be founded

Example Sentences

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“But I don’t believe any state should be founded and centered upon an ethnic or religious identity.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2024

"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

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

So much of these feelings of luck and survivor's remorse occur because, while America may be founded on a Judeo-Christian belief system, there is one deity nearly all of us relate to: television.

From Salon • May 17, 2021

The ceremony took place fifteen miles from Macondo in the shade of a gigantic ceiba tree around which the town of Neerlandia would be founded later.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez