Comey was initially struck by how long it took Bridgewater to make decisions, because of the ceaseless internal debates.
He was initially struck by the primitive frescoes on the walls of local Romanesque churches and then, at art school, he was exposed to the European avant-garde.
Deutsche Bank and Deutsche Post both insisted there was no pressure from Berlin to complete the deal, which was initially struck in early September, before the turmoil in financial markets.
Anderson says he was initially struck that Britannia's managers were very interested when a merger was proposed, but on reflection attributed this to the fact Britannia faced similar challenges to the Co-op's own financial services arm.
He sued the magazine, its editor Fiona Godlee and Deer in Texas, and although his case was initially struck out on technical grounds, he is appealing and continues to maintain that the scientific research he conducted was not fraudulent.
The first big announcement came on Tuesday, when the U.S. said that it had struck a tentative deal with China to expand a ban on tariffs for products specified by the Information Technology Agreement (I.T.A ., which was initially struck in 1997 and now includes dozens of countries as signatories.
Architects of the deal, which was initially struck through a meeting of executives on a golf course in Sun Valley, Idaho, said the joint venture would bring more resources to the production of high-quality entertainment and to the development of new digital means of dissemination.
Representative Connie Morella (R-MD), who proposed the bill, was initially struck by the scarcity of women in science and engineering--they make up less than 10% of the profession.
Traveling into "liberated" (i.e. rebel-controlled) Syria, I was initially struck by the appearance of normality.
A landmark volume almost by definition, Safranski's work, which devotes a great deal of attention to Nietzsche's passion for music, is initially striking less for what the author has to say than for what he has chosen to leave out.
