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The first Christians were known as the Nazoreans (not to be confused with Nazarenes), and the Ebionites were a direct offshoot from them.

It was Mr Ho, one of Taiwan's most influential business people, who decided to start PVI in 1992 as a technology offshoot of its parent.

The British and Irish folk rock (or electric folk ) sound started out as an offshoot of the North American.

At least one is the offshoot of an outdoor-recreational-gear manufacturer.

It's just an evolutionary offshoot of TDD in which the word "test" is replaced by the word "should. "

The Dutch West India Company was an offshoot of the Dutch East India Company, which funded Henry Hudson's voyage to North America in 1609.

More than half the market is now in the hands of Alipay, an offshoot of Alibaba, China's eBay-derived online market.

The fiercer of the Palestinian movements, Hamas, is an offshoot of the Brotherhood.

His Nation of Islam represented a cultish offshoot of a venerable American movement, black nationalism.

A more useful offshoot of absolute purchasing power parity is relative purchasing power parity.

Some argue that sex selection is less a result of families disliking girls, and more an offshoot of them feeling a need for a son.

Authorities are evacuating more tourists and residents from a remote offshoot of the Grand Canyon.

The Assad regime is dominated by the Alawite minority, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, but the country is overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim.

The leading Palestinian Islamist movement, Hamas, an offshoot of the Brotherhood, has been delighted by Mr Mubarak's fall.

Chronologically, RABS emerged more or less as an offshoot of efforts to implement isolator technology in the mid-1990s.

The new Freedom and Justice Party, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, says the 1979 treaty should be "revised" .

However, we want to spend a bit more time on star schema optimizer support, which is an offshoot of XPS.

It thus appears that rhetoric is an offshoot of dialectic and also of ethical studies.

Most Syrians are Sunni Muslim, but Assad and the ruling elite belong to the minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

Indigenous to Italy, the blood orange is an offshoot of the sweet oranges that came from Asia in the 1400s.

US President Barack Obama says the al-Qaida offshoot was behind the attempted bombing.

Moreover, the uncertainty that is an unfortunate offshoot of the dramatic changes is further conducive to Iran's interests.

The United States is also home to more than 200 offshoot "Confucius Classrooms" .

It even had an offshoot running to Haifa in what is today Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea.

Is located in Jimo, east of the Yellow Sea, the northern offshoot of Laoshan, peak elevation of 223 meters.

A descendant of a race or family; an offshoot.

And then there's funky: another London pirate continuum offshoot that's unshackled itself from the real.

The overseas edition of the People's Daily is a smaller offshoot of the domestic edition.

Volunteer vacations have a "green" offshoot: trips that aren't just about doing good but doing good for planet Earth.

Its major rival is News Limited, an offshoot of Murdoch's News Corp.

When I put a test branch in the tube, I aligned the zero degree mark on one compass to match up with the first offshoot branch.

In 2006 its Saudi offshoot raised 2. 55 billion riyals ($680m) to build a metropolis on the Red Sea coast, 100km north of Jeddah.

In 2004 a second offshoot followed in China.

An offshoot of America's Cleveland Clinic, for example, is being built in Abu Dhabi.

VW and its Audi offshoot sold 358, 500 cars in America last year.

The feared Killer Bees youth gang is an offshoot of the Tribesmen, the country's only ethnic motorcycle gang

Analysis for the mainstream variation of island and offshoot in the Heilongjiang River

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