While Brasilia was initially hailed for its futuristic vision and scale, it later came under stinging criticism as a city without soul whose wide avenues were dangerous for pedestrians.
But some civil society groups that had initially hailed President Humala for focusing on early childhood now argued that the program was hobbled by operational challenges that threatened the long-term sustainability of the program.
But major technological advances require years to develop and put in place, and regularly turn out to have unanticipated side effects — consider the destruction of the atmosphere's ozone layer by the nontoxic, nonflammable chlorofluorocarbons initially hailed for replacing poisonous refrigerant gases.
Initially hailed for providing a platform where political dissidents could organize against oppressive regimes – Twitter played heavily in the first swell of the Arab Spring and 2009's aborted Iranian instability – the service has come under fire of late for…providing a platform where political dissidents (in this case actual Nazis) could organize right here in the United States.
The Serbs hailed him, initially, as a modern messiah.
The exchange was initially hailed as a victory for the administration, but it quickly became controversial.
But though he was initially hailed as a saviour for ending one-party rule, his time in office became blighted by corruption, political suppression and revelations of wild extravagance.
Afghanistan has been plunged into crisis about who will take over from Hamid Karzai next month, after fraud accusations stained an election initially hailed as a triumph for the country's fledgling democracy.
The election itself - the island's first such contest in five years since a coup against a democratically elected leader plunged the country into economic malaise and political isolation - was initially hailed as a "a victory for multilateral diplomacy" as southern African states welcomed Madagascar back into the democratic diplomatic fold.
Following five years of harsh Taliban rule, even the slightest improvement was initially hailed as a great leap forward for Afghan women, who had been largely closeted at home, with no access to education, jobs, even medical care in many instances.
