He outlined the general story direction (and various natural offshoots) of events to take place in the MMORPG game.

For years, I figured this was a natural offshoot of the nesting instinct.

Archipelago was a natural offshoot of Mr. Putnam's brokerage firm.

"It's a natural offshoot of our search business, if you will," Mr. Semel said in an interview.

"For us it was such a natural offshoot of our lives and of our marriage, " the Rev. Ann Coburn said in an interview last week.

The notion of steam cars seems quaint today, but they were a natural offshoot of an age when much of industry was powered by pressurized steam.

This was originally in prehistoric times a natural offshoot of the Nile which created a lake to the west during high floods.

Communicating with patients via computer, he said, seems a natural offshoot for practicing medicine in the 90's.

A natural offshoot to farming was the raising of horses and the Burr family contributed to much of Commack's early reputation as horse country.

Its training programme is a natural offshoot of its main task, which is to supply family videos through its three rental shops.