Sentence examples for formerly thought that from inspiring English sources

It was formerly thought that the Olmec worshiped only one god, a rain deity depicted as a were-jaguar, but study has shown that there were at least 10 distinct gods represented in Olmec art.

Thus, it was formerly thought that in the iron group and the lanthanoid group ions of the crystal were bound together solely by their electrostatic attraction, the magnetic electrons being completely localized on the transition ion.

It was formerly thought that people with Birt Hogg Dubé syndrome were at higher risk for colorectal polyps and neoplasms, but this has been disproven.

It was formerly thought that the dust was left over from the formation of the cluster, but at the age of about 100 million years generally accepted for the cluster, almost all the dust originally present would have been dispersed by radiation pressure.

The ecumenical movement of the 20th century, bolstered by modern biblical scholarship, led some of the Christian churches e.g., the Roman Catholic and Lutheran churches to realize that they are not so far apart in their understanding of the Eucharist as sacrifice as was formerly thought and that they hold many elements of belief in common.

To add even more spice to gull-watching, scientists are officially recognising new species that were formerly thought of as races of the herring gull, so that keen birders can search for Caspian and yellow-legged gulls among the milling flocks.

These organisms were formerly thought to be ancient eukaryotes that diverged before introns originated, or at least became common.

It was long believed that Ichthyornis had teeth, like Hesperornis, but it is now thought that the toothed jaws formerly thought to belong to Ichthyornis were really those of a small mosasaur, a marine reptile.

Recent discoveries in Mongolia of oviraptorids sitting in birdlike positions on nests of eggs formerly thought to belong to Protoceratops reveal that the parentage was misplaced and that oviraptorids, like their bird relatives, apparently tended their young.

This means that what was formerly thought of as a philosophical problem may now dissolve "and this simply means that the philosophical problems should completely disappear" (PI 133).

The writer discusses talking out loud which he formerly thought was such a distressing symptom that he went to a rest home when he started doing it.