Sentence examples for had initially dismissed from inspiring English sources

THE final stop of the preview day was Mater's Junkyard Jamboree, which Jake had initially dismissed as "a baby ride".

The government, which had initially dismissed the disease as an affliction of drug addicts and homosexuals, swung into action.

The Americans had initially dismissed Isis as nothing more than a symptom of infighting within the Taliban.

Ms. Livingston's response, which has gone viral on the Internet with almost 2 million views on YouTube alone, said she had initially dismissed the criticism but then decided to speak up to raise awareness about bullying behavior.

Rabin, who was defense minister when the intifada erupted in December 1987, had initially dismissed the uprising as riots instigated by Arafat from his headquarters in Tunis, and thus to be quickly crushed.

Richard Scarpelli, co-head of advanced planning at UBS, said he had initially dismissed the proposal as irrelevant given its unlikelihood of passage until he saw how angry it made people, including his wife, a certified public accountant.

And having initially dismissed the event as a small gathering of hard-line nerds, large multinational media corporations now openly court them, dispatching their most bankable celebrities.

Having initially dismissed Osborne's plans as empty electioneering, by the time the Tories had won an outright majority despite voters in almost every northern city showing them the finger, I had begun to think the powerhouse was an actual thing that might really happen.

Having been mobbed viciously by the rightwing US press and having initially dismissed them in the way they deserved, Lena Dunham is now forced to apologise for sentences in her memoir which may (or may not) be construed as describing instances of child abuse.

Mr. Saleh had initially reacted positively to the offer, before appearing to dismiss it on Friday.

This had initially puzzled me.