Sentence examples for was at first called from inspiring English sources

THE new capital of Kazakhstan was at first called Akmola, the "white tomb".

It was at first called Malcolmpeth, named for a governor of the British East India Company.

The land for what was at first called the New York Navy Yard was bought in 1801.

In show business, where writers, disc jockeys and publicity agents conjured all manner of nicknames for performers, Mr. Como was at first called "Mr. Jukebox".

The buildings stood side by side until 1967, when they came down for what was at first called the U.S. Steel Building but is now known as 1 Liberty Plaza.

It was founded in 1668 as the first Hudson's Bay Company post by the Médart Chouart, sieur de Groseilliers; it was at first called Fort-Charles (or possibly Rupert House) and was the first European settlement in northern Canada.

Interpretation is a word that "properly speaking derived from inter-patrai" or entering into the "'fathers' as the gods were at first called" (Vico, p. 405).

Then they began missing the days of the fathers and sons, because suddenly their customers were beefy young men who had gathered themselves into what were at first called "popular organizations," then gangs.

But the White House's strategy was confused — at first, calling for a "clean" vote on the debt ceiling, but soon backing off that position without a clear set of objectives to replace it.

Melvin McCray, who lives with his wife, Jan, at No. 3 Agate Court, says he has found building records indicating that construction began in 1888 with houses on what was at first simply called "private street".

It was, otherwise, an era theatrically dominated by opera of various kinds, so that there was at first little call for music in relation to spoken drama.