Sentence examples for successful spin-off from inspiring English sources

This hugely successful spin-off from Blizzard's massively multiplayer online game was a massive success on the CCG market, with over 20 expansion sets and a lively competitive scene.

The show has been credited with reviving interest in ice skating around the UK and has had a successful spin-off tour.

In the past four years, my family took its sister title, the London Evening Standard, free, returned it to profit, and launched this newspaper's very successful spin-off, i, which comfortably outsells The Guardian.

Among the commercial stations, Bauer-owned Absolute Radio was up 9.3% to 2.2 million with an 18.8% rise for its most successful spin-off, Absolute 80s, up to 1.7 million.

In less than 18 months, cutting carbon has become as routine an instinct as recycling, and 10 10 has spawned successful spin-off campaigns such as Lighter Later, which champions the energy-saving benefits of shifting the clocks back by an hour.

But then Andrew Larpent is in many ways a surprising person: after 25 years in the army, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel and commanding an infantry battalion in the first Gulf war, he has gone on to lead for the past decade what is perhaps the most successful spin-off social enterprise in the public services.

The continued success of the Grand Theft Auto series led to successful spin-offs, including Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories in 2005, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories in 2006, and the 2D Grand Theft Auto Advance for the Game Boy Advance handheld game console.

The show was noted for the depth of its characters, several of whom were at the centre of successful spin-offs, including Rhoda (1974 78), Phyllis (1975 77), and Lou Grant (1977 82).

Successful spin-offs of Stevens-affiliated technology will be an important barometer of the institute's Technogenesis approach, which aims to teach engineers -- still the school's core student constituency -- what it takes to bring new products to market.

And Gary L. Crittenden, who was hired as chief financial officer in March after leading successful spin-offs at American Express, brings a viewpoint that Citigroup should be managed like a financial holding company: businesses with dimmer growth prospects and lower returns should be shed.

DC Thomson acquired Friends Reunited for £25m in August to boost its geneaology business Brightsolid, which runs Find My Past, but found the deal the subject of a competition investigation over fears that combining Find My Past with Genes Reunited, one of Friends Reunited's most successful spin-offs, would allow it to dominate the UK online genealogy market.