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 just wanting a single female singer to replace the high backing vocals originally provided by Martyn Ware, he says that he thought having two female vocalists / dancers would also add potential glamour to the band.

Originally this movement sought to replace the exclusive political power of the aristocracy with a more democratic system empowering urban areas and the middle and lower classes.

Originally used to track products in warehouses, QR codes were designed to replace traditional ( 1D bar codes ).

Originally, the D and QJ were to replace at three Q services.

Originally, they played in pink shirts with a black tie, which only occurred due to the wrong shirts being sent to them, the father of one of the players made the earliest shirts, but continual washing faded the colour so much that in 1903 the club sought to replace them.

Originally the division merely supplied the first-line Territorial divisions with drafts to replace losses through casualties.

* Erbsenmuster – " 44 dot " ( 1944 to 1945 )– Originally meant to replace all other SS camouflage patterns

Originally built in 1969 to replace the bland and bumpy Zeltweg Airfield circuit, the Österreichring track was known for being very fast, as every corner was a fast sweeper and were taken in no lower than 3rd gear in a 5-speed gearbox and 4th in a 6-speed gearbox, as well as noticeable changes in elevation during the course of a lap.

Originally announced in June of 2003, a new steel containment structure named the New Safe Confinement ( NSC ) would be built to replace the aging and hastily-built sarcophagus that currently protects reactor unit 4.

Originally it was intended to replace the Parian near Intramuros, where the Chinese were first confined.

Originally the Washington State Department of Transportation planned to replace the entire deck in 2010, but accelerated the project due to rapidly deteriorating roadway.

Originally, it was called " Maidenhead Junction ", but eventually it came to replace the Boyn Hill station as well as the original station on the Maidenhead Riverside.

Originally planned to be replace by UK hit The X Factor in 2013, the future of Indonesian Idol is now under discussion.

Originally, a new grass turf was to be installed following the 2006 season to replace the grass that has been beat up over the years from extensive use in baseball, soccer, and lacrosse.

Originally, Springfield's grand Union Station was constructed in 1926 by Boston and Albany Railroad to replace a smaller Union Station, which had been adorned in unique Egyptian-style architecture.

Originally, Robert Aldrich was to be the film's director, but Robert Mitchum, who had worked with Aldrich on the The Angry Hills ( 1959 ), had Sydney Pollack replace him.

Originally Douglas Trumbull was to do the special effects, but that was not to be so Jodorowsky hired Dan O ’ Bannon to replace him.

Originally, he was recruited by national Democrats who wanted to replace Congressman Martin L. Sweeney ( D-OH ), who had for eleven years held the seat representing the west side of Cleveland.

Originally called Highway 3, the A-30 was designed to replace Route 132 as the main artery linking the communities along the South Shore of the St. Lawrence River.