Sentence examples for had initially predicted from inspiring English sources

Interestingly, both sets of voters remembered themselves as having been just as happy — or sad — as they had initially predicted they would be in November.

April's handlers had initially predicted that the birth would come between mid-January and mid-February, but then the pregnancy stretched on.

Around the anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon spill, for example, some noted that the environmental impact of the "disaster" was looking less catastrophic than people had initially predicted.

That was 23percentt higher than the same period a year ago, but far lower than the $210 to $240 million the company had initially predicted and had built itself up to accommodate.

Bo's conviction for bribery, corruption and power abuses was a foregone conclusion, but he refused to go quietly and his cocksure performance in last month's five-day trial brought a harsher punishment than most analysts had initially predicted.

Chuck Watson, a disaster modeler for Enki Research in Savannah, Ga., had initially predicted total damages as high as $150 billion to $200 billion, which would have made Irma the costliest storm in United States history.

And even as publishers and bookstores have proven more durable than tech pundits may have initially predicted, It's become increasingly easy to paint Amazon as the bad guy, or even the bully, in its periodic disputes.

At the same time, the monetary fund also predicted stronger growth than it had initially forecast for 2010.

"The central outlook for the economy, and prices, have worsened more than had initially been predicted," said Masaaki Shirakawa, the governor of the Bank of Japan.

Because of the lack of consensus among the competing groups, the reform process was difficult, time-consuming and used more resources than had initially been predicted.

He cited a 1999 Cornell University study that showed that the Canal Corridor Initiative, as the previous effort was called, had so far funneled $400 million in federal loans and grants to communities along the 524-mile waterway, while generating an equal amount of private investment and creating twice as many jobs as had been initially predicted.