Sentence examples for supposedly derived from inspiring English sources

In 1921 it was renamed Hackensack, supposedly derived from the Ackinchesacky, or Ackenack, one of the Delaware Indian peoples.

In the Middle Ages the pastoral staff of a bishop often had attached to it a small purple scarf known as the vexillum, supposedly derived from the labarum.

(The notion is distinct from that of a natural law i.e., a law of right or justice supposedly derived from nature).

In one of the government's exhibits in the case, a handwritten notation on one of PurchasePro's old financial statements reads, "Ripp letter killed these," next to revenue figures supposedly derived from marketing arrangements with AOL.

Told that a lot of conventional wisdom behind the doomsday scenario in the rest of the world supposedly derived from ancient Mayan texts, they politely replied that they were not aware of any such prediction or text.

The Indians team name itself is supposedly derived from Louis Sockalexis, a member of the Penobscot nation in Maine, who played for a different Cleveland team in the National League from 1897 to 1899.

The dish's name supposedly derives from the noises made when the ingredients are fried.

The name supposedly derives from the city of Troyes in France, site of one of the major medieval fairs.

His nickname, meaning "extoller of ladies," supposedly derives from his championship of the title Vrowe (lady) over Wip (woman) in a contest with a rival poet.

New Providence's name supposedly derives from a 17th-century governor's thanks to Divine Providence for surviving a shipwreck: the "New" was added later to avoid confusion with Old Providence, a pirate stronghold off British Honduras (now Belize).

This song style, named after the word for 'fate', supposedly derives from the homesick shanties of 16th-century Portuguese sailors: in its modern, more bohemian, urban incarnation it is a deliciously evocative mixture of lugubrious minor-key guitar rhythms and melodies with a distinctive Arabic weave.