Sentence examples for were initially given from inspiring English sources

Other than the topic of the lecture, the students were initially given no information about the condition.

"We were initially given a year's funding from the local authority and the group took off because we could show it was changing lives," he says.

They were initially given a low dose of psilocybin to ensure they had no adverse reactions (none did) and then a higher dose a week later.

According to documents shared by the applicants with the Guardian, the refugees were initially given the chance to apply for asylum after landing in Greece on 9 October.

Committee members also criticised the PCC's claim, in its report, that the Guardian's revelations "did not quite live up to the dramatic billing they were initially given".

The Le Guennecs were initially given two-year suspended prison terms for possessing stolen goods by a court in March 2015.

Families whose sons or daughters died in accidents were initially given black-and-white television sets as compensation, but even that practice stopped in recent years, they said.

Only three were initially given out by Shanghai's Maritime Safety Administration to transfer fireworks onto container ships there, several fireworks and shipping executives said.

The PCC's inquiry into the Guardian's 2009 revelations about hacking at the title concluded there was no evidence to support the paper's claims and "did not quite live up to the dramatic billing they were initially given".

In November, a PCC report accepted Goodman and Mulcaire were the only culprits and added that "the Guardian's stories did not quite live up to the dramatic billing they were initially given".

Agencies were initially given less than a month to fulfill the demands, but Higdon relaxed that deadline after state officials protested that fulfilling the subpoenas would interfere with preparations for the 2018 fall elections.