Sentence examples for were formerly called from inspiring English sources

The LCB strains were formerly called CB strains.

The units were formerly called, respectively, gauss and oersted.

Here the Selli dwelt and those who were formerly called Graeci and now Hellenes.

Some showers have been named for an associated comet; e.g., the Andromedids were formerly called the Bielids, after Biela's Comet.

An initial project was the cutting of a small canal (the Al-Ismāʾīliyyah) from the delta along the Wadi Tumelat, with a southern branch (now called the Al-Suways al-Ḥulwah Canal; the two canals combined were formerly called the Sweet Water Canal) to Suez and a northern one (Al-ʿAbbāsiyyah Canal) to Port Said.

They were formerly called the untouchables (because their touch, believed by the upper castes to transmit pollution, was avoided), but the nationalist leader Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi referred to them as Harijan ("Children of God"), a name that for a time gained popular usage.

ompF626 was formerly called cmlB20.

ptsI7 was formerly called ctr-7.

The course was formerly called Energy Resources.

It was formerly called Wegener's granulomatosis.

This strain was formerly called WGAsuc26.