Sentence examples for were briefly known from inspiring English sources

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With her dorky persona and helium-pitched voice, Schaal was an acclaimed stand-up before the 'Conchords' came along – in 2008 she was nominated for an If.comedy Award (as the Perrier Awards were briefly known) in Edinburgh.

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At that time, in the early 1690's, New York was briefly known as Flour City because it had a legal monopoly on the processing of flour.

Since joining Fallon, he has campaigned for Barack Obama, tweeted tirelessly about liberal causes — he has more than two million followers — and was briefly known as the Paul Revere of Occupy Wall Street.

Eirik Glambek Boe and Erlend Oye, a guitar-picking duo from Norway, inadvertently emerged as leaders of what was briefly known as the New Acoustic Movement with their 2001 debut Quiet Is the New Loud.

And the crescent-shaped Vdara Hotel and Spa in Las Vegas, designed – astonishingly – by the same architect as the Walkie Talkie, was briefly known as "Death Ray Hotel" when it opened in 2009 after guests complained a 15 sq m area of the pool deck was hot enough to singe their hair and melt plastic.

Enron, a gas-and-electricity utility that in the mid-1980s was briefly known as Enteron until it discovered that this was another term for the alimentary canal, is planning to spend up to $50m for advertisements in 1997 two years agoo America's electricity industry as a whole spent little more than $80m a year on advertising.

Yogo City was briefly known as Hoover City, after Jake Hoover.

With the completion of the freeway, a portion of the former route was briefly known as Route 21A.

The station was briefly known as HillTV until the middle of the fall 2005 semester, when the university temporarily shut the station down for a controversial entertainment episode and demanded its reform.

The group was renamed the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club in 1938, in reference to a Women's Glee Club that had gained popularity during the 1930s, and between 1944 and 1948 was briefly known as the University of Michigan Varsity Club.

They were also briefly known as Creep, recording a demo with a singer named Corey until Shaffer, Arvizu, and Silveria enlisted Brian Welch and Jonathan Davis to form the band that went on to become Korn.

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