Sentence examples for as initially perceived from inspiring English sources

The prognosis is often not as poor as initially perceived by physicians.

The Palestinians may have to understand, grudgingly though, that the Arab Spring is not so conducive to their struggle as initially perceived by them.

Further analysis of the unpublished data suggested that the mutant virus is not as lethal as the wild type and that the mutant was not so readily air transmissible as initially perceived.

The story of Robert Chambers has been accepted over the years less as a crisis of unfortunate circumstances and the excesses of privilege, as it was initially perceived, and more as a simple case of a bad seed.

Ownership by the team was initially perceived as a barrier, but as the interviews progressed, many participants became more positive in their views that an engaged team that was willing to shape and lead pathway implementation could work cooperatively to overcome known barriers.

Tobacco and chocolate were initially perceived as either poisonous or medicinal, as were tomatoes, a member of the nightshade family.

Colangelo was initially perceived as giving Showalter a lukewarm endorsement to continue as manager, but yesterday he said: "Buck and I are fine.

In the curious lingo of modern jazz, the opposite of cool isn't "hot," but "hard" -- as in hard bop, a late 1950's permutation of be-bop whose emotional urgency was initially perceived as a reaction to cool's cerebral tendencies.

Mr. Negroponte's delayed nomination was initially perceived as a sign of the Bush administration's disdain for the United Nations.

And the general, initially perceived as a hawk, surprised his detractors by reaching out to India's prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, at the Agra summit last July.

The burgeoning women's movement became uneasy; what feminists had initially perceived as empowering was beginning to look very much like the opposite.