Originally intended as assistants to the tribunes, they exercised certain police functions, were empowered to inflict fines and managed the plebeian and Roman games.

Originally designed to breach fortifications, they have evolved from nearly static installations intended to reduce a single obstacle to highly mobile weapons of great flexibility in which now reposes the greater portion of a modern army's offensive capabilities.

Originally intended for writing compilers for other languages, BCPL is no longer in common use.

Originally intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in the late 19th century by John Pemberton, Coca-Cola was bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coke to its dominance of the world soft-drink market throughout the 20th century.

Originally, Poe intended to call the journal The Penn, as it would have been based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Originally intended to be unkillable, SOE prevented a raid of several guilds on Rallos Zek server from potentially killing him, claiming the existence of a bug.

Originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the Earth ′ s equator to the North Pole ( at sea level ), its definition has been periodically refined to reflect growing knowledge of metrology.

Originally intended to serve as a family residence, it was at times vacated to host important guests, such as Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany in 1898, and Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia in 1936.

Originally intended for adults, the show evolved into primarily a children's entertainment in the late Victorian era.

Originally intended to replace the company's iconic 911, the 928 combined the power, poise, and handling of a sports car with the refinement, comfort, and equipment of a luxury sedan to create what some Porsche executives thought would be a vehicle with wider appeal than the compact, quirky and sometimes difficult 911.

Originally intended to be a concert venue until concerns were raised about increased traffic problems in the already congested streets, it was ruled that it should serve a gastronomic purpose only.

Originally, Enterprise had been intended to be refitted for orbital flight, which would have made it the second space shuttle to fly after Columbia.

Originally intended as an aid to travel over snow they are now mainly used recreationally in the sport of skiing.

Originally intended to be an outer-space variation on Lord of the Flies, the project at first was titled " Asteroid Ship Icarus " and had a multinational teenage crew journeying through space in a hollowed-out asteroid in search of the planet Iscandar.

Originally " born out of frustration ", according to the author, with programmers devising their own languages intended to be embedded into applications, Tcl gained acceptance on its own.

Originally Traveller was intended to be a system for playing generic space opera-themed science fiction adventures in much the same sense that Dungeons & Dragons was a system intended for generic fantasy adventures.

Originally intended as a B-side, " Fools Gold " quickly became the Roses ' most famous song and a performance of it on Top of the Pops cemented their national fame.

Originally, this layer was intended for point-to-point and point-to-multipoint media, characteristic of wide area media in the telephone system.

Originally intended to spend a year in Leipzig, Sullivan stayed there for three years.

Originally intended as the book or text weight for Zapf's Palatino font family, it was instead released as a separate family.

Originally, the Crusaders intended to relieve the beleaguered Christian stronghold of Acre, but Louis had been diverted to Tunis.

Originally intended for children, it has the form of a chocolate egg containing a small toy, often requiring assembly.

Originally intended as a temporary measure, it becomes a tourist attraction and an iconic symbol of the island.

Originally the western border of Missouri was intended to go due south to the Red River.

Originally a festival held to break up the long nights of winter and mark the end of Yule, the festival has become one celebrating the isles ' heritage and includes a procession of men dressed as Vikings and the burning of a replica longship.

Originally, Plant City was a large cotton center, but after changing its primary crop to strawberries it gained recognition as the winter strawberry capital of the world.

Originally named Côte Gelée ( Frozen Hills ) because of its hilly ridge area and the severe winter of 1784.

Originally intended as a winter utility vehicle to be used where motor vehicles cannot go, they appealed to hunters and workers transporting personnel and material across snow-covered land, frozen lakes and rivers.

Originally published in serial form during the winter of 1834 / 35, Le Père Goriot is widely considered Balzac's most important novel.

Originally cultivated in Southeast Asia, the winter melon is now widely grown in East Asia and South Asia as well.

Originally called the Winter Field & Reading Period, the two-month term was described by President Robert Devore Leigh in his 1928 Bennington College Prospectus as " a long winter recess giving students and faculty opportunity for travel, field work, and educational advantages of metropolitan life.

Originally administered by the Board of Education of the City of New York, it was conducted as a grammar school that taught common school subjects ( along with nautical classes ) during the winter term, and then held practical cruises during the summer term.

Originally built to function only in summer, the hotel was winterized in 1982 and now offers all of the regular ski resort fare during the winter months.

Originally the planetary temperatures in winter averaged between.

Originally the mine was only the underground block cave and an underground concentrator with an ' hotel '/ bunkhouse where the workers live when the Rio Blanco valley is impassable in the winter.

Lake Calhoun during the winter with the Minneapolis skyline in the background. Originally called by the Dakota " Mde Maka Ska ", which meant White Earth Lake, settlers later named it with the Dakota name " Medoza " or Loon Lake.

Originally the observance of the winter solstice, and the rebirth of the sun, it brought about many practices that remain in the Advent and Christmas celebrations today.

Originally they were planted for their deep shade which meant that beer cellar owners could cut ice from local rivers and lakes in winter to cool the Märzen Lager beer well into summer.

Originally known primarily for winter sports, Niseko has gradually gained a reputation as a centre for a wide variety of summer activities, including golf, tennis, fishing, horseback riding, sea kayaking, white water rafting, trekking, and bicycling.

Originally, ancient celebrations of Losar occurred solely on the winter solstice, and was only moved to coincide with the Chinese and Mongolian New Year by a leader of the Gelug school of Buddhism.

Originally scheduled for a winter holiday 1996 release, H2O worked diligently under Nintendo's direction to update Tetrisphere for the new console.

Originally it was only available in gay bars and saunas in Budapest but from 2005 winter on it became available in all Hungary.

Originally la Gouille Marion was boggy marshland which became flooded in the winter.