Sentence examples for principal founders from inspiring English sources

Lal nominated fellow JD member V.P. Singh, one of the principal founders of the party, to lead a UF coalition government as prime minister.

He was one of the principal founders of the Tokyo Fine Arts School, opened in 1887, and a year later became its head.

Bulldozers leveled a neighboring clapboard house to make way for a new restaurant named after Flagler and Julia Tuttle, the city's principal founders.

José Lutzenberger, one of the principal founders and most outspoken advocates of the environmental movement in Brazil, died Tuesday in Pôrto Alegre.

In contrast to Bacon's view, the philosopher and mathematician René Descartes (1596 1650), one of the principal founders of modern thought, developed a form of rationalism that was more immediately influential.

This method was provided by another of the principal founders of modern chemistry, A.-L. Lavoisier (1743 94): a chemical element is a substance that cannot be further analyzed by known chemical methods.

A principal founder of the American Political Science Association in 1903, he served as its president in 1904 05.

Johannes Sturm (1507 89), the principal founder, directed the Strasbourg Gymnasium for more than 40 years.

Daniel Baker, a Presbyterian missionary, was the principal founder of Austin College in 1849.

The principal founder was Friedrich Engelhorn (1821 1902), a former goldsmith and manufacturer of coal-tar dyes.

Singh was the principal founder in 1988 of the Janata Dal (JD), a merger of three small centrist opposition parties.