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Whether the coup was successful was initially unclear.

The fate of the embassy staff was initially unclear.

But it was initially unclear whether Mr. Mueller would win the support of the White House.

It was initially unclear, to viewers, whether Volquez knew; he didn't, it turned out, on orders from his family.

It was initially unclear what Brigadier General Omar Hassam Ahmad al-Bashir and his fellow-conspirators had in mind.

It was initially unclear whether Alloush was killed in a Russian or Syrian airstrike, but rebel sources indicated that the attack was Russian in origin.

The tone is unmistakably one of absence and regret, though precisely what is lost is initially unclear.

Details were initially unclear about who hacked the computers and which information was accessed at the DCCC, which raises money and provides other assistance for Democratic House candidates.

The 10 chapters into which the novel is evenly divided have oblique titles ("Dandelion Clock," "Heidi's Grandfather," "Whispering Hope") whose import is initially unclear.

It's initially unclear where we are — the Green Zone in Baghdad, a hotel room in Washington — but the depressing story that Mr. Abbas tells of his arrest and what happened next largely brings us into Abu Ghraib.

In person, Ms. Brown fairly quakes with energy -- her cappuccino cup rattles against the saucer when she puts it down -- and whether that anxious voltage comes from caffeine, nicotine (Ms. Brown is a smoker) or some internal source is initially unclear.