Sentence examples for was formerly believed from inspiring English sources

She told The Guardian last night: "It was formerly believed that scientists in Germany were oppressed by the Nazi regime, that there were only a few guilty people.

The name Ethernet was derived from the old electromagnetic theoretical substance called luminiferous ether, which was formerly believed to be the invisible universal element that bound together the entire universe and all its associated parts.

For this reason, it was formerly believed that the most dangerous sharks lived in waters warmer than 21 °C (70 °F) and that the risk of attack was greatest in the tropics and in the summer months.

Titian adopted the same arrangement in his portrait of a gentleman in blue (c. 1512), where the initials TV (Tiziano Vecellio) establish him as the painter rather than Giorgione, as was formerly believed.

Although it was formerly believed to be an innocuous condition, it is now considered to be a variant of atherosclerosis with predominance of calcification and a small inflammatory component [89].

It was formerly believed that the long-tailed ground roller preferred an undisturbed forest habitat, while tolerating small amounts of disturbance.

This finding was particularly striking to us because it has been formerly believed that ER stress-induced translation arrest is solely and directly mediated by PERK-dependent phosphorylation of eIF2α (ref. 6).

Further geological study needs to be strengthened in regions where the stratigraphic uplift amplitude is large and that were formerly believed to be unfavorable gas accumulation conditions, so as to find more gas resources and reserves.  .

Giraffes in Cameroon were formerly believed to belong to this subspecies, but are actually G. c. antiquorum.

Both crakes were formerly believed to be monogamous, but the male corn crake may have a shifting home range, and mate with two or more females, moving on when laying is almost complete.

Nevertheless, there are several exceptions to this rule, for example, 5S gene linkage to other repetitive gene families including 35S, small nuclear RNAs, histone genes or the trans-spliced leader (Drouin and de Sa, 1995), which were formerly believed to represent transition states between linked (typically prokaryotic) and unlinked (typically eukaryotic) arrangement.