FirstGroup originated from the deregulation of bus services in the United Kingdom, whereby private companies purchased former nationalised and municipal bus operators.

Railair services originated as a partnership between the nationalised bus operator, the National Bus Company, and the nationalised rail operator, British Rail, under the Railair Link brand name.

Both companies originated in the Eastern National Omnibus Company, founded in 1929, nationalised in 1949 and privatised in 1986.

", commonly used in the IT industry, also originated in a Dilbert comic strip.

Other compounds used to color tissue sections include safranin, oil red o, Congo red, fast green FCF, silver salts, and numerous natural and artificial dyes that were usually originated from the development dyes for the textile industry.

He originated the industry of specialized publications for radio with Modern Electrics and the Electrical Experimenter first.

Within the industry, a tiering is sometimes created among groups of networks based on whether their programming is simultaneously originated from a central point, and whether the network master control has the technical and administrative capability to take-over the programming of their affiliates in real-time when it deems this necessary — the most common example being national breaking news events.

Later this usage seems to have been forgotten, leading some to believe the term originated in the electronics industry: " The phrase smoke test comes from hardware testing.

Thus, Trotsky argues, because a majority of the branches of industry in Russia were originated under the direct influence of government measures — sometimes with the help of government subsidies — the capitalist class was again tied to the ruling elite.

Among those reasons the report cites: Vilsack has repeatedly demonstrated a preference for large industrial farms and genetically modified crops ; as Iowa state governor, he originated the seed pre-emption bill in 2005, effectively blocking local communities from regulating where genetically engineered crops would be grown ; additionally, Vilsack was the founder and former chair of the Governor's Biotechnology Partnership, and was named Governor of the Year by the Biotechnology Industry Organization, an industry lobbying group.

The plant originated in southeast Brazil and was exported as part of the pet industry to be used in aquariums and garden ponds.

The first comprehensive proposal to deregulate a major industry in the United States, transportation, originated in the Richard Nixon Administration and was forwarded to Congress in late 1971.

Legends of squonks probably originated in the late nineteenth century, at the height of Pennsylvania's importance in the timber industry.

The carpet industry has remained large, but mostly uses designs that originated before 1700, and competes with machine-made imitations both locally and around the world.

The " Steelmark " logo, originated by U. S. Steel and used by AISI to promote the steel industry.

Chinese accounting standards are unique because they originated in a socialist period in which the state was the sole owner of industry.

The term originated to describe misinformation tactics in the computer hardware industry and has since been used more broadly.

Venture capital, as an industry, has originated in the United States, and American firms have traditionally been the largest participants in venture deals, and the bulk of venture capital has been deployed in American companies.

It originated as a trade association for members of the dyeing industry but is now mainly a charitable institution.

Several of the local settlements originated around coal mines, an industry which is being redeveloped in today's open cast sites.

The term originated within the airline industry referring to airlines with a lower operating cost structure than their competitors.

The University sought attorneys ' fees in all the related actions, a declaration by the court that the University had the right to distribute 32V, a comprehensive advertising campaign by USL and AT & T to create industry awareness of the proportion of SVR4 code which had actually originated in the University's BSD software ( by the University's own account, possibly more than had actually been written by AT & T itself ), and an injunction preventing AT & T, USL, or their agents from making false claims about the provenance of the University's code.

While the technique of slip cueing had originated in the broadcast industry several years before, it was Francis Grasso who changed the style by releasing the next song on beat, creating a continuous flow of music for a nightclub dance floor.

AAI Corporation originated as Aircraft Armaments, Inc. in August 1950 by six aviation and defense industry professionals.

After the Wall Street Crash of 1929 Olaya Herrera was given special faculties and dictated some economic reforms that developed at some level the industry and manage the debt generated by the war with Peru which originated in 1932 when the Amazonian port of Leticia was taken over by invading Peruvian soldiers.

Though the term fixed-base operator originated in the United States, the term is becoming more common in the international aviation industry as business and corporate aviation grows.

The Dartmoor tin mining industry is thought to have originated in pre-Roman times, and continued right through to the 20th century.

Likewise, and equally fascinating, is the news that such unlikely synonyms as `` pratakku '', `` sweathruna '', and the tongue-twister `` nnuolapertar-it-vuh-karti-birifw- '' all originated in the same village in Bathar-on-Walli Province and are all used to express sentiments concerning British `` imperialism ''.

The style of New England cookery originated from its colonial roots, that is to say practical, frugal and willing to eat anything other than what they were used to from their British roots.

Particularly common law is in England where it originated in the Middle Ages, and in countries that trace their legal heritage to England as former colonies of the British Empire, including India, the United States, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Canada, Malaysia, Ghana, Australia, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Singapore, Ireland, New Zealand, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Cyprus, Barbados,

Many of these maxims had originated in Roman Law, migrated to England before the introduction of Christianity to the British Isles, and were typically stated in Latin even in English decisions.

Modern Canadian football is widely regarded as having originated with a game played in Montreal, in 1865, when British Army officers played local civilians.

The meetings originated with the leaders of the self-governing colonies of the British Empire.

Flag of the Hudson's Bay Company which originated from its days as a British trading company.

One heresy, Pelagianism, was originated by a British monk teaching in Rome: Pelagius lived c. 354 to c. 420 / 440.

The only surviving pre-Roman account of Scotland originated with the Greek Pytheas of Massalia who circumnavigated the British islands ( which he called Pretaniké ) in 325 BC, but the record of his visit dates from much later.

The term " Middle East " may have originated in the 1850s in the British India Office.

strips were originated for the British market in the 1960s ( some Gold Key material was also reprinted ), the most notable for Lady Penelope comic, which launched in January 1966.

The United Kingdom is also responsible for several dependencies, which fall into two categories: the Crown dependencies, in the immediate vicinity of the UK, and British Overseas Territories, which originated as colonies of the British Empire.

Many sources claim that the 10th century Egyptian astronomer Ibn Yunus used a pendulum for time measurement, but this was an error that originated in 1684 with the British historian Edward Bernard.

Because its early forms originated in England in the Middle Ages, this is particularly true in Anglo-American legal traditions and in former colonies of the British Empire, while also playing a role in some countries that have mixed systems with significant admixtures of civil law.

Near the end of the short election campaign, there appeared in the press the text of a letter purporting to have originated from Grigory Zinoviev, head of the Executive Committee of the Communist International ( Comintern ) and Arthur MacManus, the British representative to ECCI, and addressed to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

The ideas of collective guilt and collective punishment originated not with the US and British people, but on higher policy levels.

In modern usage, the term " Governor General " originated in those British colonies which became self-governing within the British empire.

These dialects originated from migrations from the St. Lawrence valley into the area, from 1697 onwards well into the early 19th century, with contributions of refugees from Acadia in the 18th century, both before and after the British conquest of 1759.

The Mopans originated in Belize, but most were driven out to Guatemala after the British assumed control from the Spanish in the late 18th century.

The team originated that year in Vancouver, British Columbia and relocated to Memphis in 2001.

He argues that the Haida people of the Queen Charlotte Islands originated carving of the poles, and that the practice spread outward to the Tsimshian and Tlingit, and then down the coast to the tribes of British Columbia and northern Washington.

Michael Linton originated the term " local exchange trading system " in 1983 and for a time ran the Comox Valley LETSystems in Courtenay, British Columbia.