homeless activist Jack Tafari, and the early support of a few local politicians and associated coverage in the local media.

Initially in the production, the ethnic groups were not solidly established.

Initially however, these groups were small and conducted little active raiding into Nicaragua.

Initially concentrated mainly in big cities like New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington, DC, and on the West Coast, radical feminist groups spread across the country rapidly from 1968 to 1972.

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 the internees were housed, with different paramilitary groups separated from each other, in Nissen huts at a disused RAF airfield that became the Long Kesh Detention Centre.

Initially ordered to take his command to the Rhineland for rest and reinforcements, Chill disregarded the order and moved his forces to the Albert Canal, linking up with the 719th ; he also had ' reception centres ' set up at the bridges crossing the Albert Canal, where small groups of retreating troops were picked up and turned into ' ad hoc ' units.

Initially, ten regional reliability councils were created by groups of interconnected power systems, which collectively covered the entire footprints of the major North American interconnections, and NERC was then formed as a more formalized successor to NAPSIC to spearhead reliability efforts and assist the regional councils by developing common operating policies and procedures as well as training resources and requirements.

Initially, some Hmong groups staged attacks against Pathet Lao and Vietnamese troops while others remained in hiding to avoid military retaliation and persecution.

Initially, the NBA was planning to expand by three teams, with one franchise going to Florida ; however, when both Miami, and Orlando ownership groups made successful pitches, the expansion committee decided to expand by four teams, allowing both to have a franchise.

Initially, these groups enjoyed an economy based upon hunting and scavenging but as time passed production of weapons and pottery became more advanced.

Initially, Scouting groups in the major cities formed councils.

Initially called Boeing North American, these groups were integrated with Boeing's Defense division.

Initially the occupation forces try reprisal tactics, executing groups of civilians following every Wolverine attack, in hopes of intimidating the local population and compelling the Wolverines to surrender or desist from further attacks.

Initially introduced by Jacques Tits as a means to understand the structure of exceptional groups of Lie type, the theory has also been used to study the geometry and topology of homogeneous spaces of p-adic Lie groups and their discrete subgroups of symmetries, in the same way that trees have been used to study free groups.

Initially rooted in Paganism, various Christian groups have adopted practices to repel such forces, as based on their doctrine of Christian demonology.

Initially, opposition to the removal of the vendors came not only from the vendors themselves, but also from some neighborhood groups and local businesses who feared their removal would hurt tourism.

Initially annexed by Poland in a series of wars between 1918 and 1921 ( primarily the Polish-Soviet War ), these territories had mixed urban national populations with Poles and Ukrainians being the most numerous ethnic groups, with significant minorities of Belarusians and Jews.

Initially, various Islamic groups were implicated in the bombings, including the Jemaah Islamiyah, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, and the Moro National Liberation Front.

Initially, groups work to solve problems that are unrelated to the problems in their actual school environment.

Initially the 49th Air Division functioned as the intermediate-level command authority for USAFE's wings in the UK, no operational combat groups were attached.

Initially in a conveyor belt sushi restaurant, all customers were seated to face the conveyor belt, but this was not popular with groups.