Sentence examples for founded on ignorance from inspiring English sources

Another official spoke of a "paranoia partly founded on ignorance.

"Gaddafi's regime was founded on ignorance," he says.

The 19th century's optimism about finding a Northwest Passage through the pole was founded on ignorance about climate change.

"Such dogmatism, founded on ignorance and expressed with a blast of hot air, irked me," she writes.

Although terrorism is a legitimate concern, Governor Pat McCrory's attempt to bar Syrians from my home state of North Carolina is founded on ignorance -- ignorance of the federal government's screening processes and ignorance of Syrian culture.

And your task as a journalist is to convey what he just said so that the reader or viewer will believe that he did say what he just said, and will be able to take the measure of it, to know how it was wrong, or incoherent, and why; to know that it was founded on ignorance and falsehood, and in what ways.

I think it was a decision founded on complete ignorance and I am absolutely amazed they have stuck to it".

I think it was a decision founded on complete ignorance and I am absolutely amazed they have stuck to it". Snow said he suspected a BBC bureaucrat had "panicked" and he called upon Mark Thompson to put the situation right.

Newton was amused last year by the hand-wringing over his decision to hire an African-American basketball coach, though he learned a long time ago that the hysteria surrounding race is often founded on fear, myth and ignorance.

And when I did, it became embarrassingly clear: my fear and hatred was -- like all bigotry -- founded on nothing more than ignorance.

In the meantime, Stephen Harper is responding to reporters with claims of innocence, founded on the rock of solid ignorance and bland dismissal.