Hines reflects the distrust with which the system was initially received, before the success of Alf Ramsey's England gave it credibility.
All manner of convention -- presuming lack of bias, leaving the patriotism to the politicians and regarding institutions with suspicion -- has been battered by the runaway success of a news division that was initially received with up-the-sleeve snickering by its competitors, CNN and MSNBC.
For we must remember how this work was initially received.
The group was initially received peacefully, but after multiple requests that they return to the Philippines, violence broke out.
He was initially received by the government of Turkey and domiciled on the island of Prinkipo (now Büyükada).
As a collection of what were essentially country songs played fast, loud and jangly, the album was initially received as either a betrayal or a breakthrough.
This segregation by genre corresponds to the way Gainsborough's art was initially received: his portraits were in clamorous demand; his landscapes, which he cared passionately about, were ignored.
In 2011, the latter's party conference condemnation of free-market "predators" – some of the more sharkish characters in The Line of Beauty come to mind – was initially received on the right with bafflement and derision.
I have had many opportunities in the intervening years to observe similar disconnects between a TV commentator's cynical assumption of cynical motives and, in Bai's words, "how positively the speech was initially received" by the public.
The original G Flex's bendy body was initially received with excitement — but that faded a little when people had a look at the low-res screen and the sub-par hardware.
