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Gladbach had initially urged the game to go ahead with an earlier kick‑off, although they later agreed to wait until the standard 7.45pm kick-off time.

In an interview, the businessman who leveled the accusations of extortion, Sergei V. Shmelyov, said that Mr. Urlashov had initially urged him not to bid for the city contract but that he had refused to back down.

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.

Many New Yorkers, urged on by influential cultural critics such as Lewis Mumford, had initially opposed and subsequently deplored the destruction of Penn Station as a wanton act of civic irresponsibility and cultural philistinism.

Nikita Khrushchev had initially supported North Vietnam out of "fraternal solidarity", but as the war escalated he had urged the North Vietnamese leadership to give up the quest of liberating South Vietnam.

Lynch had initially joined the Scouts in order to "put it behind" him, but continued at the urging of his father; he eventually summed up his biography as "Eagle Scout.

Demonstrators had initially planned to gather after a rally on Friday to demonstrate against the election, but energy dwindled as safety became a major concern and opposition members urged party members to express their views at the polls.

The following month he urged using RAAF Canberras from Butterworth to make pre-emptive strikes against Indonesian air bases, in retaliation for incursions into West Malaysia, but Britain, which had initially requested Australia's involvement, held back on action.

This had initially puzzled me.

Urging graduates to repair "the public conversation" and rescue society from "grim careerists and ideologues," the playwright Tony Kushner on Friday accepted the honorary degree that the City University of New York had initially withheld after a trustee accused him of being anti-Israel.

The ministry had initially declined to comment.