By her own admission, she first reacted to her diagnosis by using drugs herself.
Like Yeats, she first reacted with dismay: her son, after all, was a British soldier.
In fact, statehouse lawmakers cited in the article first reacted by mockingly donning C.B.C. (Corrupt Bastards Club) baseball caps.
As a student at Chicago and later at Cambridge, Mr. Samuelson had at first reacted negatively to Keynes.
The Russians at first reacted with skepticism but now tend to view Mr. Obama as somebody they can do business with.
Nevertheless, market regulators often eye them with suspicion: Spain's at first reacted to Gotham's report by investigating its publisher, not Gowex.
One aide has framed the speech he helped prepare last month when the president first reacted to Vice President Al Gore's concession.
Riefe's father, Stephen, said that he had worn his hair long at that age, and that, like his own father before him, he had at first reacted against the look on his son.
The White House, which has charged that Iran is secretly trying to develop fuel for nuclear weapons, at first reacted mildly to the announcement, saying Iran was "moving in the wrong direction".
Although reformers first reacted cautiously to the news of the prize, members of Parliament and the government spokesman, Abdullah Ramezanzadeh, welcomed Ms. Ebadi as she stepped off the plane.
What is most striking from this history is how fitful and accidental were the patterns of immigration, and how volatile the British attitudes, as they first reacted against new waves, and then came to terms with them.
