"initially" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The sport was initially ridiculed as an effete, unmanly exhibition.
- His call last spring to return the fund to health by substantially increasing the amount that banks pay in premiums was initially ridiculed by both regulators and lawmakers.
- The show was initially ridiculed by many reviewers as the most abysmally lowbrow series in television history.
- Initially ridiculed by her male colleagues, she quickly earned their respect and won passage, in December 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- The Big Bang model was initially ridiculed by the scientific establishment.
- Chladni was initially ridiculed for his claims of an outer space origin for meteorites, but his writings sparked scientific curiosity that eventually led more researchers to support his theory.
- Adams was ridiculed initially for what many people considered a humiliating political comedown.
- His claims about a gold cartel and market suppression were initially ridiculed as conspiracy theories and discounted.
- Then, in the 1980s, two doctors who were initially ridiculed for proposing an outlandish theory proved that most ulcers are caused by bacteria and can be cured with antibiotics.
- Catastrophic deglaciation flooding has also been suggested related to glacial Lake Missoula in the Northwestern United States and although initially ridiculed is now accepted as the prevailing view.
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