Sentence examples for first regarded from inspiring English sources

As a foreigner, he was at first regarded by many Chileans with suspicion.

Planck first regarded the quantum as a bookkeeping device with no physical meaning.

Other German universities at first regarded the newcomer with great suspicion.

The "Late Show" invitation, issued in July, was at first regarded by news outlets as a prank.

Even the Blue Jays first regarded Bautista as a super-utility man when they acquired him in August 2008.

Although television was first regarded by many as "radio with pictures," public reaction to the arrival of TV was strikingly different from that afforded the advent of radio.

At first regarded as a mere exploiter of decadence, he can now be seen as gradually working beyond reportage and toward meaning.

Queensberry's accusations were at first regarded as the ravings of a madman, but received some credence when in the autumn of 1894 – Rosebery having meanwhile become prime minister – Drumlanrig shot himself.

Kevin Cody, editor and publisher of Easy Reader, a Hermosa Beach newspaper, said Wolfson was one of the founders of the sport of body-boarding, which was at first regarded as more like sitting on a sled than like skiing.

He thought for a moment and delivered his verdict: 'For visitors, Patagonia was first regarded as an obstacle, then it became a resource and it is now an escenario - a backdrop, scenery, a kind of theatre.' Not bad is it?

He has an entertaining passage in which he wearily points out that the question of how to improve governance and commercial performance was first regarded as urgent in 1958 when Hugh Gaitskell led the Co-operative independent commission.