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 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 hired as an easel painter, in 1935 Alston became the first African American supervisor to work for the WPA's Federal Art Project in New York, which would also serve as his first mural work.

Originally, it was a summer program for disadvantaged youth, although it has grown into an AmeriCorps-sponsored non-profit organization with six regional offices that serve Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and North and South Dakota.

Originally, the Boy Scouts of America chartered the Manchester Council in 1912 to serve southern New Hampshire.

Originally established as Camp Crowder south of town in 1941 at the height of World War II, the post was to serve as an armored training center.

Originally created to serve high school students, the FFA has recently moved into middle schools where membership may begin as early as age 12, allowing members to become active earlier and stay active for longer.

Originally forested, Mont Ventoux was systematically stripped of trees from the 12th century onwards to serve the demands of the shipbuilders of the naval port of Toulon.

Originally an unnamed, minor character in Collodi's novel, he was transformed in the Disney version into a comical and wise partner who accompanies Pinocchio on his adventures, having been appointed by the Blue Fairy to serve as the official conscience for Pinocchio.

Originally created to serve airmen at Laughlin AFB just across the border, " Boy's Town " is an entertainment district that is located in an area south of Ciudad Acuna and contains a few after-hours bars and brothels, but is designated off-limits to U. S. military personnel.

Originally, the Chancellor was the chief officer in the daily management of the Duchy of Lancaster and the County Palatine of Lancaster ( a county palatine merged into the Crown in 1399 ), but that estate is now run by a deputy, leaving the Chancellor to serve in effect as an additional Minister without Portfolio.

Originally developed in the 1930s as a military base to allow cadets at the nearby United States Military Academy at West Point to learn aviation, it has over the years grown into the major passenger airport for the mid-Hudson region and continues to serve as a military airfield as well, currently housing the 105th Airlift Wing of the New York Air National Guard and Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 452 ( VMGR-452 ) of the United States Marine Corps Reserve.

Originally, the state constitution only said that in the event of the impeachment, removal from office, death, resignation or absence of the governor, or in the event of the governor being unfit to serve due to illness, " the powers and duties of the office shall devolve upon the lieutenant governor " for the remainder of the term or until the governor is able to return to office.

Originally a high school teacher, he went on to serve as a principal for six years.

Originally the site of the Military Headquarters of the Lord High Constable of Scotland, it would later serve as home to no fewer than three kings.

Originally built as Centennial Olympic Stadium in 1996 to serve as the centerpiece of the 1996 Summer Olympics, the stadium was converted into a baseball park to serve as the new home of the franchise.

Originally intended to serve patrons of the nearby Farmington Canal, it was rented by Sarah Porter in 1848 until her purchase on April 19, 1866.

Originally its used the name Liberal Democratic Party ( Liberal-Demokratische Partei ( LDP )), but in October, 1951 it was ordered to add the " D " for " Germany " ( Deutschland ) into its name in order to serve the all-German propaganda of that time of the SED.

Originally meant to be a one-off mocking the plague of promotional videos and adverts done by many British towns during the 1980s and 1990s, the characters proved so popular that they snowballed into a regular parody of small town and village councils run by the parochial minded with jarring grandiose aspirations for themselves and the people they are trying to serve ( for example, bidding to host the Olympic Games ).

Originally from the town of Asheville, Reynolds practiced law there and was elected to serve as solicitor ( prosecuting attorney ) for the area ( 1910 – 1914 ).

Originally named Texas State University for Negroes, the school was established to serve African Americans in Texas and offer them fields of study comparable to those available to white Texans.

Originally only the server could score ; if he lost the rally he would lose the right to serve.

Originally, the memorial was meant to serve as a welcome to the southwest neighborhoods of Minneapolis.

Originally, a roadway extended south from the Alaska Highway to serve the Cassiar mining district, eventually reaching Dease Lake and joining a road to Telegraph Creek ( sometimes referred to as Highway 51, but not signed as such ).