Sentence examples for founded as it is from inspiring English sources
One day, I asked Cucinelli whether he thought St. Benedict would approve of his business, founded as it is upon providing the least needy of people with the most unnecessary of objects.
In dissent, Justice Kagan wrote that she was confident that "the majority's decision — founded as it is on an unfounded assumption — would have no real-world meaning or application".
But countries rarely go gently: what seems more likely is that the next stage of the crisis represents a crisis of confidence in the very system which, founded as it is on trust rather than measurable yardsticks, has no reliable, inbuilt way of righting itself.
Like other nations, this one doesn't have an entirely glorious history, founded as it is on that hardware pointed at Native Americans, then slaves, then striking workers, civil rights activists, immigrants and global justice protesters.
Patients' concerns about reinfection were well founded as it is known that around 10% of surgical revisions for infected hip prosthesis become reinfected within 2 years.
A city founded as it was on the primal dread of damnation and the need to find a mystic river to salvation.
Dance Connecticut got a rocky start to life, founded as it was on the ashes of the popular Hartford Ballet, which disbanded last year.
"This body, founded, as it was, out of the ashes of war and genocide; dedicated, as it is, to the dignity of every person, must recognize the reality that is lived by both the Palestinians and the Israelis," he said.
Assisi, St. Francis' home, to take an example from this beautifully illustrated book, was recognized long before Christianity as a blessed locale, founded as it was by the Umbri tribe 865 years before Rome existed.
Others argue that while feminism and humanism have a similar ideal at their core – equal treatment for all – humanism is not concerned with gender politics, is rooted in patriarchy (founded as it was by white European men), and as Judith Butler writes, "supposes that there is just one single idea of what it is to be human".
"It was patched and piebald then," Adams said of the founding, "as it is now, ever was and ever will be, world without end". To which we may, I think, safely add: Amen.
