And when investigators began interviewing possible victims, almost all initially denied being assaulted.
They all initially chose watchful waiting rather than treatment for their cancers.
Radios, jazz, Phyllis's independent streak and bobbed hair: all initially receive side-eye and wisecracks from the Midwestern mechanic.
I knew they were intimate, platonic friends, I knew Eileen had a child, that was all, initially.
The parades, the speeches, the day of rest, were all initially aimed at sending messages about the class struggle.
Micro-finance is an Asian creation after all, initially popularised in Bangladesh by Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus before being quickly taken up in India and elsewhere.
The irony about those early Stoppard plays is that, while we all initially applauded their cerebral content, it's their emotional substance that stands the test of time.
This study, by scientists at the National Institutes of Health, tracked 80,000 nurses, all initially free of the disease, for 24 years.
There was a long search for a director, after all – initially they'd been hoping to release in time for the Beijing Olympics.
He would complete another five novels, all initially published only in France apart from Afraid to Death, picked up by No Exit Press in the UK.
Six other alleged terrorist plots had been disrupted, all initially identified by Asio and then handed over to law enforcement, the agency said.
