Sentence examples for was formerly applied from inspiring English sources

So numerous are the islands of the Aegean that the name Archipelago was formerly applied to the sea.

The name Chhattisgarh ("Thirty-Six Forts") was formerly applied to the territory of the Haihaya dynasty of Ratanpur, founded about 750 ce, and the plain long remained an isolated protected area.

The term was formerly applied to any object outside the solar system that had a diffuse appearance rather than a pointlike image, as in the case of a star.

But trade unionism is itself a phase of capitalism, inasmuch as it applies to labour as a commodity that principle of selling in the dearest market, and giving as little as possible for the price, which was formerly applied only to land, capital and merchandise.

Natural back-sizings were formerly applied to Axminster carpets, and Wilton and Brussels weft threads on their cops were soaked in sizing.

The names Colymbus, Colymbidae, and Colymbiformes were formerly applied to the grebes in North America and to the loons (Gavia) in Europe.

The current binomial name of the Alpine chough was formerly sometimes applied to the red-billed chough.

In his letter, Judge Harhoff, 64, who has been on the tribunal since 2007, said that in two cases Judge Meron, a United States citizen who was formerly an Israeli diplomat, applied "tenacious pressure" on his fellow judges in such a way that it "makes you think he was determined to achieve an acquittal".

This correction process was formerly based on a number of corrections which were applied in a kind of linear summation.

The developer, New York's Millennium Partners, is applying this formula to the building at 50 Central Park South that was formerly the St . Moritzand to projects in Boston, Washington, San Francisco and Miami.

Salish was formerly a native name for the Flathead alone; by the mid-20th century, however, it was more often broadly applied to the entire group.