Sentence examples for founded it as from inspiring English sources

The bureau will be hosted on the Guardian site but will retain its independence under Niknejad, who founded it as a blog in November 2008.

Libourne (Leybornia) takes its name from Roger de Leyburn, English seneschal of Gascony, who founded it as a bastide (fortified town) in 1270.

Henry Charles Harrod founded it as a grocery store in 1849.

Although he founded it as a sanity-saving enterprise, it is not a hobby, he says.

Composers have flocked to this festival since 1975, when Morton Feldman founded it as an American version of the Darmstadt festival in Germany.

He then directed the Learning Institute of North Carolina for Gov. Terry Sanford, who founded it as an experiment for black and white children.

Shane Smith co-founded it as an edgy youth magazine in 1994.

To take a biotech from founding it as an offshoot of Yale to an international pharma company is pretty unique". Also unique: Their understanding of markets.

Though it was founded as early as 1903, it traces its roots back to much older synagogues.

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.