The phrase "but instead initially" is not correct and may cause confusion in written English.
It is typically used when contrasting two ideas, but the combination of "instead" and "initially" is contradictory.
Example: "I thought I would go for a run, but instead initially decided to stay home."
Alternatives: "but rather at first" or "but instead at the beginning."
Maybe it is because too many leaders still utilize conventional change management approaches such as "cascading," which do not engage large numbers of people but instead focus initially on a relatively small number of key players located at the top of the organization.
Instead, initially at least, it couldn't approach either one of them.
But when his father advised him at 17 that the film industry was too precarious a platform for his ambitions, Norman turned to journalism instead, initially hoping to become a foreign correspondent for the Daily Express.
In general, we expect to have a decrease in the velocity when density grows; the flow, instead, initially grows, since it is also directly proportional to the density, until a certain threshold value is reached (also called critical density), then it decreases.
Microsoft never formally commented on Cubitt's allegations and instead initially stated the iLoo was an April's fool joke.
β-HCH lacks the 1,2-biaxial HCl pair required by the reaction mechanism of LinA, and is instead initially metabolized by LinB (Trantirek et al. 2001).
I felt this was a natural development in my work, but instead it was initially seen as a rupture.
She said she had earned a teaching degree at her father's insistence but instead had become a singer, initially in a trio with her first husband and later as a soloist in a small club in Havana.
It's a normal tattoo in the sense that you still inject ink into your skin with a needle, but, instead of drawing a pattern initially, you fill an area with ink — say, five inches square — and then draw an image later.
Lenkov noted that the producers did not have reservations as he initially though, but instead embraced the idea, as it would empower women in the remake by including them as main characters and not just victims or other minor characters.
