The phrase "act initially" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the first steps or actions taken in a process or situation.
Example: "To address the issue, we need to act initially by gathering all relevant data before making any decisions."
Alternatives: "take initial action" or "respond at first".
He notes the examples of some red states that turned down the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, initially fully paid for by federal dollars (100 percent for the first three years, phasing down to 90 percent by 2020), or infrastructure spending and extended unemployment benefits under the Recovery Act.
France chose to act, initially with air power and special forces to try to stabilise the military situation on the ground.
Although the All Writs Act initially seemed like a useful tool in the Justice Department's fight for access to encrypted data, the two high-profile losses might keep the government from relying so heavily on the 227-year-old law in the future.
The 1968 Uniform Monday Holiday Act initially applied to Veterans Day as well, stipulating that it be observed on the fourth Monday of October.
The brutality of the act initially drove Lancaster and his adherents away from the centre of power, but the Battle of Bannockburn, in June 1314, returned the initiative.
The restrictions on free coinage laid out in the Coinage Act initially met little resistance from mining interests until the price of silver declined rapidly due to increased mining in the Western United States.
During the Early Middle Cretaceous times the Danubian microplate acted initially as a foreland unit strongly involved in the South Carpathians nappe stacking.
It consists of a reinforced concrete pre-cast layer that acts initially as a formwork connected in situ with another concrete layer using shear connectors.
The first layer is a precast ferrocement layer which acts initially as a formwork, while the second layer consists of bricks and mortar.
In some cases, the original group who developed the HIEC bid to the Department of Health might have acted initially as though they were dominant, but that changed once the HIEC came into being.
Accordingly, we propose on the basis of this and previously published studies that the blockade of CXCR2 signalling using AZ10397767 (i) acts initially to inhibit the CXC-chemokine-promoted activation of NF- κB and (ii) as a consequence of that action, will promote a secondary response, suppressing NF- κB-promoted regulation of CXCL8 and anti-apoptotic gene expression.
