be founded
Example Sentences
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“Like the ordinary municipal laws, it may be founded upon our consent or that of our representatives; but it derives its ultimate obligatory force as a law, and not as a compact.”
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2023
"If there was an illiquidity premium, it has to be disclosed and it has to be founded in empirical evidence."
From Reuters ● May 5, 2023
As a youth activist, she helped put up flyers for groups such as Fierce, an organization fighting gentrification that happened to be founded by some of Lovell’s youth media cohorts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2023
Any settlement must be founded on love and respect: love and respect for LGBTQ+ people and their families within and beyond the Church, love and respect for those who take different views.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2022
If a colony was to be founded, the colonists carried with them coals from the hearth of the mother-city with which to kindle the fire on the new city’s hearth.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
