A former adviser recalled, "I told Jerry, 'This is stupid!' He was already seen as kooky".
This suggests that Heatherwick was already seen as the project's likely designer.
A 2C cap on warming was already seen as hugely ambitious, both technically and politically.
Cornell was already seen as a leading candidate in the city's competition to start a new campus of applied sciences.
Before the conflict intensified, Mr. Barak was already seen as bound by his pledge to pull out the troops.
IN the 1830's, New York City was already seen as "a frisky young giantess, bustling with energy".
At the time of Péladan's death, in 1918, he was already seen as an absurd relic of a receding age.
And so did Ms. Gillibrand, who was already seen as a rising star among her colleagues at Davis Polk.
A typical trial would include 50 patients and anything bigger than 100 was already seen as remarkable.
Hewitt considers it the work of an ageing master "pushing himself ever more forward, even though his style was already seen as out of date".
As a teenager at St . LouisCountry Day School, he was already seen as so public-spirited that he was called "the senator," said Mr. Netchvolodoff, a classmate.
