Sentence examples for had initially endorsed from inspiring English sources

More damagingly, the Salafists' Nour party, which had initially endorsed the coup, thereby giving the anti-Morsi forces a cross-party veneer since it represents the biggest Islamist bloc after the Brothers, also denounced the new cabinet.

Mr. DeWine, a former United States senator from Ohio whose two terms in Washington overlapped with those of Mr. Santorum —  a senator from neighboring Pennsylvania — had initially endorsed Tim Pawlenty, a former Minnesota governor.

Several of the American union's board members who had initially endorsed the agreement changed their minds and urged pilots to vote against it after the United contract was announced.

Having initially endorsed the president, the supreme leader on Monday asked the guardian council to consider a review of the ballot within 10 days.

Both carnival and the Feast of Fools, in which social roles were reversed and wild behaviour briefly allowed free rein, had initially been endorsed by church and state as being useful safety valves; the endorsement was soon enough rescinded, but not before the people had taken over.

Penry, who had initially refused to endorse McInnis, declared his support over the weekend.

When Senator Sam Brownback, the Kansas Republican who recently ended his own bid for the presidential nomination and who had initially opposed the troop increase, endorsed Mr. McCain in Iowa on Wednesday, he said he had been wrong and Mr. McCain right.

The decision to endorse Mr. Powers came after a long and dispiriting process for party leaders, who had initially hoped to get one of the island's Republican elected officials to run for the seat.

Mr. Giuliani had initially proposed the elimination of the $2 hotel surcharge in January, with the Council reluctantly agreeing this month to endorse it, as part of an effort to reach a compromise on the entire tax-cut package.

He noted in the book that he had initially signed only a four-year contract, and that he was uncomfortable using his celebrity status to earn extra money endorsing products as other players did.

The companies had initially resisted the line because they deemed it too expensive, and the region's governments showed little willingness to cooperate in endorsing it.