The American Federation of Labor first endorsed a presidential candidate in 1908, when Bryan made his third run.
Britain had at first endorsed Mussolini and the cult of ducismo.
Austria's own accession he first endorsed, then passionately resisted (leading the "No" forces in the 1994 referendum), then accepted.
Instead, the Clinton administration first endorsed, then backed away from, an unusually bold O.A.S. judgment that the election was flawed.
Since dropping out of the presidential race, Perry first endorsed Texas senator Ted Cruz on the eve of the Iowa caucuses.
Kirchner first endorsed, then renounced, the idea that Nisman committed suicide, and her approval ratings have dropped into the mid-twenties.
And yet the diversity exception to anti-discrimination rules rests on a remarkably shaky legal foundation.Diversity was first endorsed by the Supreme Court in its 1978 Bakke decision.
But most other members previously set Mr Assad's departure as a precondition for talks—a posture that Western governments at first endorsed but latterly dropped.
The company announced an increase in the maximum LTIP from 300% to 500% in February, less than a year after its pay policy was first endorsed by shareholders.
The pilots of Comair, which is a commuter carrier of Delta Air Lines, voted down two previous proposals, but this one is the first endorsed by their union, the Air Line Pilots Association.
