Sentence examples for it was split off from inspiring English sources

AbbVie was created last year when it was split off from Abbott Laboratories.

CBS Films is the company's attempt to get back in the movie business after it was split off from Viacom into a separate company.

Royal Mail, which handles parcel and letter deliveries and is now a private company after it was split off from the Post Office several years ago, said it expected the action to have little or no effect on the services it provides its customers.

Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War is a 1998 space combat simulation IBM PC compatible computer game developed by Volition, Inc. when it was split off from Parallax Software.

Following the release of Halo 3, Bungie announced it was splitting off from Microsoft and becoming an independent limited liability company.

Though Clara wants more from him, Paul can manage sexual passion only when it is split off from commitment; their affair ends after Paul and Dawes have a murderous fight, and Clara returns to her husband.

It was formed in 1968 from Kano province, and in 1991 its northeastern portion was split off to form Jigawa state.

Motorola Mobility was split off from Motorola in January 2011.

In America research was split off from investment banking in 2003, with painful effects.

In 1999, the new territory of Nunavut was split off from the Northwest Territories.

The agricultural division was split off and sold in the 1980s, later merging with Case.