Sentence examples for initially authorities from inspiring English sources

Initially, authorities called her death an accident.

Initially, authorities hoped to intervene as little as possible, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said.

Initially, authorities said Scott tried to overpower a police officer, forcing the officer to fatally shoot him.

Initially, authorities said he had come to the ER on Friday, but now they say he arrived after 10 p.m. Thursday.

Initially, authorities around Acapulco gave preference to clean up tourist areas, which resulted in the scenic highway from the hotels to the airport being quickly fixed.

Initially, authorities said it was transferred to the L.A. Fire Department by the California Highway Patrol, which in the early days of cellphones handled all mobile emergency calls because they came from the road.

Initially, the authorities claimed that Kazemi had suffered "a stroke" and an "accidental fall".

Initially, the authorities even insisted they were conducting a public health investigation, not a criminal inquiry.

Initially some authorities continued to reject Bogota Sunangel, but DNA analysis confirms that, indeed, it is a valid species.

Initially, the authorities called for volunteers to make up the 100,000 heads of household the resettlement plan called for.

Education experts say that zero-tolerance policies initially allowed authorities more leeway in punishing students, but were applied in a discriminatory fashion.