Sentence examples for as was once from inspiring English sources

These democratic changes were not engineered by Andrew Jackson and his followers, as was once believed.

Indeed, most settle into classes wearing pants and not stockings, as was once the rule.

Amazon never introduced a mail subscription service for video, as was once expected, but instead offers video on demand.

No longer do tax authorities automatically audit Koreans who buy foreign cars, as was once the case.

Christina Liew, a medical entomologist at the agency, said Aedes mosquitoes are not as fussy about where they will lay eggs as was once believed.

And they have threatened the funding not only of law schools, as was once the case, but of all parts of the university.

Another aspect of these plans is that Dr Griffin needs a vehicle that will operate as soon as possible after the shuttle has retired and far earlier than 2014, as was once planned.

Do divorced-but-happier parents make for happier children, as was once thought, or is even a contentious but intact marriage better for children, as the more recent line of thinking has it?

In fact, Umeng writes that "the term 'casual games' is becoming a misnomer as users are spending large blocks of time playing these games rather than dipping in and out as was once the case".

The reason: power itself may never have been as centrally located in imperial or national entities as was once imagined.

Now all that has been — as was once said — "modernized".