The Britons initially catch the Romans off guard, but the Romans regroup and rout the Britons.

These developments initially caught RAF pilots by surprise.

Though his action initially caught world batsmen by surprise, he was soon exposed for lack of variety by the Australians.

Chanishvili explains that she and her colleagues initially catch phages in gunky places where the creatures are known to thrive: sewage water, for example.

Officials said it appeared that one car initially caught fire, and two others subsequently did as well.

Wide receiver Marques Colston initially caught the ball, but it squirted out of his arms as he fell to the ground, and was ruled an incompletion.

Having spent the majority of his life in sunny Queensland and growing up in tropical Bundaberg, the cold English climate initially caught Tallon off guard.

Sporadic experiments with numbered shirts took place in the 1920s but the idea did not initially catch on.

The attack of Alexios's division initially caught Bryennios's men off guard, but, being veteran troops, they soon recovered and once again began to push it back.

So even if a strain is very hard to initially catch, once infected, it spreads rapidly within a body.