Sentence examples for offshoot to from inspiring English sources

The Alawites, a Shiite offshoot to which President Assad belongs, say they feel more threatened.

It is counting on its rebounding Maserati offshoot to increase sales revenues.

Tripoli is home to many members of Lebanon's small Alawite minority population, the same Shiite offshoot to which Mr. Assad belongs.

In May it summarily executed three members of the Alawite sect, a Shia offshoot to which the Assad family belongs, in Deir ez-Zor.

"We learned of a possible offshoot to over-meditation, or meditation out of balance, or the wrong guidance in meditation; I don't know the right word here," Mrs. Thorson said in an interview.

She was speaking of two recent massacres of Sunnis in the coastal homeland of the Alawites, the Shia offshoot to which President Bashar Assad and his loyalist forces belong.

Goldblatt is also good on the offshoots to the main event.

According to a report by Ewa Paszyc for the Center for Eastern Studies, Gazprom has used these offshoots to maintain control of distribution in the post-Soviet era.

At first glance the European Union directive on equality in employment, issued in 2000, seems pretty generous in the way it allows religious groups and their offshoots to practise discrimination and watch the behaviour of their staff.

It has given birth to a dizzying array of offshoots to fit every type of investor.

Its Syracuse-area employment has fallen by half, to 3,500, and there is no fertile field of air-conditioning offshoots to keep the economy humming today.