7 sentences with “initially”

Hernán Cortés fought his way to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, where he was initially welcomed by Emperor Moctezuma II.

The first generations of Muslims sought to conquer every culture and kingdom they encountered, though not initially in the name of conversion.

The Persian War is remembered in part because it pitted an underdog, Greece, against a great empire, Persia. It is remembered because the underdog won, at least initially.

Settlers from Canaan (present-day Jordan, Israel, Lebanon and parts of Syria) had been arriving in Egypt for generations, initially settling and assimilating into Egyptian society.

For example, one that determines resistance to tetracycline, initially found in streptococci, has recently appeared in six other bacterial species, including the one that causes venereal disease.

Although initially organised along tribal and clan lines, the Turks strove to emulate the more established Islamic empires that had preceded them by practising Islamic law (sharia) and sponsoring Islamic scholarship.

The Qur'an itself was written from the life of Muhammad (his revelations were delivered over a period of some twenty years, and were initially transmitted orally). The final version was completed in the years following his death.