Sentence examples for supposedly derived from from inspiring English sources

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

(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.

Supposedly derived from Greek poetic metres such as trochaic (long short) and iambic (short long), these modes brought about a prevailing triple metre in French music, while German poetry produced duple as well as triple metre.

(The name is supposedly derived from "My Life Online," although there's a certain inconsistency to the harvesting of initials. Is Sony taking the first letter of each word? Then it should be MLO. Is it taking two letters? Then it would be MyLiOn, which sounds like a stuffed animal).

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).

The three fleurs-de-lis of France supposedly derive from these (Neubecker, 225).