Between 1961 and 1984, Plantard contrived a mythical pedigree for the Priory of Sion claiming that it was the offshoot of a real Roman Catholic religious order housed in the Abbey of Our Lady of Mount Zion, which had been founded in the Kingdom of Jerusalem during the First Crusade in 1099 and later absorbed by the Jesuits in 1617.
It's complicated: BAPS is the offshoot of a Hindu sampraday, or tradition, that traces its routes to Gujarat in the first half of the 19th century, and the life and teachings of its founding guru, Swaminarayan.
Stellina is the offshoot of Sorella, the slender, dimly lighted northern Italian restaurant next door.
"Degrassi" is the offshoot of a dramatic Canadian TV franchise reaching back to 1979.
The whole project feels airless and inbred, and rumor has it that the inbreeding was the offshoot of an in-joke; for Shrek versus Farquaad, we can apparently read Jeffrey Katzenberg versus his former boss Michael Eisner.
Every other station is pumping out programming based on maddening gender stereotypes, putting it out into the collective mind of a populace that accepts the prejudice as if it is normal, as if it is perhaps the offshoot of innate genetic differences between men and women.
Genetic analysis indicates it is the earliest offshoot from the ancestors of other quolls.
It's the liquid offshoot of molecular gastronomy, the avant-garde fusion of technology and cuisine.
Texas child-protection authorities said that sexual exploitation of underage girls was the motive for the April 3 raid on the compound, the Yearning for Zion ranch, operated by the sect, whose full name is the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; it is an offshoot of Mormonism but no longer has any link to the mainstream Mormon church.
Run by the brothers Nicholas and Joseph Mrnarevic, it is an offshoot of the Buon Gusto in Closter, N.J., opened 20 years ago by their parents, Elvira and Paul Mrnarevic.
