The phrase "as initially believed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a prior assumption or understanding that has since been reconsidered or proven incorrect.
Example: "The results of the experiment were different from what we had expected, as initially believed."
Alternatives: "as previously thought" or "as once assumed".
Eating fruit and vegetables may protect against some forms of cancer, although the World Cancer Report says it "does not appear to be as strongly protective against cancer as initially believed".
The acknowledgment came weeks after family members of the reporter, Ahmed Omed Khpulwak, had raised questions about his death, and after an independent investigation had found strong clues suggesting that Mr. Khpulwak was not killed by insurgents in the suicide attack as initially believed.
The second restriction may not be as important as initially believed.
But he did not shoot and wound an 18-year-old and 12-year-old as initially believed.
This suggests that the D. radiodurans RecA protein is not as unusual as initially believed, but rather is more analogous to polA and uvrA of D. radiodurans, which can be functionally replaced by E. coli orthologs [4], [90], [93], [120].
In other organs, such as kidney, lung and salivary gland, defects in heparan sulfation have mainly been shown to affect branching morphogenesis [47], although the mechanism may not be as straight-forward as initially believed [48].
But we've concluded that he was not making that linkage as strongly as we initially believed and have decided to change the ruling to Mostly True.
He conceded his family was "heartbroken" when he told them he wasn't coming home immediately, as they initially believed he would.
He conceded his family was "heartbroken" when he told them he wasn't coming home immediately, as they initially believed he would.
Mirren noted that she'd always believed women were "as capable and as energetic and as inspiring as men" but initially believed joining the feminism movement seemed "too political".
The safeguards have not been applied as widely as it was initially believed they would be, and there are considerable regional variations in their use.
