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He said no weapons had been removed from the cache recently, despite reports that some military trucks had initially got through.

Mr Rodford's wife, Mandy, said the couple had initially got into a lifeboat on the highest side of the grounded ship but it became stuck because of the angle of the boat.

Mr. Colson said that he had initially gotten hate mail from evangelicals because of that initiative, and that the Prison Fellowship had lost a million dollars in donations.

We would have seen some very different actors on screen if he had initially gotten his way.

Several early works on display reveal the influence of Max Ernst, from whom he may have initially gotten the idea of making box assemblages.

He put story writing on hold, too, having lost confidence in his fiction -- despite having once received an out-of-the-blue fan letter from Roth, who'd read one of his stories in the Paris Review, which he calls "one of the great moments of my writing life". Eventually, encouraged by the New Yorker's purchase of a story the magazine had initially rejected, he got going again.

The film's director Michel Hazanavicius said the award was "very special" as the film had initially faced difficulties getting financed.

And bit by bit, US forces, about which British commanders had initially been so dismissive, got better at counter-insurgency.

The United States had initially been confident in getting the resolution passed because it had the support of Burkina Faso as well as other African states not on the Council, like Liberia and Sierra Leone.

We had initially had some frustration getting into the Clinton campaign.

She had initially invoked him when Mr. Lazio got in the race, and then stopped trying to associate the two Congressional Republicans after her aides determined that it was showing no sign of traction.