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 Frisbee included many of Norman's songs, but EMI, who owns most of Norman's songs, did not grant release to the filmmaker.

Originally part of a Mexican land grant deeded to John Sutter, the Rancho Del Paso grant was negotiated from the Mexican governor by John Sutter on August 10, 1843.

Originally, Winckelmann planned to stay in Italy only two years with the help of the grant from Dresden, but the outbreak of the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ) changed his plans.

Originally, the Emperor alone could grant statehood, but in 1653, several restrictions on the Emperor's power were introduced.

Originally established as a grant, the Dayne Ogilvie Prize was founded in memory of the late Dayne Ogilvie by close personal friend, Robin Pacific.

Originally built as part of the Magellanic Clouds-A Thorough Study grant from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2000.

Originally part of the land grant to Robert Townson ( 1763-1827 ), the land was acquired in 1830 by John Connell, who left it to his grandsons J. C. and E. P.

Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult development, aging, and the entire life span.

Originally considered a secondary branch route to Grand Junction, the entire route from Leadville to Grand Junction was upgraded to standard gauge in 1890, and the original narrow gauge route via Marshall Pass became a secondary route.

Originally, the language of the bill mentioned only " Hmong " people, intending to include the entire community.

Originally, the name belonged only to the area around the Bay of Balar, but in time, the name was applied to the entire land.

Originally, it ran along the entire western border of Wyoming, including Yellowstone National Park.

Originally, the county included the entire Big Horn Basin.

Originally, it covered the entire western half of Wisconsin's present area.

Originally Trumbull County consisted of the entire area of the Connecticut Western Reserve before being divided into smaller counties.

Originally, the city pursued construction of an auto mall on the entire Savi Ranch site.

Originally, this occupied the entire corner, around to what was the Chapel ( and is now the Library ).

Originally, Douglas County spread over the entire territory of the Big Bend of the Columbia River.

Originally, the institution aimed to become a multi-campus collegiate university comprising the entire East Midlands, and as such, the university swiftly acquired other campuses based in Bedford, Luton, Lincoln, the Scraptoft College of Education in east Leicester, Caythorpe and Milton Keynes.

Originally his plan was to have the entire novel occur over the course of one day, similar to the famous modernist novel by James Joyce, Ulysses.

Originally, paddlers or even an entire team falling into the water could receive no assistance from the onlookers as their misfortune was considered to be the will of the Dragon Deity which could not be interfered with.

Originally, the entire length of the highway featured stylized light standards with the letters ER ( for Elizabeth Regina, Latin for " Queen Elizabeth ") on them.

Originally published in Venice, in 1539, it was reprinted throughout Europe for many years after, becoming the most often reprinted madrigal book of the entire era.

Originally comprising a territory of 2. 5 km² in Xiamen City, it was expanded to 131 km² in 1984, covering the entire Xiamen Island, which comprises Huli District and Siming District excluding Gulangyu.

Originally a shortstop, he was quickly moved to second base and made his Major League debut on July 7, 1956 ; he played for the Pirates his entire career.

Originally built to house the entire Public Service for the Union of South Africa, it was then the largest building in the country and possibly the largest building work undertaken in the Southern Hemisphere at that time.

Originally, Barra Head only referred to the southernmost headland of Berneray but is now a common name for the entire island.

Originally the tower was meant to be the centerpiece of an entire Goldman Sachs campus at Exchange Place, which was to include a training center, a university, and a large hotel complex.

Originally Schaffer had planned to have the entire record be a concept album on the " Something Wicked " storyline, but because some songs unrelated to the concept, had already been written following The Dark Saga, the band decided to only have the last three tracks be connected to the storyline.

Originally, the KCRC expected the West Rail to have a daily ridership figure of 300, 000 passengers, but poor onward connections between stations and the areas they serve ( only access to 30 % of the population of the entire Yuen Long and Tuen Mun districts ) meant that the number of commuters choosing to use the West Rail Line remained far short of the goal after opening ( only 100, 000 passengers by May 2004 ).

Originally, the entire first floor was probably a single large room: in the 17th century large bedrooms were used socially, while the Victorians developed the modern notion of the bedroom as a private space.

Originally, the entire Beltway was simply I-495, and I-95 was planned to serve downtown Washington, D. C., from the south and north, intersecting the Beltway in Virginia and in Maryland.