Sentence examples for initially believing from inspiring English sources

A murder inquiry began, with detectives initially believing the death was the result of a botched burglary.

Jagr was credited with his league-leading 36th goal after initially believing he was victimized on a magnificent glove save by Scott Fankhouser.

After initially believing the device to be a "bomb", Air France confirmed it was a fake and someone had played a dangerous hoax.

Ashley Crivici said he swerved to avoid Hall about 20 minutes before his death after initially believing he had seen a deer.

But in its statements to The Times, Bayer also said that some customers still wanted the old medicine, initially believing -- incorrectly, it turned out -- that heating the concentrate could leave it less effective and possibly dangerous.

Last spring, city officials underestimated how high the state would raise the test standards, initially believing that about 22,800 students would fail -- already more than double the number that failed in 2009.

Police initially believed Menson set light to himself.

They initially believed he would return in about a month.

But of course they don't initially believe him.

Look at the opposite of what you initially believe.

Sometimes courage is about sitting down and listening to what you may not initially believe.