Sentence examples for are founded around from inspiring English sources

Most styles of yodeling are founded around three notes - the triad.

The gateway town of Lençóis was founded around 1844 as a mining centre and although it doesn't have the impressive monuments and churches of the colonial Portuguese towns in Brazil's hinterland, it has its full share of peaceful charm.

Macao was founded around 1557.

The Promised Day Brigade (PDB) was founded around November 2008.

Shelter was founded around then and campaigning was already going on, so the two went together.

The Barakaat Group was founded around 1989 by a former banker in Somalia, Ahmed Nur Ali Jumale.

The Company was founded around the discovery of a novel type of adult stem cell, the Early Lineage Adult (ELA) stem cell.

"We were founded around the kitchen table, and we're are still around the kitchen table," she says.

His reference to 1753, the year the British Museum was founded around Hans Sloane's personal collection, is hardly coincidental.

When he died in 1753, the British Museum was founded around his 71,000 "curiosities" and 50,000 books and manuscripts.

It was founded around a 12th-century castle where Christopher II died (1332) and where Christian V was married (1667), and it was chartered in 1539.